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| Mother, Help Me Live Author: Lurlene McDaniel. Pages: 136. Price: $3.50. Publisher: Bantam. Mother, Help Me Live is the story of 15-year-old Sarah McGreggor,
who is fighting a battle with leukemia. I was drawn to this book
because I thought it would be the story of Sarah's search for a
cure. My thoughts were wrong. Even though the book gave an idea of what a leukemia patient
goes through, I fo | |
| Nightjohn
Author: Gary Paulsen.
Publisher: Delacorte.
Price: $14.
Pages: 92. `It was a holocaust. It was every bit as bad as what happened to
Jews in Europe, and nobody acknowledges it, " said author Gary
Paulsen about slavery in recent interview with Children's Express. His book Nightjohn is a portrayal of slave life based on the
experiences of one 12-year-old girl, who was one of Thomas | |
| Approximately 5,000 Chinese children are adopted by U.S. citizens every year. One of those children not only was able to revisit her roots in China but also wrote a book about it. Ten-year-old Ying Ying Fry wrote "Kids Like Me in China" after visiting the orphanage in Changsha, in Hunan province, where she spent her early months. In the book, she describes her trip, including her visit to the orph | |
| Lady Daisy Author: Dick King Smith. Publisher: Delacorte Press. Price: $14. Pages: 131. Imagine that one day you and your little brother go to your
grandmother's house and start looking in her attic. You leave to
get something and soon come back only to find that your brother is
talking to a little doll. That does not seem so strange, until you
realize that the doll is talking back! In Lady Da | |
| Somewhere in the Darkness
Author: Walter Dean Meyers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 168
Price: $14.95 Aman walks the streets of a New York City neighborhood and tries
to ignore the pain in the leg that he drags behind him. Neighbors
lean out of their windows and stare at the tall slender man whose
bony arms look like sticks under his shirt. He finds the building he
is looking for and st | |
| Indiana schools and libraries have long sought ways to encourage children to read for pleasure. Every year since 1974, the Indiana Library Federation has sponsored the Young Hoosier Book Award program, which gives students in kindergarten through eighth grade an opportunity to vote for the books they like best. Each school year, the Young Hoosier Book Award Committee nominates 20 books in each of | |
| Fearless Elizabeth Author: Francine Pascal. Pages: 73. Price: $2.75. Publisher: Bantam. Have you ever felt discourged when someone made fun of you?
This is how Elizabeth Wakefield, a character in Fearless Elizabeth,
by Francine Pascal, feels. The boys in Elizabeth's class make fun
of her because she wants to try out for the soccer league. This
book tells about Elizabeth and her hardships while | |
| The Witch's Eye
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Price: $13.95.
Pages: 179 pages.
Publisher: Delacorte Press. The Witch's Eye is a mystery/horror novel that tells the fantastic
story of how two friends, Lynn and Mouse, try to defeat a mean, old
witch. Mrs. Tuggle, the witch, lives next door to Lynn Morley and her
best friend, Marjorie "Mouse" Beasley. Mrs. Tuggle causes a lot of
trouble fo | |
| Hey Little Walter and Other Prize-winning Plays from the 1989 and
1990 Young Playwrights Festivals
Author: Edited by Wendy Lamb - Introduction by Nancy Quinn
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Pages: 236 Ever finish reading a book and find yourself with the hollow
sensation that you may have missed something incredibly important?
After the final page of Hey Little Walter and Other Prize-winning
Pla | |
| Baby Author: Patricia MacLachlan. Publisher: Delacorte Press. Pages: 132. Price: $13.95. In Baby, author Patricia MacLachlan shows the real meaning of love
in a family and how to express the loss of a loved one. She shows the
reader what it is like to be 12, confused, and dealing with the
emotions of pain and sorrow. She tells the story through 12- year-old Larkin, who doesn't
understand the d |
