Image of March: Book Three Cover Bibliographic data Title: March: Book Three Author:  John Lewis Illustrator: Nate Powell Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Publication Date: 2016 ISBN: 9781603094023 Brief plot summary This is the final book of the trilogy, where John Lewis tells of his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement during the years of 1963-1965. He starts … Continue reading Genre 6 – Book 3: March: Book Three

Image of Looking for Alaska Cover Bibliographic data Title: Looking For Alaska Author: John Green Publisher: Dutton Children's Books Publication Date: 2005 ISBN: 9780525475064 Brief plot summary Miles, a 16 year old Florida resident, moves to Alabama to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School for his junior year. He seeks the Great Perhaps. At Culver Creek Miles meets … Continue reading Genre 6 – Book 2: Looking for Alaska

Image of Hello, Universe Cover Bibliographic data Title: Hello, Universe Author: Erin Entrada Kelly  Publisher: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers  Publication Date: 2017 ISBN: 9780062414151 Brief plot summary Virgil is a shy boy. Valencia is deaf. Kaori tells fortunes and reads the stars, her sister Gen helps her. Chet is a bully. The lives of … Continue reading Genre 6 – Book 1: Hello, Universe

Image of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Cover Bibliographic data Title: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Author:  Jacqueline Kelly Publisher: New York: Henry Holt and Co. Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 9780805088410 Brief plot summary Calpurnia Virginia Tate, more commonly known as Callie Vee, is an eleven year old girl in Fentress, Texas. During the summer … Continue reading Genre 5 – Book 3: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Image of Liberty Cover Bibliographic data Title: Liberty Author:  Kirby Larson Publisher: New York: Scholastic Press  Publication Date: 2016 ISBN: 9780545840712 Brief plot summary Fish loves to invent and his neighbor, Olympia, would really love to help him, even though he resists her help. When Fish discovers a stray dog that needs his help, he … Continue reading Genre 5 – Book 2: Liberty

Image of Dead End in Norvelt Cover Bibliographic data Title: Dead End in Norvelt Author:  Jack Gantos Publisher: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux  Publication Date: 2011 ISBN: 9780374379933 Brief plot summary Jack is a 12 year old boy from Norvelt, Pennsylvania just trying to enjoy his summer vacation. When he accidentally shoots his father’s war … Continue reading Genre 5 – Book 1: Dead End in Norvelt

Image of What To Do About Alice? Cover Bibliographic data Title: What To Do About Alice? Author: Barbara Kerley Illustrator: Edwin Fotheringham Publisher: New York: Scholastic Press  Publication Date: 2008 ISBN: 9780439922319 Brief plot summary What To Do About Alice? tells the story of Alice Roosevelt by showing how she "broke the rules, charmed the … Continue reading Genre 4 – Book 3: What To Do About Alice?

Image of Girls Think of Everything Cover Bibliographic data Title: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women Author: Catherine Thimmesh ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  Publication Date: 2018 ISBN: 9781328772534 Brief plot summary Girls Think of Everything shares short biographies of 12 women inventors from Ruth Wakefield, who … Continue reading Genre 4 – Book 2: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Image of Almost Astronauts Cover Bibliographic data Title: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared To Dream Author:  Tanya Lee Stone Publisher: Candlewick Press Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 9780763636111 Brief plot summary Almost Astronauts tells the story the 13 women who attempted to become astronaut pilots during the original Mercury 7 mission to the moon and Space Race … Continue reading Genre 4 – Book 1: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared To Dream

Image of Stop Pretending Cover Bibliographic data Title: Stop Pretending Author: Sonya Sones Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: 1999 ISBN: 9780060283872 Brief plot summary This novel in verse tells the story of a young girl as she deals with the hospitalization of her older sister with manic depression. The poems follow her as she witnesses her sister’s … Continue reading Genre 3 – Book 3: Stop Pretending