[Fwd: HIT: Read Across America: Part 1]

["Richard and Pat. Barnhardt" <barnhardt@NS.GEMLINK.COM>]

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I have received my final state--thank you Idaho! They write:"A book
recommendation that my students made is Downriver by Will Hobbs."  My
students have enjoyed that book in VA as well.
        I have been asked by many to resubmit my earlier hits.  Here goes.
Pat Barnhardt, Librarian
Grymes Memorial School
Orange, VA
barnhardt@ns.gemlink.com

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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 23:13:27 -0400
From: "Richard F. Barnhardt" <barnhardt@ns.gemlink.com>
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Thanks to everyone for your greetings and book suggestions.  I'm still
looking for Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana,
Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North
Dakota,Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,Utah, West
Virginia,and Wyoming,=20


Arkansas - B. Greene's "Summer of My German Soldier" and "Philip Hall
likes me.  I reckon maybe."

California - "Patty Reed's Doll" describes the trials of the Donner
expedition, "The Ballad of Lucy Whipple".  It is an action packed story,
told from the perspective of a young girl, about the Gold Rush in
California

Colorado - One great book about our state is Ralph Moody's
"LittleBritches" about growing up on a ranch in Littleton (now a suburb
of Denver) when it was "out in the middle of nowhere".  Read BEARSTONE
by a local author in Durango by the name of Will Hobbs.

Connecticut - "Ferryboat" by Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro is the story
of a trip across the Connecticut River.

D.C. - "The People of Pineapple Place" by Anne Lindbergh and
also Esther Brady's "A Wish on Capitol Hill."

Florida - I really like "The Talking Earth" by Jean Craighead George.=20
It is set in the Everglades.=20
"Foxy" by Helen (?) Griffiths  "Someone Was Watching" by David
Patneaude  (not a 3rd choice, but part of story is in FL) "Stranded" by
Ben Mikkaelsen (sp)  "Panther Glade"  by Helen Cavanagh.

Guam-Anything by T.K. Cassidy

Hawaii - Graham Salisbury's "Under the Blood Red Sun."

Indiana-I would recommend any books by Gene Stratton Porter.  When I was
in elementary school, my parents gave me the books FRECKLES and GIRL OF
THE LIMBERLOST by this author, and I read them over and over again.

Iowa- "The Haunting of Cabin 13" by Kristi D. Holl for 4th-6th grade.
This takes place in northeast Iowa at Backbone State Park.  There are
several stories about Kate Shelley who prevented a train from
crashing when a bridge went out near her home near Boone, Iowa.

Kansas - A wonderful book to read is "The Wind Wagon" by Celia Barker
Lottridge.  The story took place over 100 years ago in Oskaloosa, KS.=20
Sam Peppard built a wind wagon and sailed it from Oskaloosa, KS to
within 80 miles of Denver. For Primary grades, there is "Climbing Kansas
Mountains" by George Shannon and "Wagon Wheels" by Brenner.  For 4th
through 8th grades there is "Jayhawker" by Patricia Beatty,  "Stealing
Home" by Lois Ruby, "High Wind for Kansas" by Calhoun (an oldie),=20
"Promised Land" by Holland, "Jim-Dandy" by Hadley Irwin, "The Monument"
by  Gary Paulsen, "The Sodbuster Venture" by Talbot,  "A Royal Pain" by
Ellen Conford, "Freedom Trail" by Jeanne Williams (another oldie), and
"The Van Gogh Caf=E9" by Cynthia Rylant.  The last one is on our state
William Allen White Award reading list this year and is set in a
fictional Kansas town.  It has two mistakes about Kansas in it.  Can you
find them? On the adult level, Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is about
a western Kansas multiple murder.
Picture Book: "Climbing Kansas Mountains" by George Shannon.  Novel (Gr.
5-8): "Steal Away Home" by Lois Ruby - Quaker family in the 1850's in
Lawrence, Kansas area, become involved in the Underground Railroad -
good read-aloud.

Thanks again!
Pat Barnhardt, Librarian
Grymes Memorial School, Orange, VA
gmschool@summit.net

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