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1 LIBRARY TEMPLATE Literature set during the time period selected and displayed: Information and Inspiration provided via nonfiction books, movies, documentaries, websites, photos, music, etc. of the time period: Booktalks and Bibliographies offered to classroom teachers as well as students: Reach out to teachers and offer to collaborate with them to support their focus on a given time period (in this case the turn of the twentieth century): Art and Artifacts of the time period displayed in the library with books, movies, photos, games, etc.: Reach out to students with games, food, and computer links to videos and music to bring a time period to life : Yesterdays should and will be remembered by providing all the above!

2 BOOKTALK for SUMMER OF LOST AND FOUND Nell Dare was looking forward to her fun summer plans in New York City. Then her father suddenly leaves town, leaving few clues as to where he went or why and Nell s botanist mom has to drag her all the way to Roanoke Island for a research trip. While Nell misses the city and her dad it doesn't take long for her to become enthralled with the mysteries of Roanoke. She s enthralled by the centuries-old grapevine her mother is studying, but especially the story of the Lost Colony: the 116 men, women, and children who came from England to live on Roanoke in 1587 and disappeared without a trace. When Nell meets Ambrose, a friendly but eccentric boy who works as a historical re-enactor, they begin to explore the island for clues as to what really happened to the Lost Colony. But they have to stay clear of Lila, a local girl who seems to know everything about the area s history and makes it clear that Roanoke is her territory. As Nell and Ambrose discover tantalizing evidence, peculiar things begin to happen like important artifacts disappearing. Someone or something is keeping watch over their quest for answers. But just when they are close to finding the truth, a huge storm threatens to make them both lost forever... Texts for comparison: (NF) The Lost Colony of Roanoke by Jean Fritz (NF) A History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory 1600 by Joy Hakim (NF) Roanoke, the Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple (Fiction) Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose (Fiction) Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone (Fiction) Cate of the Colony by Lisa Klein (Fiction) Will Sparrow s Road by Karen Cushman

3 LIBRARY TEMPLATE COMPLETED for Summer of Lost and Found Literature set during the time period selected and displayed: Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose; Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone; Cate of the Colony by Lisa Klein; Will Sparrow s Road by Karen Cushman Information and Inspiration provided via nonfiction books, movies, documentaries, websites, photos, music, etc. of the time period: There are many books on the people and history of Roanoke Island to choose from (see the bibliography in Summer of Lost and Found for some suggestions). Roanoke Island s history is well documented online: Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Algonquian Indians of North Carolina, Inc. Fort Raleigh: Time Team America, PBS. The Search for the Lost Colony. North Carolina Digital History. Booktalks and Bibliographies offered to classroom teachers as well as students: A booktalk for Summer of Lost and Found as well as a bibliography of other recommended books set on Roanoke Island or during the period of early English colonization are part of this handout. Reach out to teachers and offer to collaborate with them to support their focus on a given time period (in this case the late 1500s or early 1600s): Let them know all that you can do to support and supplement their efforts. Give them a sample of this template personalized by you. Art and Artifacts of the time period displayed in the library with books, movies, photos, games, etc.: Photographs of artifacts found on Roanoke Island and the Jamestown colony; drawings of ships of the time period (similar to ones the early colonists would have traveled on). Images and souvenirs from Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (such as glassware and reproductions of maps) or Jamestown. Reach out to students with games, food, and computer links to videos and music to bring a t ime period to life : Show films: Clips from the PBS series Time Team America Roanoke episode, as well as Jim Henson s Wilson and Ditch Digging America. Recipes: Have children make recipes from the Elizabethan or colonial time periods, such as johnny cakes or gingerbread husbands. Crafts: Have children make quill pens and practice writing in a journal. Or have students prepare a map of their community, like the early explorers produced for Roanoke Island and the surrounding area. Yesterdays should and will be remembered by providing all the above!

