Crispin: Cross of Lead

Avi

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. Gr. 5 - 9.

Pedro's Journal: A Voyage with Christopher Columbus

Pam Conrad

The cabin boy on the "Santa Maria" keeps a diary to record his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. Gr. 3 - 5.

Wheel on the School

Meindert DeJong

The storks are brought back to their island by the schoolchildren in a Dutch village. Gr. 4 - 7.

The Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year old ophan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potter's village, and longs to learn how to throw the fragile celadon ceramics himself. Gr. 5 - 7.

Angel on the Square

Gloria Whelan

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life. Gr. 4 - 7.