Here are some great books for older elementary kids and adolescents for March. I meant to post about some of them in, um, September, but things have been sort of crazy lately:
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman (a Red Scare novel)
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton (magical and actually makes you want to learn more about the history of printing, if you can imagine!)
Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy (another excellent family redemption story by the author of Indigo Blue)
Drita My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard (a sweet story of multicultural friendship)
Fires of Jubilee by Alison Hart (a truly excellent historical novel that takes place in the time immediately following the Civil War - the best novel I have ever read from that period)
Can't Get There From Here by Todd Strasser (a gritty novel about homeless teens that reads a little too much like a Scared Straight diatribe - you kids better not be homeless because look at what will happen to you! - which is stupid, since no one wants to be homeless, but still a decent read otherwise)
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