4 BOOKTALK for WHEN AUDREY MET ALICE First Daughter Audrey Rhodes can t wait for the party she has planned. The decorations are all set, and the pizza is on its way. But at the last minute, the Secret Service cancels the party for a security breach, squashing Audrey s chances for making any new friends. She wants to know: What good is having your own movie theater if you don t have anyone to eat popcorn with? Audrey is ready to give up and spend the next four years friendless in the White House until the night she discovers Alice Roosevelt s hidden diary. Alice was President Theodore Roosevelt's teenage daughter, and she was a White House wild child. Her diary tells all about the trouble she got into at 1600 Pennsylvania: like bringing her pet snake to parties, getting speeding tickets in her red race car, and sneaking friends into the house. Audrey spend the whole weekend exploring the White House in search of Alice-like fun (starting with the bowling alley), reading the diary, and getting into a little bit of trouble related to her clothing choices at a State dinner. Life is already more interesting, now that she has Alice. She returns to school on Monday to find out about the exciting trip to New York her class will be taking including her secret crush. When Audrey finds out that she can't go, the only solution is to let Alice guide her into how to have a life as a First Kid. WWAD What Would Alice Do? becomes Audrey's new motto. The more Audrey reads the diary and the more she acts like Alice the more fun she has... but while she tries to "eat up the world" (as Alice liked to call it) in the White House fishbowl, will she get into more trouble than she can handle? Texts for comparison: (NF) White House Kids by Susan Edwards (NF) The Roosevelt Cousins: Growing Up Together by Linda Donn (NF) What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley (NF) Mind Your Manners, Alice Roosevelt by Leslie Kimmelman (Fiction) Samantha: An American Girl by Susan S. Adler (Fiction) The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Fiction) Liberty Porter, First Daughter by Julia DeVillers

5 LIBRARY TEMPLATE COMPLETED for When Audrey Met Alice Literature set during the time period selected and displayed: Hear My Sorrow (Dear America) by Deborah Hopkinson; Meet Samantha: An American Girl by Susan S. Adler; The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly; The President s Daughter by Ellen Emerson White; Liberty Porter, First Daughter by Julia DeVillers Information and Inspiration provided via nonfiction books, movies, documentaries, websites, photos, music, etc. of the time period: There are many books on White House life to choose from, and also many on the Roosevelt family (see the bibliography in When Audrey Met Alice for some suggestions). White House history is well documented online: Or check out this CLCD booklist for the presidents: Booktalks and Bibliographies offered to classroom teachers as well as students: A booktalk for When Audrey Met Alice as well as a bibliography of other recommended books set during Alice s time period or in the White House are part of this handout. Reach out to teachers and offer to collaborate with them to support their focus on a given time period (in this case the turn of the twentieth century): Let them know all that you can do to support and supplement their efforts. Give them a sample of this template personalized by you. Art and Artifacts of the time period displayed in the library with books, movies, photos, games, etc.: Reproductions of photographs of Alice Roosevelt and sheet music for the popular songs written about her; a piece of fabric in the Alice blue color; Roosevelt campaign memorabilia (or items from other political campaigns) or political cartoons. Images and souvenirs from the White House across all decades would be perfect to include. Reach out to students with games, food, and computer links to videos and music to bring a time period to life : Show films: Clips from the Ken Burns The Roosevelts miniseries, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday; popular films about First Kids including: First Kid, Chasing Liberty, First Daughter. Crafts: Have children make simple sachets, pressed-flower art, try needlework: The American Girl Company has published books of Samantha (doll) crafts that may be useful. Or have children decorate journals of their own to start keeping. The official White House website often shares a simple holiday craft that relates to White House history; check out the White House Holidays main page in late November. Host a White House debut party with some of the foods of Alice s era, like petit fours. Research official White House recipes to bake and share. Yesterdays should and will be remembered by providing all the above!

6 BOOKTALK for WHAT THE MOON SAID It's 1930 and the beginning of the Great Depression. The world's economy is collapsing, banks are failing, and many people have lost their savings and their jobs. Esther has heard about these troubles and she has seen soup lines in her Chicago neighborhood feeding the many hungry people. But she never imagined that the bad times would touch her own family--until her father loses his job. Then, for the first time ever, fear enters her heart. And when Ma and Pa decide to leave the city to try life on a farm in Wisconsin, fear is joined by deep sadness and dread at the thought of losing her friends and not being able to see her older sisters whenever she wants. And what about her beloved Rin-Tin- Tin the Wonder Dog? Will there be a theater near the farm where she can keep up with his adventures? Will there be a library so she'll always have books to read? It turns out there won't. And to make matters worse, the farm house they move to has no electricity or indoor plumbing! In spite of everything, though, Esther discovers many good things about life on the farm, like having a dog of her own at last, and finding the perfect best friend in her new schoolmate, Bethany. Esther is happily adjusting to being a farm girl until the day Ma abruptly forbids her from being friends with Bethany anymore. Ma, who grew up in Russia, is very superstitious, and for the first time she has noticed the mole on Bethany's cheek. She says it's a sign of warning. She says that being near Bethany is dangerous! What is Esther to do? She has always done as she's told. And she has always trusted and admired Ma's ability to read signs. But Bethany is a good and dear friend. She's never been anything but kind to Esther. How can Esther hurt her by telling her Ma says she's marked and they can't be friends anymore? It's a seemingly impossible decision, but once Esther makes it, there's no turning back. Texts for comparison: (NF) Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman (NF) Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression - edited by Robert Cohen (NF) Children of the Depression - Kathleen Thompson (Fiction) Bud not Buddy --Fiction by Christopher Paul Curtis (Fiction) Esperanza Rising --Fiction by Pam Munoz Ryan

