Author Description

Explore the roads, towns, homes, landscapes, and eras of many well-loved and award-winning titles with this resource. Focusing on works of Cynthia Voigt, Elizabeth George Speare, Katherine Paterson, and Marguerite Henry, it presents activities that make literature more tangible and encourages learning in social studies, history, and geography. Each chapter highlights one author, providing book summaries and details about the author's life and noting particular events and places incorporated into the stories. Narrative text, photographs, maps, drawings, and suggested reading lists are included. Settings are described both as they are now and as they were during the time period of the book. Offering a wealth of material for the upper elementary and junior high classroom, this resource will be treasured by anyone who loves children's books. Grades 5-8.