Profiles fifty novels for grades 4-8 that present character traits worth emulating. Each profile discusses a novel's awards, characters, setting, plot, and vocabulary; presents discussion questions and project ideas; and provides information about the author, as well as comments from the author on the novel.
year: 2001
call number/section: 809.89, 809
subjects: best books, children's literature, children's literature, bibliography, middle school students, books and reading, characters and characteristics in literature, middle school libraries, book lists