Time Period: July 1943 - June 1944 Ten-year-old Jennie Fleming is doing what she can to help win a war-she's hoeing weeds in her "Victory Garden." In 1944, with

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who raised h

These quick activities help students enjoy the influential literature of Ezra Jack Keats. Here, students focus on the story Jennie's Hat. Before-, during-, and

The West’s pioneering experience has been both documented and dramatized enough to give us all some impression - for right or for wrong - of what pioneers wer