Showing posts with label Caldecott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caldecott. Show all posts

Monday, December 18, 2017

Voice of Freedom: Fanny Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Book Review)


By: Charlene V. Martoni

A:\Zeta\00026840.jpgTitle: Voice of Freedom: Fanny Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Author: Carol B. Weatherford
Illustrator: Euka Holmes
Genre: Picture book, nonfiction, biography
Age Range: 11-13
Grade Level: 6-8
Lexile Level: 820L




MLA 8 Citation: Weatherford, Carol. Voice of Freedom: Fanny Lou Hammer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Candlewick Press, 2015.

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Caldecott Book: The Man Who Walked Between The Towers


The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

by Mordicai Gerstein


Lexile: 640 

Summary: This nonfiction picture book depicts real accounts of the achievements of Philippe Petit, a French man who, on an August morning in 1974, walked a tightrope wire between the roofs of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, a quarter mile above the ground.

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Gerstein, Mordicai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Brookfield, CT, Roaring Brook Press, 2003.