Bill Cain
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book, in graphic novel format, describes the Battle of the Bulge, which took place in Belgium and Luxembourg where U.S. forces struggled for ten days to fight off the attack of a large German Panzer force.
2) Clover
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Clover is a precocious ten-year-old African American girl living with her widowed father, Gaten on the family peach orchard in the deep south. Shortly after remarrying, her father passes away leaving her in the sole custody of his new bride; a woman whom Clover barely knows.
3) Sounder
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of various people along the road.