Tap Dancing on the Roof

Tap Dancing on the Roof
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547394128

A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this book illuminate funny, unexpected, amazing aspects of the everyday--of breakfast, thunder and lightning, houseplants, tennis, freshly laundered socks. Carefully crafted and deceptively simple, Linda Sue Park's sijo are a pleasure to read and an irresistible invitation to experiment with an unfamiliar poetic form. Istvan Banyai's irrepressibly giddy and sophisticated illustrations add a one-of-a-kind luster to a book that is truly a gem.


Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
Author: Sheila Williams
Publisher: One World
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 034544874X

After a life of crime and poverty in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, forty-two-year-old Juanita Lewis, craving a simpler life, drops everything, including her three grown, deadbeat children, to move to Montana. Reprint.


Flying Feet

Flying Feet
Author: Anna Burgard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005-02-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Based on a true tale, two master dancers compete for the chance to teach the people of Ballyconneely, Ireland, how to dance.


Xander's Panda Party

Xander's Panda Party
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547558651

Readers can party with a pandaNand all creatures tall and smallNin this endearing new picture book by Newbery Medalist Park and brilliant illustrator Phelan. Full color.


Wonder of Wonders

Wonder of Wonders
Author: Alisa Solomon
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0805095292

A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely potent cultural landmark. In a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America. It is a story of the theater, following Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut in one of the last big book musicals, and his ultimate destination—a major Hollywood picture. Solomon reveals how the show spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires of its time: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. Audiences everywhere found in Fiddler immediate resonance and a usable past, whether in Warsaw, where it unlocked the taboo subject of Jewish history, or in Tokyo, where the producer asked how Americans could understand a story that is "so Japanese." Rich, entertaining, and original, Wonder of Wonders reveals the surprising and enduring legacy of a show about tradition that itself became a tradition. Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles.


The One Thing You'd Save

The One Thing You'd Save
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1328515133

If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a middle school class. Illustrated with black-and-white art. When a teacher asks her class what one thing they would save in an emergency, some students know the answer right away. Others come to their decisions more slowly. And some change their minds when they hear their classmates' responses. A lively dialog ignites as the students discover unexpected facets of one another--and themselves. With her ear for authentic dialog and knowledge of tweens' priorities and emotions, Linda Sue Park brings the varied voices of an inclusive classroom to life through carefully honed, engaging, and instantly accessible verse.


Dancing on Grapes

Dancing on Grapes
Author: Graziella Pacini Buonanno
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Grapes
ISBN: 9781590788332

A heartwarming, evocotive depiction of life in rural Tuscany, based on the author's own childhood


Mung-mung

Mung-mung
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1570914869

See what each animal says and a word that is like the sound.


Taking Off

Taking Off
Author: Jenny Moss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 080272258X

In Clear Lake, Texas, a group of astronauts has begun training for the Challenger mission. Among them is a teacher named Christa McAuliffe, the woman chosen to be the first teacher in space. When Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by her determination and courage. Following Christa's NASA journey through the news, Annie sees that Christa seems to be an ordinary person, like Annie herself, and yet Christa is reaching amazing heights-like flying on the space shuttle. Feeling so inspired, Annie is devastated when the shuttle launch turns to tragedy. But Annie must remember that Christa would have wanted her to keep reaching for her dreams, despite any obstacle.