MoreThan Anything Else By: Marie Bradby
This book is about a little boy named Booker, who wants nothing
more than anything to learn how to read. He works all day and his body aches and
his mind is constantly thinking about hunger. Booker listens to the newspaper
man and dreams of the day he will teach people to read in the entire county. One
day Booker goes to the newspaper man and he helps to teach him to read by
showing him the letters in his name.
The Memory Coat By: Elvira Woodruff
This story is a about a family moving to the United States. A girl named Rachel and her family is forced to flee because they are Jewish. Grisha,Rachel’s cousin almost did not make it through Ellis Island because he had a cut on his eye.The doctors mark check marks on the coats that are for the people now allowed pass through Ellis Island.Rachel turns the jacket inside out so that Grisha is able to pass through. Grisha’s mother had made the coat for him just before she died. Reading this book to children will educate them on Ellis Island and immigration.
Baseball Saved Us By: Ken Mochizuki
This book takes place World War II . A little boy and his family were secluded to a camp because of their nationality and culture. Things in the camp were very tense which is why the little boy’s father decided that they needed to build a baseball field. They put together two different teams. Explore how children adapted during tough circumstances during World War II.
Pop's Bridge By: Eve Bunting
Robert's father is working on the Golden Gate Bridge. Robert and his friend Charlie, whos father is painting, go and watch them at Fort Point everyday. Charlie feels that his father has more dangerous job because he is a skywalker. Until one day Charlie and Robert's dad are caught in a bad predicament from the scaffolding pulling away from the bridge.