Instructions for the Media Log Assignment Your Name: Andrea Brown
For each of the award categories listed below, review at least two items. For the remaining items select a variety of formats-- print, audio, video, kits, 3-D items, etc. Review additional award categories at:
As you complete your Materials Order assignments and the Media Review assignments, you may wish to include those items in the log. Additional rows may be added for resources desired beyond the 25 required titles.
Newbery Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
Moon over Manifest / Clare VanderpoolDelacorte Press / A young girl, Abilene is sent to live with in Missouri while her father goes to work in the coal mine. She finds a box with intriguing keepsakes and seeks to find out what they mean and who they belong to. / None / Fiction
Gr. 5-8
History
Social Studies
Language Arts
When You Reach Me / Rebecca Stead
Wendy Lamb Books
2009 / In New York City, Miranda receives a note asking her to record future events. Three storylines appear; her mom on The $20,000 Pyramid, her best friend not speaking to her and the appearance of a laughing man. / None / Fiction
Gr.
Independence
Redemption
Friendship
Language Arts
Caldecott Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
The Hello, Goodbye Window / Norton JusterFourth Printing
2006 / A granddaughter stays with her Nana and Poppy. The window is a place for her imagination and love for her grandparents to grow. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-2
Language Arts
Feelings
Easy
The House in the Night / Susan Marie Swanson
Houghton Mifflin Co.
2008 / The pattern of the book follows the traditional poem “This is the key of the kingdom.”
A good night book for young children. /
- A Junior Library Guild Premiere Selection
- 2008 Parents' Choice Approved
- AARP Books for Grandparents
- Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008
- Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books of 2008
- New York Public Library's Children's Books 2008: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- San Francisco Chronicle's Best Holiday Books for Young Readers
- ABC Best Books for Children
- 2008 Booklist Top of the List - Youth Picture Book
- CJ 1st Picture Book Festival, Seoul, Korea
- Minnesota Book Award for Children's Literature
Gr. Pre-K-1
Language Arts
Poetry
Day/Night
Easy
Black and White / David Macaulay
Mifflin Company
1990 / Four stories that may be one story about a train, a boy, strange parents, and a Holstein cow.
This story may be interpreted differently each time is it read. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-5
Language Arts
Imagination
Parts of a story
Coretta Scott King Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
One Crazy Summer / Rita Williams-GarciaAmistad / Eleven year old Delphine and her 2 younger sisters have been abandoned by their mother and their father sends them to California to live with Cecile. Cecile is not inviting and has them eating Chinese takeout for meals. Cecile sends them to summer camp sponsored by the Black Panthers where the girls get a revolutionary education. / None / Fiction
Gr. 3-6
Language Arts
Social Studies
Friendship
Family
Social issues
Civil Rights
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal / Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Carolrhoda Books
2009 / The first African-American U.S. marshal and the most successful in American history. Bass Reeves always gets his man, dead or alive, even though some whites don’t like the idea of a black lawman. / None / Fiction
4-7
Social Studies
Language Arts
African Americans
“Wild West”
Michael Printz Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
Ship Breaker / Paolo BacigalupiLittle, Brown and Company
2010 / Nailer and his crew manage to scavenge materials on the ship-littered coast to survive. / None / Fiction
Gr. 7-12
Language Arts
Social Studies
Action-oriented
Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta / Teacher, Taylor Markham, leads her students from Jellicoe School in secret territory wards against the Townies and the Cadets. A suspenseful story of emotion, romance, humor and tragedy. / None / Fiction
Gr. 7-12
Language Arts
Social Studies
Batchelder Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
A Faraway Island / Annika ThorDelacourte Press / Two Jewish sisters, 12 and 8, are sent to Sweden to excape the Nazis. Expected to stay a short time until their parents arrive to take them to America. The war increases and one sister settles into her new family and culture. The other sister wonders if she will ever see her parents again and is unhappy. / None / Fiction
Gr. 3-8
Social Studies
Language Arts
Jews
World War II
Nazis
Refugees
A Time of Miracles / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Delacourte Press / A five year quest for a young refugee from Caucasus to freedom in France searching for truth, identity and a safe place. / None / Fiction
Gr. 7-12
Language Arts
Human Spirit
Pura Belpre Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
The Dreamer / Pam Munoz RyanScholastic, Inc. / Neftali’s domineering father doesn’t understand that he and his brother are creative souls not men of industry. Inspired by his uncle who is a progressive journalist, Neftali finds his voice and strength in political essays and poetry. / None / Fiction
Gr. 3-7
Social Studies
Language Arts
Poetry
South America
Writing
Politics
Return to Sender / Julia Alvarez
Knopf Books for Children
2009 / Told through the eyes of two young children. Tyler, whose father is injured and needs someone to tend his dairy farm. Mari, whose family are undocumented migrant workers who live on the farm to help until immigration authorities show up. /
- 2010 Americas Award for Children and Young Adult's Literature, sponsored by the national Consortium for Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)
Gr. 4-7
Language Arts
Social Studies
Immigration
Farming
States
Carnegie Award Videos
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
The Curious Garden / Paul R. GagneMelissa Reillly Ellard
Weston Woods Studios / While out exploring, Little Liam discovers a struggling garden. He decides to begin taking care of the garden and transforming it. I then spread throughout the dark, gray city. Follow Liam’s quest for a greener world. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-3
Language Arts
Science
Environment
Gardening
Country vs. City
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World / Weston Woods Studios / The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and how he influenced the world written by his sister. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-5
Social Studies
MLK, Jr.
