List of Titles You May Wish to Donate
Related to November's Dream Team Theme:
People, Places, and Things: Fiction and Nonfiction

If you would like to donate the funds for one of the following titles, please complete the DONATION FORM and send a check to Mrs. Woo in the Holten Richmond Library. Thank you!

Note: The Dr. Betty G. Allen Fund is managed under the auspices of the Danvers Educational Enrichment Partnership (DEEP).

Green, Baseball Great                                             15.00

         All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.

Mazer, Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor         10.00

         While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.

Roberts, Bruegel                                                      10.00

         Surveys the life and work of sixteenth-century artist Pieter Bruegel, and includes over ninety color and black-and-white illustrations.

Lenhard, Chicks With Sticks: It’s a Purl                  15.00

         Four teenage girls from very different social cliques at their progressive Chicago high school become friends after forming a knitting club.

Giblin, Did Fleming Rescue Churchill?                  15.00

         Ten-year-old Jason uses everything he knows about research, including how to separate fact from fiction when using the Internet, to make the deadline for his history paper on scientist Alexander Fleming--the discoverer of penicillin. Includes research tips, emphasizing the importance of accuracy.

Jensen, Enriching the Brain: How to Mazimize Every Learner’s Potential                           20.00

         Argues that educators and parents greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity, explains how the brain can be enriched to maximize learning, memory, behavior, and overall function, and offers tips on how to improve a child's brain function at any age.

Every Human Has Rights: A Photographic Declaration for Kids 15.00

         "Based on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; with poetry from the ePals community.";Includes bibliographical references and index. Combines photographs with poetry to offer an overview of the thirty rights granted to all people by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Lupica, Hot Hand                                                      10.00

         "A Comeback Kids novel." In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.

Michelangelo                                                               15.00

         A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.

Golding, Mines of the Minotaur                                    15.00

         Thirteen-year-old Connie Lionheart, the only person able to communicate with the world's unseen mythical creatures, becomes alarmed when she starts to feel the pull of a dark power, and unable to convince the secret society that protects the bonds between humans and creatures that she is under attack, she retreats to an underground world in search of answers.

Ellis, Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children                  15.00

         A collection of essays in which the children of Canadian and American soldiers who have been sent to war in Iraq share their feelings on their fathers' experiences and the impact they have had on their family.

Klise, Regarding the Bees: A Lesson, in Letters, on Honey, Dating, and Other Sticky Subjects                                    10.00

         The seventh graders at Geyser Creek Middle School are preparing for a spelling bee and a horrible standardized test called the BEE, and try to smuggle their mascot--a bee that spells--into the local spelling competition.

Denman, TheShade                                                               15.00

         Safira, spending time at swim camp in the weeks before her sister Mya's wedding, sees a ghostly apparition; and together with her friend, Trinity, try to figure out who it is and where it came from.

Osborne, Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction                           20.00

         Collects accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources to provide a first-person perspective on the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Wolff, This Full House                                             15.00

         LaVaughn, having overcome many obstacles to obtain admission to the Women in Science program, a stepping-stone to college, finds her dreams jeopardized by her attempts to resolve a difficult situation involving people she cares about.