Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
by Michael Morpurgo | 
The Courage of Sarah Noble
by Alice Dalgliesh | 
The Orphan Band of Springdale
by Anne Nesbet | 
Happy Little Family
by Rebecca Caudill | 
The Matchlock Gun
by Walter D. Edmonds |
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
by Carolyn Treffinger | 
Wolf Hollow
by Lauren Wolk |
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani |
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
by Hildegarde H. Swift |
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
by Julie T. Lamana |
Imogene's Last Stand
by Candace Fleming | 
Paperboy
by Vince Vawter | 
The Chestry Oak
by Kate Seredy |
Peppe the Lamplighter
by Elisa Bartone |
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville
by Pat Zietlow Miller |
Crow Call
by Lois Lowry | 
The Memory Coat
by Elvira Woodruff | 
Soup
by Robert Newton Peck |
All Different Now
by Angela Johnson |
The Good Thieves
by Katherine Rundell |
It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment--learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.