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Good news... a printable version of all the titles on the Mock Sibert reading list is now available. Click here to see the complete printable list.

Worried that you won't be able to get your hands on a particular title before the discussion? We have a copy of each one here in Children's Services at the Main Library. Stop by and ask a librarian to check one out today.

Happy reading!

Final Reading List

This is the fourth and final reading list for this year's Mock Sibert at the Allen County Public Library (also see List #1, List #2, and List #3).

• Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem

• Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher by Marfe Ferguson Delano

• How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

• Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories about Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

• Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution by Laurie Halse Anderson

• Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family's Farm by Michael Rosen

• Washington at Valley Forge by Russell Freedman

• What the World Eats by Faith D'Aluisio

The actual mock election will take place on Saturday, January 17th from 2 to 6pm at the Main Library. Registration for the program is now open.

If you can't make it to Fort Wayne in January, please comment on the blog. All comments will be considered during the mock election program.

Washington at Valley Forge

Washington at Valley Forge
by Russell Freedman
Holiday House
100 pages

Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But when the harsh winter ended, the soldiers had survived, and marched away from Valley Forge more determined than ever.

Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past

Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
by James M. Deem
Houghton Mifflin
58 pages

Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
37 pages

Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family's Farm

Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family's Farm
by Michael Rosen
Darby Creek Pub.
144 pages

A journal of one year on the Bennett farm in central Ohio. Shows how one family, with the help of relatives and friends, creates a life and livelihood on a 150-acre farm.

Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher

Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher
by Marfe Ferguson Delano
National Geographic
63 pages

The epic story of Annie Sullivan, the pioneering teacher who overcame disability and misfortune before achieving her success as one of the most famous educators of all time.

What the World Eats

What the World Eats
by Faith D'Aluisio
Tricycle Press
160 pages

A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of twenty-five families from twenty-one countries surrounded by a week's worth of food.

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Houghton Mifflin Company
unpaged

Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways.

Reading List #3

This is the third of four reading lists for this year's Mock Sibert at the Allen County Public Library (also see the first and second lists). We'd love to hear what you think about these books. Please leave comments about each title on its blog post. If you would like to suggest a book for the next list, send me an email or leave a comment.

A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero by Gina Capaldi

The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America by Albert Marrin

Lincoln Shot: A President's Life Remembered by Barry Denenberg

Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life by Martin W. Sandler

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming

The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes by Ellen Jackson

Our White House: Looking In Looking Out by various authors

Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder by Tanya Lee Stone

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay

The actual mock election will take place on Saturday, January 17th from 2 to 6pm at the Main Library. Registration for the program is now open. If you can't make it to Fort Wayne in January, please comment on the blog. All comments will be considered during the mock election program.

The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body

The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
by David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin Company
336 pages

Macaulay leads readers on a highly visual journey through the basics workings of the human body. In seven comprehensive sections he and coauthor Richard Walker take us from the cells of which we are formed to the individual systems they build. Each double-page spread explores a different aspect of this complex structure while gradually constructing as straightforward an overview as possible of the links between the inner workings of the body and the world outside.

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
by Candace Fleming
Schwartz & Wade Books
181 pages

Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life

Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life
by Martin W. Sandler
Walker & Company
97 pages

Knucklehead: Tall tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
by Jon Scieszka
Viking
106 pages

How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.

Lincoln Shot: A President's Life Remembered

Lincoln Shot: A President's Life Remembered
by Barry Denenberg
Feiwel and Friends
40 pages

A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero

A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
by Gina Capaldi
Carolrhoda Books
32 pages

Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder

Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder
by Tanya Lee Stone
Viking
unpaged

As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.

The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America

The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
by Albert Marrin
Dutton Children's Books
248 pages

Theodore Roosevelt is one of America's liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt's far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nation's place in the world and the life of every modern American.

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
by Jane Yolen
Charlesbridge
103 pages

The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes

The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes
by Ellen Jackson
Houghton Mifflin
60 pags