National Poetry Month

April is fast approaching and we are going to celebrate National Poetry Month and reading poetry for fun. This blog is starting by a short quiz. I may add other questions as we go along.
Good poetry is like sandburs in that bits and pieces will stick to me long after I've finished with the poem. I find verses from the Psalms, humorous pieces and rhyming aphorisms appear unbidden like unintentional RSS feeds from my mind. Of course, committing poetry to memory doesn't hurt the process.

I need to go back through the old lists here and identify those about poetry. One is all about finding poems about trees--better than the Val Kilmer poem.
Let me know your favorite. Let's enjoy them together.

A Challenge

My latest post at the In Season Christian Librarian is a response to the Book A Month Challenge's February Challenge. One of the reasons to subscribe to this site is that it emphasizes more than just current books. This site is going on the links to this page.

Happy Birthday

Three writers known for their children's books were born on this day : Madeleine L'Engle, Louisa May Alcott, and C.S. Lewis. from New Morning Daybook What books have you read by any of these authors? Were any favorites of yours or were they required for a class?

D.E.A.R. list

D.E.A.R stands for Drop Everything and Read! These books are award winners from the past few years.

The books on these pages represent a few of the award books we have in the library.

While on vacation have a DEAR day and read for fun!

Pulitzer Prizes
A $10,000 prize goes to the winner of the outstanding writing for the year. While most of the prizes relate to journalism, at least two are given each year to fiction and nonfiction

Applebaum, A. Gulag: A History
HV8964.S65 A67 2003

Bird, K. American Prometheus :
The Triumph and Tragedy of
J. Robert Oppenheimer
QC 16.O62 B57 2005

Coll, S. Ghost Wars DS371.2.C63
2004

Elkins, C. Imperial Reckoning:
The Untold Story of Britain’s
Gulag in Kenya
DT433.577.E45 2005

Fischer, D. Washington’s Cross
ing E263.P4 F575 2004

Hahn, S. A Nation Under Our
Feet E185.2.H15 2003

Oshinsky, D. Polio: An American
Story RC181.U6 O83 2005

Robinson, M. Gilead
PS3568.O3125 G55 2004

National Book Award
Considered one of the highest awards for literature for American Authors, it covers nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and children’s literature. Top prizes are $10,000 for each category.

Birdsall, J. The Penderwicks
PZ7.B51197 Pe 2005

Didion, J. The Year of Magical
Thinking PS3554.I33 Z63 2005

Jones, E. The Known World
PS3560.O4813 K58 2003—a
finalist

Newbery Awards
Awarded to the top national best children’s book published in America

Bartoletti, S. Hitler Youth:
Growing up in Hitler’s
Shadow DD253.5.B37 2005

Caldecott Awards

Awarded to the top national best illustrated children’s book published in America

Sidman, J. Song of the Water
Boatman and Other Pond
Poems PS3569.I295 S66
2005

Golden Kite Award
Presented for outstanding children’s writers by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and

Illustrators
Freedman, R. Children of the
Great Depression
HQ792.U5 F738 2005

Jurmain, S. Forbidden
SchoolHouse PZ2317.C73
J87 2005—honor book

Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal

Created in honor of Dr. Seuss.

Rylant, C. Henry Mudge and the Great Grandpas PZ7.R982 Hearmg 2005

Carnegie Medal
Given for outstanding books for children or youth written in English and published in the UK. The Carnegie Medal will celebrate its 70th birthday in 2007.

Chambers, A. Postcards from
No Man’s Land PZ7.C3557
PO 2002

Cooper , H. Pumpkin Soup
PZ7.C78555 Pu 1999

Doherty, B. Dear Nobody
PZ7.D56947 De 1994

Wojciechowski, S. The Christ
mas Miracle of Jonathan
Toomey PZ7.W8183 Ch
1995


Michael L. Prinz Award

A relatively new award, this medal identifies outstanding Young Adult literature

Almond, D. Skellig PZ7.A448 SK1999

Chambers, A. Postcards from No Man’s
Land PZ7.C3557 PO 2002 (Many
books receive more than one award

"Out in the West..."

