Added to my wishlist are a few books, first, On The Banks of Plum Creek – book #4, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This autobiography is a Newbery Award winner. This classis children’s novel written and published in 1937 tells about life on the prairie. A young pioneer girl and her family’s travels from Kansas to Minnesota during the early 1900’s are documented and illustrated. This book is appropriate for 4-6th grade readers and would work well in state history lesson. This story gives readers a glimpse into a long ago way of life that had hardship and reward. The story revolves mainly around her own family but from time to time new characters are introduced. There are nine books that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote to include in her series Little House Big Adventure.
Second on my wish list is a war story and Newbery award winner, The Bomb a Race to Make and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Steinkin. This children’s book begins in December of 1938. A chemist in a German laboratory made a life changing discovery in radioactive material he was working with Uranium and accidentally found that a uranium atom when friction was applied could explode. After that moment in time history was changed forever because shortly after man created the nuclear bomb that has potential to end all human life on earth. Great Britain, Russia, France, England and United States have people working with and against each other in this race to build a bomb during and WWII. Experiments and advancements are taking place at a fast pace in the United States in a city Los Alamos, New Mexico. This book is a historical account of the building of the nuclear bomb.
Bomb is a 2012 National Book Awards finalist for Young People’s Literature.
Bomb is a 2012 Washington Post Best Kids Books of the Year title. Bomb is a 2013 Newbery Honor book (Bomb)
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