Items18The creator’s order
  1. 1A single shard (2001)A single shard (2001) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2001In a twelfth-century Korean pottery village, Tree-ear watches master potter Min at his wheel and learns how long the work takes between days when he shapes pots. His first tasks are the heavy ones, including cutting wood for the kiln. Pick it for a child who wants to know what goes into a finished…0
  2. 2The Midwife's Apprentice (1995)The Midwife's Apprentice (1995) 7.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1995Alyce finds work with a midwife in a medieval English village. She has to learn an adult's work while finding food, shelter, and a place for herself. The apprentice's view gives a young reader a way into village life through the errands and practical decisions that fill a day.0
  3. 3The birchbark house (1999)The birchbark house (1999) 7.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1999Omakayas and her Ojibwe family live on an island in Lake Superior. Follow what they eat, the work they do, and where they live as the seasons change. Spending time with those routines first makes the outbreak of smallpox feel like an interruption of a family life the reader already knows.0
  4. 4The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2015)The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2015)Published Jan 1, 2015Eel makes a living hunting for things he can sell in the mud along the Thames. When cholera spreads in 1854, he helps Dr. John Snow investigate the neighborhood's water supply. Start here to see how one boy's knowledge of local streets and households becomes useful to a doctor.0
  5. 5The Door of No Return (2021)The Door of No Return (2021) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2021Kofi swims in the Offin River and plays oware with his grandfather in a fictional Asante village in 1860. At school, he has to speak English instead of Twi. Those early routines give the later story of enslavement a clear sense of whose home and childhood are being taken away.0
  6. 6Our Australian Girl: Meet PoppyOur Australian Girl: Meet PoppyPoppy lives at Bird Creek Mission near Echuca in 1864. When her older brother Gus leaves to look for gold, she has to decide whether to follow him into the bush. This short chapter book brings the gold rush into view through two children choosing where and how they might live.0
  7. 7Prairie Lotus (2020)Prairie Lotus (2020) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2020In Dakota Territory in 1880, Hanna wants to go to school and use the sewing skills she learned from her mother to make dresses for her father's store. Orders and school days make it possible to see how she might build a life in town. They also show where anti-Asian prejudice limits the choices…0
  8. 8The evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009)The evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009) 8.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2009During a hot Texas summer in 1899, Calpurnia wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her yard grow bigger than the green ones. She starts writing down what she sees, with help from her grandfather. Look for the places she finds time to investigate in a crowded house with six brothers.0
  9. 9Esperanza Rising (2000)Esperanza Rising (2000) 7.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2000Esperanza leaves Mexico for a farm camp in Depression-era California, where she has to learn the chores other children already know. Chapters named for crops bring the fields into the story as the year goes on. The farming calendar makes it easier to follow how illness, pay, and a strike affect her…0
  10. 10The war that Saved my Life (2015)The war that Saved my Life (2015) 9.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2015Ada and her brother leave London with other children evacuated at the start of World War II. In the countryside, Ada teaches herself to ride a pony and learns to read while the three people in her new household learn how to live together. Those everyday discoveries give the evacuation a child's…0