Literature Guide

Story Summary: This high-paced story begins with the prince making trouble--again--and Jem, the royal whipping boy, receiving the prince's punishment--again. Jem figures he might as well learn proper manners and how to read and write, even if the prince won't. But when ''Prince Brat'' decides to run away, what can Jem do but go along and try to keep the prince and himself alive?

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On a dark and stormy night, Meg Murry and her family are visited by a stranger who surprises them by announcing that "there is such a thing as a tesseract." Two years earlier, Meg's father had disappeared while conducting experiments with a tesseract, a method of traveling through the fifth dimension. Now Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin must journey across time and space to find Meg's father. Though they are aided by three mysterious women, they must rely on their own skills--and in Meg's case, her faults--to rescue Mr. Murry from the forces of evil. 1963 Newbery Medal winner. Setting: Imaginative

Billie Jo is an only child, her mother is pregnant, her family is poor, and the crops won't grow. It's the Depression and dust covers and fills everything. Billie Joe finds joy and solace in her piano playing, but even that fails when unthinkable tragedy strikes her family. Out of the Dust is written as a poetic journal and vividly brings the Dustbowl years to life. Setting: 1930s, Oklahoma Dustbowl