August Author Board

Anthony comes face to face with a growling bear, pretends to be a dog, and hears a giant tapping on the window.

This novel set in the 1870s tells the story of Jody Baxter who wants a pet but his family can barely feed themselves. He finally convinces his parents to let him care for an orphaned fawn he names Flag.

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another,Katniss voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

A collection of poems and antique photographs depicting children of many different nationalities.

The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.

Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.

A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.

Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.