Posted in booktalks 4-5, frontier, history on Apr 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Set in 1880, Noah pushes his Aunt Dora, who is in a wheelchair as they explore the prairie and learns to read in the process.
Music: Clarinet Solo from Soundzabound
Posted in booktalks 6-8, frontier on Dec 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Billy, 15, is on a quest to find the father has never known.
Posted in booktalks 6-8, frontier on Dec 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Billy, 15, is on a quest to find the father has never known.
Posted in booktalks 6-8, frontier on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Forrestine writes her memoirs of living her childhood among the Tenth U.S. Calvary - a regiment of black troops with white commanders - of which her father was an officer. Many experiences recounted, such as keeping her pet mice warm inside her mother’s gloves, a soldier being smoked instead of embalmed because the army lacked the appropriate supplies, encounters with Quannah Parker and Geronimo.
Posted in booktalks 6-8, frontier on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Forrestine writes her memoirs of living her childhood among the Tenth U.S. Calvary - a regiment of black troops with white commanders - of which her father was an officer. Many experiences recounted, such as keeping her pet mice warm inside her mother’s gloves, a soldier being smoked instead of embalmed because the army lacked the appropriate supplies, encounters with Quannah Parker and Geronimo.
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