7 LIBRARY TEMPLATE COMPLETED for What the Moon Said Literature set during the time period selected and displayed to encourage further reading: Bud not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis; Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan; Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool are just a few suggestions. Information and Inspiration provided via non fiction books, documentaries, websites, photos, music, etc. of the time period: Several photos are on my website, but many more can be found on the internet. Show different aspects of life in the 1930s--soup lines, of course, but also families gathered around a radio, children playing, etc., to provide a balanced sense of the time. Books might include Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman; Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression edited by Robert Cohen; Children of the Depression by Kathleen Thompson. An interesting U-Tube site with short videos is: Booktalks and Bibliographies presented to students and teachers. A booktalk for What the Moon Said as well as a bibliography of other recommended books set during the Depression are attached to this handout. They are also available on my website. Reach out to teachers and offer to collaborate with them to support their focus on a given time period (in this case the Great Depression) Let them know all that you can do to support and supplement their efforts. Give them a sample of this template personalized by you. Art and Artifacts of the time period put on display in person or via computer links: Games, books and toys--include jump rope and chants, Jacks, yo-yo, checkers; deck of cards; clothing or pictures of clothing (Sears catalog?) Household items including Depression glassware; Radio shows they can listen to online; Rin Tin Tin film episodes they can watch; etc. (Links to radio shows and Rin Tin Tin episodes are on my website: http// Reach out to students with films, games, crafts and food to bring a time period to life : Show Films: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; The Journey of Natty Gann; Sounder; Annie, etc. Crafts: Learn to knit; Make paper airplanes and see whose flies the farthest. Research the cost of foods in 1930 and see who can plan a balanced meal for four for the least amount of money. Have a game day that includes checkers, Crazy Eights, Hopscotch; yo-yo tricks; jump rope, marbles and other games of the time. Yesterdays should and will be remembered by providing all of the above and mixing well with your own ideas!

8 BOOKTALK for COLD WAR ON MAPLEWOOD STREET It's been months since Joanna s adored brother, Sam, joined the Navy, but she misses him more than ever. Years ago, Sam had promised never to leave her, like their father had, so she d felt hurt and betrayed when he broke that promise. To hurt him back, she d promised him she wouldn t write to him, and she added that, unlike him, she wouldn t break her promise! Now she s sorry. She loves receiving his letters and she wants to write back, to ask him questions about his life at sea and tell him what was going on in her life, like Mom not allowing her to attend the first boy-girl party in her class. But pride holds her back. She had promised. Then President Kennedy appears on TV to announce the Soviet Union has been setting up nuclear weapons in Cuba. That's a huge threat to the United States! Kennedy insists the Soviets remove the weapons at once, and he sends U.S. ships to stop Soviet ships from bringing Cuba even more weapons. If the Soviet ships don t stop, the U.S. ships are to fire on them and sink them. But what if the Soviet ships fire first? And what if Sam's ship is one of the ships they fire on? Joanna is frightened, and she's not the only one. Parents, teachers, newscasters and people in countries all around the world are scared, too. Her friend Pamela Waterman s artist mother is especially distressed, although Mr. Waterman, like Joanna s mother, tells her not to worry, everything will be fine. Joanna wishes Mrs. Waterman would speak up more forcefully, but by the time she finally does, it s too late to change the destructive course already in motion for the Waterman family Meanwhile, the nightly news confirms Joanna s worst fears Sam s ship, The Pierce, is part of the blockade and a huge Soviet ship believed to be carrying nuclear weapons is heading right toward it! What will happen to Sam, and Mrs. Waterman, and Joanna and the rest of the world? Texts for comparison: Non- Fiction: Cuban Missile Crisis: To the Brink of War by Paul J. Byrne The Cuban Missile Crisis by Myra Immell The Cuban Missile Crisis by Gary Jeffrey and Terry Riley The Cuban Missile Crisis by Peter Chrisp Fiction: This Means War! by Ellen Wittlinger The Fire Eaters by David Almond The H-Bomb and the Jesus Rock by John Manderino Countdown by Deborah Wiles

