It has only been in the past few years that I have learned about the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre. In 1921 a white mob devastated the black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This picture book tells the story of the event in a straightforward manner. Older elementary school students should not have any trouble with the subject matter. The topic is not for preschoolers or kindergarten children even though it is a picture book. The candid and simple text makes the book accessible for students and the illustrations are expressive and support the story beautifully.
Published In: 2021
“The Wednesday Wars” is a historical fiction novel set in 1967. The Vietnam War is raging, all the youth want to be “flower children” and appearances are everything in a small town. Holling, a 7th grade student, thinks that his teacher Mrs. Baker hates him. On Wednesdays all the students go to either Hebrew School or Catechism. Holling the only Presbyterian in the class is left alone with the teacher that hates him. Over the course of the year a relationship between student and teacher and friendship becomes a possibility.
This children’s novel is a classic “whodunit” book. A murder has not been committed, but somebody is trying to sabotage the loon’s nest on...
