Bibliography of Let's Connect Book Club
Let's Connect Book Club
National Connection Book Discussion Series
Biography Series
Session 1 (April 1999):
Eleanor Roosevelt, Doris Faber
El Chino, Allen Say
Wilma Unlimited, Kathleen Krull
Session 2 (May 1999):
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman, Ann McGovern
Session 3 (June 1999):
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr
Teammates, Peter Go1enbock
Ragtime Tumpie, Alan Schroeder
Read With Me Series
Session 1 (September 1999):
Humpty Dumpty and other Nursery Rhymes, Lucy Cousins
Millions of Cats, Wanda Gag
Eentsy Weentsy Spider, Joanna Cole
Session 2 (October 1999):
Big Red Barn, Margaret Wise Brown
Freight Train, Donald Crews
Good Dog, Carl, Alexandra Day
Session 3 (November 1999):
Lady With the Alligator Purse, Nadine Bernard Westcott
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear, Nancy Carlstrom
Jamberry, Bruce Degen
Selections chosen by Pam and Roberta for continued discussion:
February 2000:
Charlie Parker Played Bebop, Chris Raschka
Duke Ellington, Andrea Davis Pinkney
Richard Wright and the Library Card, William Miller
March 2000:
Oh, The Places He Went: A Story about Dr. Seuss, Maryann N Weidt Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Anderson
April 2000:
Story of Jumping Mouse, John Steptoe
John Henry, Julius Lester
Anansi the Spider, Gerald McDermott
May 2000:
Wings, Jane Yolen
John Henry: An American Legend, Ezra Jack Keats
Rumpelstiltskin, Paul O Zelinsky
June 2000:
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Randall Jarrell
Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story, Robert D San Souci
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China, Ed Young
July 2000:
Molly Bannaky, Alice McGill
Dear Benjamin Banneker, Andrea Pinkney
Starry Messenger, Peter Sis
Let?s Connect Book Club Selections?September 2000 ? May 2002
September 2000:
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes, Floyd Cooper
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes
October 2000:
Talking to Faith Ringgold, Faith Ringgold
November 2000:
Aunt Harriet?s Underground Railroad in the Sky, Faith Ringgold
Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold
December 2000:
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss
January 2001:
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me, Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart, Jayne Pettit
February 2001:
Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin? Cowboy, Andrea Pinkney
My Name is York, Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
March 2001:
Boss of the Plains, Laurie Carlson
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer, Shana Corey
April 2001:
I Have Heard of a Land, Joyce Carol Thomas
Crazy Horse?s Vision, Joseph Bruchac
May 2001:
Voices of the Alamo, Sherry Garland
Smoky Night, Eve Bunting
June, July and August 2001:
Fairness:
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People?s Ears, Verna Aardema
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,
Judith Viorst
Greed:
The Talking Eggs, Robert D San Souci
Mufaro?s Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock, Eric A Kimmel
Courage:
Lon Po Po, Ed Young
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
Abiyoyo, Pete Seeger
Dreams:
Fanny?s Dream, Carolyn Buehner
Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman
Wagon Wheels, Barbara Brenner
Cleverness:
Flossie and the Fox, Patricia C McKissack
Wiley and the Hairy Man, Molly Garrett Bang
Dr DeSoto, William Steig
Coping:
Ira Sleeps Over, Bernard Waber
Everett Anderson?s Goodbye, Lucille Clifton
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
Determination:
Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jeanette Winter
The Dancing Man, Ruth Lercher Bornstein
The Very Best of Friends, Margaret Wild
September, October, November and December 2001
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
January 2002
Library Dragon, Carmen Agra Deedy
Librarian From the Black Lagoon, Mike Thaler
February, March, and April 2002
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J Gaines
May 2002
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper?s Daughter, by Alan Govenar
October 2003
Nobody Owns the Sky by Reeve Lindbergh
Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grimes
Follow the Dream by Peter Sis
November 2003
Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown
Uncommon Traveler by Don Brown
December 2003
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
January 2004
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (New Reader's Press excerpt version) by Maya Angelou
February 2004
Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan
March and April 2004
The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner
May 2004
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
June 15 and 22, 2004
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
June 29 and July 13, 2004
Across Five Aprils byi Irene Hunt
July 27, 2004
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
For more information about the Let's Connect Book Club, please contact:
Roberta Koscielski
Branch Librarian
Peoria Public Library?Lakeview Branch
1137 West Lake
Peoria, IL 61614
(309) 497-2200
RobertaKoscielski@ppl.peoria.lib.il.us
Pam Ritter
Director of Adult Programs
Common Place Family Learning Center
514 South Shelley
Peoria, Il 61605
(309) 674-3315
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