9 LIBRARY TEMPLATE COMPLETED for Cold War on Maplewood Street Literature set during the time period selected and displayed: Ryan s Crossing by Jake Henderson; Where Dragons Dance by Angela Hunt; Fallout by Tod Strasser; Countdown by Deborah Wiles Information and Inspiration provided via non fiction books, documentaries, websites, photos, music, etc. of the time period: My website ( ) provides links to Kennedy s speech announcing the crisis, as well as other highlights from the week that followed, also to music, books, and general pop culture of the time. Much more can be found, including videos, photos and speeches on NF books include The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Cold War Goes Hot by Jim Whiting; The Cuban Missile Crisis by Charlie Samuels; Thirteen Days/Ninety Miles: The Cuban Missile Crisis by Norman Finkelstein Booktalks and Bibliographies offered to students and teachers. A booktalk for Cold War on Maplewood Street is available on my website. To begin your bibliography, fiction titles are cited above under Literature; non-fiction titles are cited under Information and Inspiration. Reach out to teachers and offer to support their focus on a given time period (in this case the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962) Let them know all that you can do to support and supplement their efforts. Give them a sample of this template personalized by you. Art and Artifacts of the time period put on display Monopoly, Battleship, The Game of Life, Clue, Card games like Crazy Eights, Barbie dolls, and yo-yo s, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books, plus some advertisements of the day for kids and adult fashions. Have a computer pre-set to my website with its links to videos such as Elvis first tv performance, the Beatles first tv performance; American Bandstand, popular songs and dances of the time, President Kennedy s speech announcing the Missile Crisis and news clips from the days that followed. Show telephones with their cords and dials and contrast to cell phones of today, plus , FB, etc. Typewriter in contrast to a laptop. Reach out to students with movies, crafts & other programming to enhance the time period Show Films: The Missiles of October (tv 1974); PBS s video: Three Men go to War Feature games and activities popular in the early 60 s--teach yo-yo tricks, marbles, and board games/ contrast to today s video games. Teach dances like the twist, stroll, cha-cha, etc. Gather recipes for popular meals (casseroles were popular, as well as jello molds) and for popular snacks of the time (for example Rice Krispies trests and S mores.) Provide samples or make on site. Yesterdays should and will be remembered by providing all of the above and mixing well with your own ideas!

10 Recommended Historical Fiction for Middle-Grade Readers Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 1290s England Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac Late 1400s Northeast U.S. Pedro s Journal: A Voyage with Christopher Columbus by Pam Conrad Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose 1587 Roanoke Island Summer of Lost and Found by Rebecca Behrens 1587 Roanoke Island--and in the present day Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone 1607 James Town Stowaway by Karen Hesse 1768 round-the-world voyage Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson 1793 Philadelphia Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelia Cornelissen 1838 Trail of Tears Nora Ryan s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff 1845 Ireland The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich 1847 Lake Superior The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson 1854 London cholera epidemic The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Civil War New England Bull Run by Paul Fleischman Civil War Virginia Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder Post-Civil War Virginia

11 Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes Post-Civil War Louisiana May B. by Caroline Starr Rose Late 1870s Kansas One Came Home by Amy Timberlake 1871 Wisconsin Much Ado About Grubstake by Jean Ferris 1888 Colorado The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly 1899 Texas When Audrey Met Alice by Rebecca Behrens 1901 (Alice Roosevelt) --and the present--in the White House The Teacher s Funeral by Richard Peck 1904 Indiana Blufton: My Summers with Buster by Matt Phelan (Graphic Novel) 1908 (and forward) Michigan Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop 1910 Vermont Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson 1912 Massachusetts Labor Strike Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson 1918 Iowa The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty G. Birney 1923 Missouri Witness by Karen Hesse 1924 Vermont Ghost in the Glass House by Carey Wallace 1920s seaside town Better to Wish by Ann M. Martin 1930s Maine What the Moon Said by Gayle Rosengren 1930 Wisconsin & Illinois

12 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse 1930s Oklahoma Every Day After by Laura Golden 1930s Alabama Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan 1930 Mexico and California Al Capone Does My Shirts (and its companions) by Gennifer Choldenko 1935 Alcatraz Island Odin s Promise by Sandy Brehl WWII Norway Boy at War (and its sequels) by Harry Mazer 1941 Pearl Harbor Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner (Graphic Novel) 1941 California The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone 1941 Maine When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park Japanese-occupied Korea Hidden: A Child s Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier, et. al. (Graphic Novel) 1942 Paris Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff 1942 New York Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff 1949 Oregon The Paper Boy by Kristin Levine 1950s Illinois (McCarthy era) The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine 1958 Arkansas Paperboy by Vince Vawter 1959 Memphis Cold War on Maplewood Street by Gayle Rosengren 1962 Chicago

13 Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts 1963 Mississippi The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 1963 Alabama Glory Be by August Scattergood 1964 Mississippi One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia 1968 California Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata Vietnam War, Vietnam Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai Vietnam War, Saigon to Alabama Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai contemporary Star in the Forest by Laura Resau contemporary