Open Court

Grade 5

Journeys and Quests

398.2 Hod

Hodges, Margaret, 1911-. Saint George and the dragon : a golden

legend. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1984. Retells

the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which

George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that

has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings

peace and joy to the land.

629.13 Pro

Provensen, Alice. The glorious flight : across the Channel with

Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909. 1st ed. New York : Viking

Press, c1983. A biography of the man whose fascination with

flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the

English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.

B Mag

Levinson, Nancy Smiler. Magellan and the first voyage around the

world. New York : Clarion Books, c2001. Recounts the

Victoria's history-making circumnavigation of the world that

began in Spain in 1519 and concluded in 1522.

B Wri

Freedman, Russell. The Wright brothers : how they invented the

airplane. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1991.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how

they developed the first airplane.

E Ste

Steptoe, John. The story of jumping mouse.

F Kru

Krumgold, Joseph, 1908-. --and now Miguel. 1st Harper Trophy

ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1984, c1953. The young son of

a New Mexico sheep rancher longs to go with the men when

they take the sheep to the Sangre de Christo Mountains.

F Spe

Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-. Call it courage. New York :

Macmillan, c1968. Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the

story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and

proves his courage to himself and his tribe.

PB fs

Burnford, Sheila. The incredible journey.