Black History Month
Georgia Children’s Book Award
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
A Visitor for Bear / Bonny BeckerCandlewick Press
2008 / Bear doesn’t like visitors and even has a sign on the door. Mouse wants to be friends and is persistent. See what happens in this unlikely story of friendship. /
- March 2008-Barnes & Noble’s picture book wall
Gr. Pre-K-2
Language Arts
Character Ed.
Friends
One Green Apple / Eve Bunting
Clarion / A young Islamic girl on a school field trip is aware that others are nice to her and some are not. Her father explains that their home country and new country have difficulties. While on the trip to the apple orchard, she chooses a green apple to make cider while other students choose red apples. Once all apples are combined they all realize that the cider is delicious. A story of stereotypes and friendship. / None / Fiction
Gr. 1-4
Social Studies
Islam
Friendship
Diversity
Stereotypes
Additional materials
Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection
The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon / David AlmondCandlewick Press
2010 / Paul believes the moon is a hole in the sky. With help of friends and a long ladder, he will attempt to find out. / None / Fiction
Gr. 4-7
Language Arts
Imagination
Friendship
Goals
Viva La Paris / Esme Raji Codell
Hyperion Books for Children
2006 / Paris is taking piano lessons from Mrs. Rosen but gets much more. This might be what she needs to understand the bullies in life and in her brother’s life. / None / Fiction
Gr. 5-8
Language Arts
Bullies
Character Ed.
Compassion
Truth with a Capital T / Bethany Hegedus
Delacourte Press
2010 / Maebelle T. Earl is going to live with her grandparents in Tweedle, GA while her parents travel the country promoting their new book. / None / Fiction
Gr. 4-8
Language Arts
Character Ed.
Determination
Life changes
Sector 7 / David Wiesner
Clarion Books
1997 / This wordless book is a culmination of pictures from a young kid who can draw. As the kids take a school trip, they begin to see the world differently through the eyes of the kid that can draw. See what you see the next time you are outside. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-5
Language Arts
Writing
Imagination
I Spy: An Alphabet In Art / Lucy Micklethwait
Greenwillow Books
1992 / Using 26 paintings from the world’s greatest museums, each letter is represented by something in the painting. / None / Non-Fiction
Gr. K-5
Language Arts
Art
Alphabet
Visual discrimination
A Hippopotamusn’t / J. Patrick Lewis
Dial Books for Young Readers
1990 / This picture book is about all members of the animal kingdom celebrated through poetry. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-3
Language Arts
Science
Animals
Poetry
Masterpieces Up Close: Western Painting from the 14th to the 20th Centruies / Claire d’Harcourt
Chronicle Books / This book sends children on a seach for tiny details hidden in some of the world’s most famous paintings. It also asks why students think the painter chose to use those details. / None / Non-Fiction
Gr. K-8
Language Arts
Visual Discrimination
Art
Oral Language Skills
When Aunt Lena Did the Rhumba / Eileen Kurtis-Kleinman
Hyperion Books for Children
1997 / Every Wednesday, Aunt Lena attends a Broadway matinee. She returns acting, singing and dancing the parts for her niece, Sophie. Then one day Aunt Lena falls and is confined to bed. Knowing she misses the shows, Sophie decides to do something about it. / None / Fiction
Gr. K-3
Language Arts
Art
Problem Solving
Families
Extended Families
United States of America: A Novel with Scrapbook Art / Paula Danziger / Skate Tate is in the 6th grade. She’s at a new school and doesn’t like it. Great-Uncle Mort (GUM) is a world traveler and makes his own rules. GUM helps show Skate how to persevere and she keeps a scrapbook of the travels and what she learns with GUM. / None / Fiction
Gr. 3-5
Social Studies
Language Arts
Art
Scrapbooking
Traveling
Change