Nasreen’s Secret School. This book is very good and interesting. It talks about a young lady who has to go to school in secret. In their country the girls are not allowed to go to school because the soldiers don't want the ladies to learn about the world and to be educated. I think this book woul...
Booklist starred (June 1, 2013 (Vol. 109, No. 19))Grades K-3. Masterful picture-book biographer Winter (The Watcher, 2011) offers an elegant, accessible portrait of expressive artist Henri Matisse. She tackles his childhood, law career, and establishment as a painter of note in the first eight pa...
Follow the Drinking Gourd is a historical fiction book about slavery. An old white sailor named Peg Leg Joe wanted to help free the slaves. He would help the slave owner around the plantation but then at night he would teach the slaves who worked on the plantation a song that would lead them to f...