Linda Sue Park
Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others.
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The
...6) Seesaw Girl
The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.
Jade Blossom never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court. In seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not leave home until she marries.
She is enthralled by her older brother's stories about trips to the market and to the ancestral grave sites in the mountains, about reading
...7) Trust No One
8) Yum! Yuck!
Disaster strikes at a street market when a dog overturns a spice cart and showers everyone's ice cream with pepper - Yuck! As the story unfolds in pictures, readers explore the emotions and sounds that children make in different languages. By the end, everyone is yelling — "Hurray!" Awards: ALA Notable Children's Books, Bank Street College of Education's Best Books of the Year (Outstanding Merit), Bookbuilders of Boston New England Book Show
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