Double Dream Feet

To see Hope's and mine Double Dream Feet Video click HERE. WE would like to thank young Miles Wearing for video taping us do our FRIGHTENING dance!!! :)

Kira- kira

Kira- Kira
By: Cynthia Kadohata
244 pages
Published in 2004

This story is about a family who is moving. Katie's first word was "kira- kira." Her older sister, Lyn, showed her many new things that Katie had never known before. "Kira- kira" meas glitter in Japanese, so Katie used "Kira- kira" to describe anything that she liked. That really annoyed her mother, and her mother vowed to send them both to Japan one day to learn real Japanese. But the day came that they had to leave their old house in Iowa and go to a new one  in Georgia. Katie and Lyn had to leave all their friends, and then create new ones.

Chains

Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
316 pages
Published in 2008

This story is about a girl Isabel and Ruth who have to fight for their freedom as African Americans in the Revolutionary War. The Locktons are these two young girls' masters. The Locktons are a young couple that has no sympathy for Isabel and Ruth. But when Isabel meets Curzon, another slave, convinces Isabel to spy on her masters, for some inside information about the British plans for invasion.

trouble don't last

trouble don't last
by shelly pearsal
260 pages
published in ?

This story walks through the life of a 11 year old boy who is an African American slave. He and his unknown grandfather go on an adventure to be "free" slaves for EVER!!!!