Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

2012-09-01
Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

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  • Author: Karen Hesse
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545517125
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 254

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

Witness (Scholastic Gold)

2013-03-01
Witness (Scholastic Gold)

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  • Author: Karen Hesse
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545345944
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.

Come On, Rain!

2016-01-26
Come On, Rain!

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  • Author: Karen Hesse
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545347491
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 38

Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave. "Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising and joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newberry medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.

Just Juice

1998
Just Juice

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  • Author: Karen Hesse
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780590033831
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 148

Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

2014-11-26
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

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  • Author: Jerry Stanley
  • Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN: 0307792471
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 98

Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.

Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown (Scholastic Gold)

2020-10-06
Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown (Scholastic Gold)

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  • Author: Ann E. Burg
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 1338541005
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

Ann E. Burg explores the deep class divides and social injustice behind one of America's greatest tragedies. * "Stunning, significant and sorrowful, Ann E. Burg's requiem melts history into prose... Highly recommended." -- School Library Journal, starred review "Chillingly effective." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889 was a lively, working-class factory city. Above the soot-soaked streets, an elite fishing and hunting club, built on a pristine man-made lake, drew America's wealthiest business barons. Though repeatedly urged to fix the deteriorating dam that held the lake, the club members disregarded the warnings. And when heavy rains came, the dam collapsed and plunged the city into chaos. On that fateful day, six children found themselves caught in the wreckage. The chorus of their voices--all inspired by real people--create a gripping portrait of loss and healing. Plumbing themes of class, injustice, deprivation, and the environment, Ann E. Burg summons her prodigious heart and virtuosic poetry to turn one of the deadliest tragedies in our country's history into a transcendent and hopeful work of art.

The Old Truck

2020-01-07
The Old Truck

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  • Author: Jerome Pumphrey
  • Publisher: WW Norton
  • ISBN: 1324005203
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 47

A young girl turns her imagination into action in this beautifully crafted and intricately designed debut picture book. When is an old truck something more? On a small, bustling farm, a resilient and steadfast pickup works tirelessly alongside the family that lives there, and becomes a part of the dreams and ambitions of the family’s young daughter. After long days and years of hard work leave the old truck rusting in the weeds, it’s time for the girl to roll up her sleeves. Soon she is running her own busy farm, and in the midst of all the repairing and restoring, it may be time to bring her faithful childhood companion back to life. With an eye-catching retro design and cleverly nuanced illustrations, The Old Truck celebrates the rewards of determination and the value of imagination.

The Cats in Krasinski Square

2008
The Cats in Krasinski Square

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  • Author: Karen Hesse
  • Publisher: White Lion Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781845079055
  • Category : Cats
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

The cats in Krasinski Square once belonged to someone… and so did a young girl, whose family has been destroyed by war. Even as she and her sister struggle to survive amid the war's chaos, they risk their lives for a plan to help those still trapped behind Warsaw's infamous Ghetto walls. Newbery Medallist Karen Hesse has written a beautiful story about the courage of brave young women and men who, at great risk, fought not with weapons, but with their hearts and souls. Wendy Watson's luminous paintings inspire a visual journey to a time and place that should never be forgotten.

The Key to Extraordinary

2016-02-23
The Key to Extraordinary

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  • Author: Natalie Lloyd
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545552753
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202

The highly anticipated new novel from the author of A Snicker of Magic Everyone in Emma's family is special. Her ancestors include Revolutionary War spies, brilliant scientists, and famous musicians--every single one of which learned of their extraordinary destiny through a dream. For Emma, her own dream can't come soon enough. Right before her mother died, Emma promised that she'd do whatever it took to fulfill her destiny, and she doesn't want to let her mother down. But when Emma's dream finally arrives, it points her toward an impossible task--finding a legendary treasure hidden in her town's cemetery. If Emma fails, she'll let down generations of extraordinary ancestors . . . including her own mother. But how can she find something that's been missing for centuries and might be protected by a mysterious singing ghost? With her signature blend of lyrical writing, quirky humor, and unforgettable characters, Natalie Lloyd's The Key to Extraordinary cements her status as one of the most original voices writing for children today.

Dear Mr. Henshaw

2009-10-06
Dear Mr. Henshaw

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  • Author: Beverly Cleary
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061972150
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.