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Lexile/Reading Level
AD650L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Picture Book | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1900s
Topic
Immigration | Japanese-American | Journey
Geographic Region
Asia | Japan | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Caldecott | Caldecott Medal | Nominee | Other Awards
Format
Book | Ebook

Grandfather’s Journey

Author: Say, Allen

Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published.

At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. Winner of the 1994 Caldecott Medal, it remains as historically relevant and emotionally engaging as ever.

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Lexile/Reading Level
990L

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Date
1700s
Topic
American History | Traitors | War
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Beacon of Freedom Award | Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Nominee
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

Author: Sheinkin, Steve

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America’s first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale.

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Lexile/Reading Level
370L Recommended for Preschool-3 Grade

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Picture Book

Topic
Animals | Family Relationships | Growing | Mice, mouse or rats
Main Character
Animal
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Caldecott | Caldecott Honor | Nominee
Format
Audiobook | Book

Owen (Mouse Books)

Author: Henkes, KevinPart of a Series: Mouse Books

Owen had a fuzzy yellow blanket. “Fuzzy goes where I go,” said Owen. But Mrs. Tweezers disagreed. She thought Owen was too old for a blanket. Owen disagreed. No matter what Mrs. Tweezers came up with, Blanket Fairies or vinegar, Owen had the answer. But when school started, Owen’t mother knew just what to do, and everyone — Owen, Fuzzy, and even Mrs. Tweezers — was happy.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD870L

Genre/Category
Arts & Recreation | Biographies | Fiction | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1900s
Topic
Art | Biography | China | Culture and Traditions | Diaries | Family Relationships
Geographic Region
Asia | China | Tibet
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Caldecott | Caldecott Honor
Format
Book | Ebook

Tibet through the Red Box

Author: Sis, Peter

A father’s diary, an artist’s memoir.

By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.

While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren’t allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became interested in the red box again . . .

In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. “The Red Box is now yours,” it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father’s long absence during the 1950s.

Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter, and young son, Peter, thinking he would be home for Christmas. Two Christmases would pass before he was heard from again: Vladimir Sis was lost in Tibet. He met with the Dalai Lama; he witnessed China’s invasion of Tibet. When he returned to Prague, he dared not talk to his friends about all he had seen and experienced. But over and over again he told Peter about his Tibetan adventures. Weaving their two stories together – that of the father lost in Tibet and that of the small boy in Prague, lost without his father – Sis draws from his father’s diary and from his own recollections of his father’s incredible tales to reach a spiritual homecoming between father and son. With his sublime pictures, inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art and linking history to memory, Peter Sis gives us an extraordinary book – a work of singular artistry and rare imagination.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD480L

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1970s
Topic
Biography | Danger | Tight Rope Walker
Geographic Region
New York | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
ALA Notable Children's Book | Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Caldecott | Caldecott Medal | Nominee | Other Awards
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Author: Gerstein, Mordicai

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers From a highly respected picture book author/illustrator comes a lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. Full color. Full description

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD680L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Humor | Picture Book | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Topic
Children | Friendship | Humor | Intergenerational Relationships | Nature
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Caldecott | Caldecott Honor | Nominee
Format
Book

Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, A

Author: Frazee, Marla

When James and Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon’s grandparents’ house, it turns out that their free time spent staying inside, eating waffles, and playing video games is way more interesting than nature. But sometimes things work out best when they don’t go exactly as planned.

This Caldecott Honor-winning book is a moving and hilarious celebration of young boys, childhood friendships, and the power of the imagination, where Marla Frazee captures the very essence of summer vacation and what it means to be a kid.

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Lexile/Reading Level
680L

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Fantasy | Fiction | Historical | Stories

Topic
Culture and Traditions | Short stories
Award-Winning Book
ALA Notable Children's Book | Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Other Awards
Format
Audiobook | Book

Rainbow People

Author: Yep, Laurence

“Culled from 69 stories collected in a [1930s] WPA project, [these 20] tales are organized into sections with themes like ‘Tricksters’ or ‘Virtues and Vices,’ each with a thoughtful introduction placing the individual stories in the context of feelings and background of the original tellers. Yep’s telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection.” —K.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD760L Recommended for Preschool-3 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Topic
Intergenerational Relationships
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
ALA Notable Children's Book | Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Caldecott | Caldecott Medal | Nominee | Other Awards
Format
Audiobook | Book

Hello, Goodbye Window

Author: Juster, Norton

Little girl 6-7 visits grandparents Nanna and Poppy (one lighter skin than other) and waves greetings through their magical window. They lovingly watch stars, play games, work garden, and listen to Poppy play harmonica. Bright simple illustrations. In many languages.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-6 Grades

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Middle Ages
Topic
Death and Loss | Feuds | Friendship | Journey | Loyalty | Slavery
Geographic Region
Eurasia | Europe | Ireland | Turkey
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Format
Book | Ebook

Blood Feud

Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary

Sold into slavery to the Northmen in the tenth century, a young Englishman becomes involved in a blood feud which leads him to Constantinople and a totally different way of life.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 5-7 Grades

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mythology

Historical Time Period
Celtic Era
Topic
Arthurian-King Arthur | Celtic | Kings and Queens | Knights and Castles | Love | Loyalty
Geographic Region
England | Europe | Ireland | Scotland
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Format
Book

Tristan and Iseult

Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary

This is a retelling of an ancient Celtic story, that later became incorporated into Arthurian legends. The foreword puts it nicely into historical context. It’s an excellent story, full of excitement, adventure, friendship, love and heroic deeds. Being older than the Arthurian stories, the characters seem freer and more human without such a strict code of chivalry. Tristan is a top notch hero, prevailing over a number of dangerous enemies. True and brave, he makes deep friendships with people who would happily die for each other, as well as for the cause of honour or their country. The heart of the book, though, is the tragic, doomed love between the characters of the title.

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2nd140-500L
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