Open Court

 

Grade 6

 

A Question of Value

 

                      

 

398.2 San                    

           San Souci, Robert D.  The talking eggs : a folktale from the

                American South.  New York : Dial Books for Young Readers,

                c1989.  A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following

                the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her

                greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly

                rewarded.

 

E Pat                        

           Paterson, Katherine.  The king's equal.  1st ed.  [New York] :

                HarperCollins Publishers, c1992.  In order to wear the crown

                of the kingdom, an arrogant young prince must find an equal

                in his bride. Instead, he finds someone far better than he.

 

E Pol                        

           Polacco, Patricia.  The bee tree.  New York : Philomel Books,

                c1993.  To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a

                grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree

                where the bees keep all their honey.

 

F Mil                        

           Mills, Claudia.  Dinah for president.  1st ed.  New York :

                Macmillan.  Dinah Seabrooke, now in her first year of middle

                school, struggles to become a big fish in what seems like an

                ocean--and in the process discovers the value of recycling

                and of friendship with the elderly.

 

PB f                         

           MacLachlan, Patricia.  Sarah, plain and tall.  New York :

                Charlotte Zolotow Book, c1985.  When their father invites a

                mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie

                home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and

                hope that she will stay.

 

PB f                         

           Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Lily's crossing.  New York : Delacorte,

                c1997.  During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944,

                Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her

                to see the war and her own world differently.

 

PB f                         

           Spinelli, Jerry.  Wringer.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins,

                c1997.  As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the

                violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day

                or find the courage to oppose it.

 

PB fs                        

           O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.  The black pearl.  New York : Dell,

                1977, c1967.  In claiming as his own the magnificent black

                pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea

                devil who legend says is its owner.

 

VC                            

           The value of teamwork.

 

VC                           

           Talking Eggs.

 

VC                           

           Sarah, plain and tall.