Explore the roads, towns, homes, landscapes, and eras of many well-loved and award-winning titles with this resource. Focusing on works of Cynthia Voigt, Elizabeth George Speare, Katherine Paterson, and Marguerite Henry, it presents activities that make literature more tangible and encourages learning in social studies, history, and geography. Each chapter highlights one author, providing book summaries and details about the author's life and noting particular events and places incorporated into the stories. Narrative text, photographs, maps, drawings, and suggested reading lists are included. Settings are described both as they are now and as they were during the time period of the book. Offering a wealth of material for the upper elementary and junior high classroom, this resource will be treasured by anyone who loves children's books. Grades 5-8.
- ISBN10 1563081229
- ISBN13 9781563081224
- Publish Date 15 November 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Libraries Unlimited Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 159
- Language English