Monday, October 26, 2009

Books for Book Groups -- Tentative

Don't read these for you individual book.  We'll read them in small groups.  Notice which ones you think you'd be interested in -- and which are at your (SRI) reading level.

1.  The Legend of Jimmy Spoon 790L -- Pioneer life,  white boy from Salt Lake City who goes to live with the Shoshoni Tribe
2. Jimmy Spoon and the Pony Express 820L --
3.  Sacajawea 840L -- The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is told to Sacajawea's son by herself and William Clark
4.  Anpao: An American Indian Odyssy 880L -- A story of a young warrior's mystical search for his own destiny.
5. Tucket's Travels: Francis Tucket's Adventures in the West, 1847-1849 -- Mr. Tucket   830L --
6.  Charlotte's Rose  680L - Handcart pioneers
7.  Numbering All the  Bones  600L -- The Civil War is nearing its end and 13-year-old Eulinda  (a slave whose brother is fighting in the Union army) faces an uncertain world. civil war, prisoners of war, Clara Barton
8.  Sounder 900L -- African-American sharecroppers in the South
9.  Steal Away . . . to freedom  690L   -- A TEENAGE ORPHAN TRANSPLANTED FROM VERMONT TO VIRGINIA AND HER SLAVE DECIDE TO ESCAPE THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPTIVITIES.
10.  Elijah of Buxton  1070L  -- The first child born in a community established for escaped slaves in Canada.
11.  The Bronze Bow 760L -- THE TORMENTED JOURNEY OF AN ISRAELI BOY'S ALL-CONSUMING HATRED FOR THE ROMANS TO HIS ACCEPTANCE AND ...
12.  The Breadwinner    630L  -- Story of a girl struggling to survive in war torn Afghanistan. . .