Bud, Not Buddy
ISBN 9780385323062
Regular price $23.99 Sale price $21.50/
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!
Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
An excerpt from the book available at the publisher's website here.
Recommended for Grade 5 and up.
Hardcover, 288 pages. 5.7" x 8.6" x 1" thick.
Printed in the Unites States by Delcacorte Press.
Reviews:
“[A] powerfully felt novel.” —The New York Times AN ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS
AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK
AN IRA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER
NAMED TO 14 STATE AWARD LISTS
“The book is a gem, of value to all ages, not just the young people to whom it is aimed.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again.” —Voice of Youth Advocates, starred review
Dragonwings
ISBN 9780064400855
Regular price $12.50/
by Laurence Yep
Newbery Honor Book Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep takes readers on an adventure-filled journey across the world.
Inspired by the story of a Chinese immigrant who created a flying machine in 1909, Dragonwings touches on the struggles and dreams of Chinese immigrants navigating opportunity and prejudice in San Francisco.
Moon Shadow only knows two things about his father, Windrider: he lives in San Francisco and used to craft beautiful kites.
One day shortly after his eighth birthday, Cousin Hand Clap arrives with a letter from Windrider asking Moon Shadow to join him in San Francisco. When Moon Rider arrives in America he learns that his father makes a living doing laundry and dreams of building a flying machine just like the Wright Brothers. But making this fantastical dream a reality proves to be no easy task, as intolerance, poverty, and even an earthquake stand in their way.
Recomended for readers 10-14 years (Grades 5-9).
Softcover, 336 pages.
Harper Collins. Printed in the United States.
The publisher, Harper Collins, has a Teacher's Guide to accompany the book at their website here.
ALA Notable Children’s Book
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Phoenix Award (Children’s Literature Association)
IRA/CBC Children's Choice
Library of Congress Children’s Books
Carter G. Woodson Book Award
New York Times Outstanding Book
Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book
Jane Addams Book Award Honor Book
School Library Journal Best Book
International Reading Association Children's Book Award
Horn Book Fanfare
Swift Rivers
ISBN 9780802777034
Regular price $11.99/
by Cornelia Meigs
Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.
Recommended for young readers ages 10 years and up. Perhaps ideal for 12 - 14 years of age.
A Newbury Honor book.
Softcover, 288 pages.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
ISBN 9780312380076
Regular price $12.99/
by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with its wonders and dangers, fascinates the 13-year-old boy, and he sets out to make the best of what it has to offer him.
First published in 1932, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze was one of the earliest Newbery Medal winners. Although China has changed since that time, Young Fu's experiences are universal: making friends, making mistakes, and making one's way in the world.
Recommended for young readers ages 10-14 years of age.
Softcover, 320 pages.
Published by Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan.
Printed in the United States.
“It is a story full of adventure that I believe you will enjoy as much as I did. Young Fu won the Newbery Medal, not only because it was historically and culturally accurate, but because it was and is a really good read.” —Katherine Paterson, Newbery Award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved