Reaching for Sun by J. Durango

Diary entries are used to respond to this book.

This novel in verse tells the story of Josie who is a girl with cerebral palsy.  The condition affected one side of her body more than the other.  Since it is written in verse it is a quick read due to all the white space. Josie is a little shy and a little embarrassed to be in special education class.  She is close to her mother and grandmother, but doesn't have any close friends at school.

Night by Elie Wiesel

A diary was created as a response to this book.

This is a true account of the author's experience as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

Award winner--We Are the Ship The Story of Negro Baseball League

The Power of One

Diaroma of The Power of One

The powerful drama The Power of One  by  Bryce Courtney is the adventure of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.

What I Saw and How I Lied

Diaroma

Judy Blundell's thriller  What I Saw and How I Lied is set in 1947. The main character Evie finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Timeline created as a response to this book.

 A Long Way Gone describes  the author's experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen.   He served as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moved to the United States.