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DEEP SOUTH
For Kids
Stories from Where We Live, The Gulf Coast
• Sara St. Antoine
• Trudy Nicholson
• Paul Mirocha
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
An anthology of writings about coastal Texas, Florida and Louisiana -- wonderfully useful as a young person's guide to people, nature and place. It includes Native American myths, poems and songs, historical accounts and modern short stories, as well as black-and-white drawings and maps. Ages 9 to 14.
(USS248, $10.95) |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Mark Twain
LITERATURE •
1985 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
An enormously influential American book, Twain's masterpiece of boyhood adventure is as much about America's growing pains as it is about Huck's coming of age. As crises of adolescence go, Huck's dawning awareness of the slave Jim's humanity is about as big as they come. Ages 12 and up.
(USS41, $7.00) |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
• Harper Lee
LITERATURE •
1960 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
Mandatory reading in most American classrooms, this affecting novel-of-conscience remains a humane portrait of the black and white denizens of the American south. It's set in Alabama.
(USS254, $7.99) |
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