WILLIAM ALLEN
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WILLIAM ALLEN
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Master List: Grades 3-5 2006-2007
Borden, Louise. The A+ Custodian. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2004.
Synopsis: The students and teachers at Dublin Elementary School make banners, posters, and signs for their school custodian to show how much they appreciate him and all the work he does.
Van Leeuwen, Jean. Cabin on Trouble Creek. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2004.
Synopsis: In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and younger siblings.
Hesse, Karen. The Cats in Krasinski Square. New York, Scholastic Press, 2004.
Synopsis: Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
Newman, Leslea. Hachiko Waits. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
Synopsis: Professor Ueno’s loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor unexpectedly dies while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies.
Hannigan, Katherine. Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World. New York, Greenwillow Books, 2004.
Synopsis: Fourth grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family’s apple orchard, until circumstances force her parents to sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Clements, Andrew. The Last Holiday Concert. New York, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 2004.
Synopsis: Life is usually easy for popular sixth grader, Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all his leadership skills to unite the other students.
Beard, Darleen Bailey.Operation Clean Sweep. New York,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Synopsis: In 1916, just four years after getting the right to vote, the women of Umatilla, Oregon, band together to throw the mayor and other city officials out of office, replacing them with women.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. The President’s Daughter. New York, Delacorte Press, 2004.
Synopsis: A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt’s early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901.
Clements, Andrew. The Report Card. New York, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 2004.
Synopsis: Fifth grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grade are not important, things begin to get out of control.
Scillian, Devin. S is for Sunflower: a Kansas Alphabet. Chelsea, MI, Sleeping Bear Press, 2004.
Synopsis: Brief rhymes for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by longer explanatory text, features of Kansas.
Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Thunder From the Sea. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2004.
Synopsis: Just when his dreams of being part of a family and having a dog seem to be coming true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new island home and the impending birth of a new baby will change everything. Set in Newfoundland in 1929.
Grimes, Nikki. What is Goodbye? New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 2004.
Synopsis: Alternating poems by a brother and sister convey their feelings about the death of their older brother and the impact it had on their family.