A community grows together in this acclaimed book by a Newbery Medal-winning author. A determined young girl plants six bean seeds in a trash-filled lot in Cleveland and something truly magnificent grows. Thirteen different voices come together to tell one amazing story about a vacant lot that transforms a neighborhood. A 1998 ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ‘School Library Journal’ Best Book and ‘Publishers Weekly’ Best Book, (1997)..
Category: Places
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam
As a young boy growing up in the hills of central Vietnam, Nhuong’ s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. When bullies harassed Nhuong, Tank sent them packing. When a wild tiger threatened the entire village, Tank defeated it. He led the herd and adopted a lonely puppy. Tank was Nhuong’ s best friend. Nhuong gives readers a glimpse of himself when he was their age, and tells a thrilling story of how he and Tank together faced the dangers of life in the Vietnamese jungle which was their home..
The Great Migration: An American Story
In 1940 the American artist Jacob Lawrence chronicled this journey of hope in a flowing narrative sequence of paintings. They are divided between the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. After more than 20 years, The Phillips Collection mounted the first exhibition of all 60 paintings, touring museums around the country..
Stevie
Finding Buck McHenry
In a squeeze play, Jason is moved to his Little League’s not-yet formed expansion team of rejected players. Jason has found a sponsor and a couple of good key players, and the school custodian, Mack Henry, has agreed to be their coach. Soon Jason wonders if the baseball-wise Mr. Henry could be the former great pitcher Buck McHenry..
The Year of the Panda
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
The author lived in a hamlet in the central highlands of Vietnam, surrounded by jungle on one side and a river on the other, where he and the villagers encountered animals daily–some easily tamed, others, like tigers and wild hogs, which were terribly dangerous. ‘This first-person narrative brims with life’.–School Library Journal..
Child of the Owl
This spellbinding tale of the contradictions and special heritage of growing up Chinese-American is set in early 1960s Chinatown in San Francisco. Child of the Owl ‘combines chiseled fantasy with the anxiety of growing up poor and nonwhite’.–Kirkus Reviews. Winner of the Boston GLobe-Horn Book Award for Fiction..