Mrs. Ackerman

 Book Reviews 1

American Slave, American Hero by Laurence Pringle
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle
Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard
The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood by Barb Bentler Ullman
Fall of the Amazing Zalindas by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin
Into the Firestorm by Deborah Hopkinson
Is my Dog a Wolf? by Jenni Bidner

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 American Slave, American Hero by Laurence Pringle
In 1803, when Lewis and Clark chose the best men for their dangerous mission 
to explore the West, they chose York; but York had no choice since he lived 
as a slave.
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 Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Third-grader Clementine has a kind heart and an inquisitive mind that 
frequently land her in trouble when her bright ideas have unforeseen 
consequences.
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 Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle
When Martha Tom, a Mississippi Choctaw, gets lost picking blackberries, 
Little Mo, a slave, leads her home.  This is the start of their friendship 
and a journey to freedom.
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 Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard
When ten-year-old Drita arrives in New York from her war-torn country, 
Kosovo, her new teacher pairs her with Maxie, a cocky, trouble-making 
classmate, to do a special project - and the two girls do not even speak the 
same language.
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 The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood by Barb Bentler Ullman
While struggling with her parents' divorce and a move to the country, fourth-
grader Willa Jane helps her older neighbor Hazel May, who keeps seeing 
something in the wood.
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 Fall of the Amazing Zalindas by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin
Wiggins, Ozzie and the rest of the young Baker Street Irregulars are joined 
by Sherlock Holmes and the mysterious gypsy girl, Pilar, to solve the case 
of a murdered family of tightrope walkers in London, England in 1889.
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 Into the Firestorm by Deborah Hopkinson
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Dray's dream of escaping a Texas work farm for San 
Francisco comes true, only to become a nightmare of rolling earth, crumbling 
buildings and a race with friends to survive a maze of horrifying fires.
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 Is my Dog a Wolf? by Jenni Bidner
From licking faces to howling, dogs show that they are more like their wolf 
ancestors than people realize.
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