A girl encounters love, friendship, and questions the true purpose of life, as well as what death truly means. Using symbolism and metaphors to represent life and death, the book celebrates everything beautiful and good in this world, which often goes unnoticed in the midst of the darkness, fear and confusion.
L'Engle's another great science fiction which combines the threats of nuclear war in today's society with the more complicated science of time travel delivering a message of a balance between things.
A historical fiction tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War which is a good book for young boys to read both to teach them history and to set them forward in life.
During the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
The Newbery Award winning Walk Two Moons is a combination of beautifully written stories that unite to provide readers with insights into their own lives and the lives of others with regard to adolescence and grief.
This Newbery Medal-winning book, exhibits a subtlety and sensitivity that will be appreciated by any youngster who feels lonely and troubled during the transition into adolescence.
It is a book about one family's struggle to survive during a time of extreme racial conflict and segregation in rurual Mississippi of the 1930s. This is the perfect literature for teaching students about the racial discrimination and cruelty that black families faced with vivid story showing the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence.
