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Charade Parade: A Dozen in Disguise Forget the baseball cap and dark sunglasses,
the disguises
featured in this month’s Dozen require some complicated maneuvering
from our
protagonists (both human and animal) and will more than likely inspire
a few
trips to the craft store. |
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Barton, Chris Can
I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False
Identities; illus. by Paul Hoppe. Dial, 2011. Gr. 5-9
This offbeat collective biography chronicles, with
suspense
and energy, the exploits of ten people who engaged in dramatic,
sometimes
famous, acts of identity fakery, from a teen passing as a New York
subway
driver to Solomon Perel, a Polish Jew who enrolled and was accepted in
the
Hitler Youth. (BCCB 4/11)
Douglas, Lola.
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet : A Novel.
Razorbill, 2005
An overdose at the Viper Room and a subsequent
stint in
rehab bring sixteen-year-old movie starlet Morgan Carter to Fort Wayne,
Indiana, where she will don a new identity and experience life as a
“normal”
teen in an effort to stay clean and sober. (BCCB 2/06)
Fradin, Judith
Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin. 5,000 Miles
to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery. National
Geographic,
2005. Gr. 5-10
This is the gripping true story of
Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery with a daring plan wherein
Ellen
publicly passed as a young white man and her husband as her slave on
their journey
north. (BCCB 5/06)
Helman, Andrea.
Hide and Seek: Nature’s Vanishing Acts;
illus. with photographs by Gavriel Jecan. Walker, 2008. Gr. 2-4
Humans aren’t the only species to use a good
costume to
better their circumstances: photographs of 28 different animals
expertly
camouflaged are accompanied by brief, informative text, making this an
easy
choice for a science project resource. (BCCB 2/08)
Jinks, Catherine.
Babylonne. Candlewick, 2008. Gr. 7-12
Although the historical details here are sometime
unflinchingly
graphic, the snappy, colorful first-person narration by Babylonne, a
medieval
teen girl who chops off her hair and heads off the join the knighthood,
give
this piece of historical fiction interesting cross-genre appeal. (BCCB
1/09)
Jones, Carrie.
Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender :
The True Story of a Civil War Spy; illustrated by Mark Oldroyd.
Carolrhoda
Books, 2011. 6-10 yrs
Jones takes a look at the life of Sarah Emma
Edmonds, whose
enlistment in the Union army as a male nurse was only the first of many
disguises used by the young Canadian woman who would eventually serve
as a spy
behind Confederate lines. (BCCB 5/11)
Meyer, L. A.
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of Curious
Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy. Harcourt. Gr. 7-10
When a desperate young eighteenth-century orphan
passes for
male and joins the Royal Navy, the resulting journey is fraught with
high
adventure, drama, and even romance. (BCCB 12/02)
Perkins, Mitali.
Rickshaw Girl; illus. by Jamie Hogan.
Charlesbridge, 2007. Gr. 3-5
Bangladeshi culture, gender expectations, and the
nuances of
microfinance all play a role in this engaging story of a young girl’s
attempts
to help out her struggling family by posing as a boy to gain employment
at a
local rickshaw repair shop. (BCCB 5/07)
Pichon, Liz. The
Very Ugly Bug. Tiger Tales, 2005. 4-7 yrs
A very ugly bug lament sits inability to properly
camouflage
itself but then discovers that its unsightliness might actually be a
benefit in
this vibrantly illustrated picture-book take on
self-acceptance.
(BCCB 5/05)
Root, Phyllis.
Looking for a Moose; illus. by Randy Cecil.
Candlewick, 2006. 3-6 yrs
In this deliciously chantable rhyming story, a
crew of kids
take off searching for a moose hidden within the forest landscape—but
is the
animal closer than the searchers realize? (BCCB 12/06)
Savage, Stephen
Where’s Walrus?; written and illus. by
Stephen Savage. Scholastic, 2011. 3-6 yrs
This hilarious wordless picture book follows the attempts of an
adventurous
walrus to blend with various groups of people after he slips out of the
zoo for
a lark. (BCCB 2/11)
Schwartz, David
M. Where Else in the Wild?: More Camouflaged
Creatures Concealed…and Revealed; by David M. Schwartz and Yael Schy;
illus.
with photographs by Dwight Kuhn. Tricycle, 2009. Gr. 2-4
Viewers scratching their heads while trying to
locate the
concealed critters in Kuhn’s vibrant, full-page photos will be helped
along by
the clues peppered throughout the accompanying “ear-tickling” poems by
Schwartz
and Schy. (BCCB 1/10)
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