Entranced by the paintings of the unconventional artist Vincent van Gogh, for whom her mother is working as a housekeeper, Claudine is saddened when the townspeople turn against him. 1888 Arles, France.
KEY: jP = Picture Books; jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers; jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers; JF = 5th Grade and Up
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Dionetti, Michelle | PAINTING THE WIND Entranced by the paintings of the unconventional artist Vincent van Gogh, for whom her mother is working as a housekeeper, Claudine is saddened when the townspeople turn against him. 1888 Arles, France. |
1996 | unpaged |
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Johnson, Jane | MY DEAR NOEL The Story of a Letter from Beatrix Potter England 1893 A letter from Beatrix Potter to a young friend who is ill marks the origin of her famous tales. |
1999 | unpaged |
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McCully, Emily Arnold | POPCORN AT THE PALACE In the mid-1800's Maisie Ferris and her father travel from Galesburg, Illinois to England to introduce the American phenomenon of popcorn. |
1997 | unpaged |
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McCully, Emily Arnold | POPCORN AT THE PALACE In the mid-1800's Maisie Ferris and her father travel from Galesburg, Illinois to England to introduce the American phenomenon of popcorn. |
1997 | unpaged |
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Rosenstock, Barb | THE NOISY PAINT BOX The colors and sounds of Kandinsky's abstract art. |
2014 | unpaged |
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Hopkinson, Deborah | A BOY CALLED DICKENS 1824. London. Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. |
2012 | unpaged |
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Nichol, Barbara | BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS 1822-1825, Vienna. The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration. |
2004 | unpaged |
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Bedard, Michael | GLASSTOWN 1829+ English moors. A brief, fictionalized account of the daily lives of the Brontes, told from the point of view of Charlotte. |
1997 | 38 p. |
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Cooper, Susan | VICTORY A high-seas adventure that follows the stories of an 11-year-old girl in the present day, and an 11-year-old boy in 1803 serving in the English Royal Navy aboard the HMS Victory,commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson. |
2006 | 186 p. |
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Front, Sheila | NEVER SAY MACBETH The Globe Theater's performance of shakespeare's great tragedy, Macbeth, becomes a farce when a young apprentice forgets to heed one of the theater's supersitions and utters the name Macbeth. |
1990 | unpaged |
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Garfield, Leon | THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF ADELAIDE HARRIS An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by a well-meaning passersby. |
2001 | 177 p. |
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Giff, Patricia Reilly | NORY RYAN'S SONG While they never had much, Nora ("Nory") Ryan's family had always managed to scrape together a living as farmers. Then the Irish Potato Famine comes, and Nory must be creative and brave to help her family survive. |
2000 | 148 p. |
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Kirwan, Anna | VICTORIA MAY BLOSSOM OF BRITANNIA In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period. |
2001 | 189 p. |
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Lasky, Kathryn | BROKEN SONG companion to NIGHT JOURNEY In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered. |
2005 | 154 p. |
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Mack, Tracy and Michael Citrin | SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE BAKER STEET IRREGULARS The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas 18889. The ragamuffin boys known as the Baker Street Irregulars help Sherlock Holmes solve the mysterious deaths of a family of circus tightrope walkers. |
2006 | 259 p. |
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Pushkin, Alexander | THE SNOW STORM 1811.A frantic young bride is accidentally married to a snow covered stranger seeking shelter from a Russian winter storm. |
1983 | 37 p. |
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Rabin, Staton | BETSY AND THE EMPEROR "Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Napoleon Bonaparte!" Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have a most unusual house guest: Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France and the most feared man on earth. Once lord and master to eighty-two million souls, now in 1815, Napoleon is a captive of the British people. Stripped of his empire and robbed of his young family and freedom, he is confine. |
2004 | 294 p. |
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Taylor, Theodore | ICE DRIFT When a 50-foot-high iceberg crashes into their ice floe, 14-year-old Alika and his younger brother Sulu are separated from land and home. Over the next six months, alone on the massive floe, the two boys face survival in the harsh Arctic winter, hunting for seals, avoiding polar bears, and trying to stay warm. Inspired by the true story of the 1871 polar exploration ship Polaris. |
2005 | 224 p. |