Writing about the Western United States has been a popular subject for a authors since James Fenimore Cooper — wrote about his west (New York!) We can no longer “go West” in the same manner as one hundred years ago, —except in the novels and diaries of
writers.

Fiction

Berger, T. Little Big Man PS3552.E719 L5 1985

Brouwer, S. Evening Star PS3552.R6825 E94 2000

Brouwer, S. Thunder Voice PS3552.R6825 T48 2001

Cather, W. Death Comes for the Archbishop PS3505.A87 D4 1927

Cather, W. O Pioneers! PS3505.A87 O2 1992

Crane, S. “The Blue Hotel,” and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” In His Complete Short Stories PS1449.C85 A12

Enger, L. Peace Like a River PS3555.N422 P42 2001

Grey, Z. Riders of the Purple Sage PS3513.R6545 R5 1980

Guthrie, A. B. The Big Sky PS3513.U855 B5 1982

Harte, B. The Outcasts of Poker Flat. PS1829.O9

Jones, W. Edge of Two Worlds PZ7.J735 Ed

Kingsolver, B. The Bean Trees PS3561.I496 B44 1998

Kirkpatrick, J. All Together in One Place PS3561.I712 A79 2000

L'Amour, L. The Chreokee Trail (Not in Library)


Leonard, E. The Hot Kid PS3562.E55 H66 2005

McMurtry, L. Comanche Moon PR3563.A319 C66 1997

McMurtry, L. Lonesome Dove PS3563.A319 L6 1995

McMurtry, L. Streets of Laredo PS3563.A319 S7 1993

Portis, C. True Grit PS3566.O663 T7

Reid, M.. The Boy Hunters OR Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo PZ7.R273 Boh6

Richardson, H. L. The Devil’s Eye PS3568.I3175 D48 1995

Sandoz, M. Horsecatcher (not in Library)

Schaap, J. Touches the Sky PS3569.C33 T68 2003

Schaefer, J. Shane (not in Library)

Stanley, D. & Karas, G. Saving Sweetness PZ7.S7869 Sav 1996

Swarthout, G. Bless the Beasts and Children PS3537.W3743 B5

Non Fiction

Alter, J. Extraordinary Women of the American West CT3207.A58 1999

Calvert, P. Great Lives:The American Frontier F590.5.C35 1997

Cox, C. The Forgotten Heroes: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers E185.925 .C65 1993

DeVoto, B. The Journals of Lewis and Clark F592.4 1953

Stegner, W. The Sound of Mountain Water. F591.S84

Women Who Changed their World

First Century BC

Abbott, J. Cleopatra DT92.7.A18

1st Century AD

Brock, A. G. Mary Magdalene, the first Apostle BS2485.B73 2003

17th Century

Dorsey, E. Pocahontas E90.P6 D7

Grant, C. Queen and Cardinal: A memoir of Anne of Austria and her relations with Cardinal Mazarin DC124.3.G7

Winship, M. The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson BX7148.M4 W552005

18th Century

Southan, B. C. Jane Austen.PR4037.S59 1968

19th Century

Bennett, P. Emily Dickinson:

Woman Poet PS1541.Z5 B44 1990

Gollaher, David. Voice for the Mad: the life of Dorothea Dix HV28.D6 G65 1995

Marks, E. Colette PQ2605.O28 Z73

Nightingale, Florence. Letters.
UH347.N6 N5

Tomalin, C. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstoncraft PR5841.W8 Z84

Wilson, Dorothy. Lone Woman: The story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor R154.B623 W5

Twentieth Century

Burgess, Alan. The Small Woman. [Gladys Aylward] BV3427.A9 B8


Brooks, P. The House of Life QH31.C33 B7 [Rachel Carson]

Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea-Wind QH92.C3 1952

Chukovskaya, Lydia. The Ahkmatova Journals. PG3476.A324 Z58213 2002

Earhart, A. The Fun of It. TL540.E3 A32


Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl DS135.N6 F73313 1995

Goodall, Jane. 40 Years at Gombe QL31.G58 L56 1999

Harpaz, B. The Girls in the Van. [Hilary Clinton] E837.C55 H37 2001

Keller, Helen..Selected writings HV1624.K4 A27 2005

Kirk, C. J.K. Rowling PR6068.O93 Z739 2003

Learning, B. Katharine
Hepburn PN2287.H45 L43 1995

Lillard, A. Montessori: The Science behind the Genius LB1029.M75 L53 2005

Montessori, Maria. The
Montessori method LB775.M7613 1964a

Parks, Rosa My Story. F334.M753 P37 1992

Porter, David. Mother Teresa: the early years BX4406.5.Z8 P67 1986

Rosenstiel, L. Nadia Boulanger: A life in music ML423.B42 R7 1982

Fleming, Candace. Our
Eleanor E807.1.R48 F67 2005

Scharf, l. Eleanor Roosevelt: the first lady of American liberalism E807.1.R48S34 1987

Skaerved, M. Dietrich PN2658.D5 S54 2003

Immigrant Adventures

The Issues and Research

Chen, H. Chinatown no More
F128.9.C5 C45 1992

Dinnerstein, L. Natives and
Strangers. 2nd ed.
E184.A1 D49 1990

Harris, N. The New Untouchables
HD6300.H37 1995

Kivisto, P. & Blanck, D. American
Immigrants and their Generations
E175.5.H3 A44 1990

Kyle, D. and Koslowski, R. Global
Human Struggling JV6201.G56
2001

Scott, F. D. , ed. World Migration in
Modern Times JV6021.S36

Toro-Morn, M. & Alicea, M.
Migration and Immigration
JV7035.M542 2004

Trueba, H. T. Healing
Multicultural America (Mexican
immigrants)
LC2687.C2H43 1993

Ungar, S.J. Fresh Blood:The New
American Immigrants.
JV6455.5.U54 1995

The following are personal
narratives. Even the fictional accounts are largely drawn on true events.
Across the Oceans

An Na A Step from Heaven
PZ7.N1243St 2001 (Korea)

Bunting, Eve. Dreaming of America
PZ7.B91527 Ds 1999
(Europe)

Conley, E.A. The Chosen Shore
JV6465.C73 2004 (Mixed)

Fadiman, A. The Spirit Catches
You and You Fall Down
RA418.5.T73 F33 1997
(Hmong)

Gallo, D. ed. First Crossing:
Stories about Teen Immigrants
PZ5.F924 2004 (Mixed)

Gundisch, K. How I became an
American
PZ7.G967 Ho 2001(Europe)

Hest, A. When Jessie Came
Across the Sea PZ7.H4375
WF 1997 (Europe)

Hyun, P. In the New World
DU624.7.K67 H983 1995
(Korea)

Nugent, W. Crossings
JV6454.N84 1992
(Europe)

Winter, J. Klara’s New World
PZ7.W754Kl 1992
(Europe)

Across the Land

Aldrich, L. Overland Route to
California F593.A38 1966

Conley, R. Mountain Wind
song
PS3553.O494 M68 1992

Harrell, B. LongWalker’s
Journey PZ7.H234Lo 1999

McGlashan, C. History of the
Donner Party. F868.N5 M28
1966

Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the
Divide
PZ7.L3274 Be 1983

Manly, W. Death Valley in ‘49
[1849] F868.D2 M28
1966

Murphy, Jim. Across America
on an Emigrant Train
PR5495.M79 1993

Stanley, J. Hurry Freedom
F866.S813 2000

Turner, A. Red Flower Goes West
PZ7.T8535 Rf 1999
Woodruff, Elvira Dear Levi:
Letters from the Overland Trail
PZ7.W86 O6 Dc1994