The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Mallory on the Move
After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.
Author: Laurie B. Friedman
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- Questions: Have you ever moved? What happened to your friends? Brothers and sisters? Have you ever made a promise and broke it? How can you keep in touch if you move? If you had a wishing pond, what would you want?
- Compare: My Name is
Yoon, Gooney Bird Greene, other realistic fiction
- Mapping: Measure distances to previous homes of students
- Back to School Mallory, Happy Birthday, Mallory and Mallory vs. Max by Laurie B. Friedman
- Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
- Hey, New Kid by Betsy Duffey
- Amber Brown Is Green with
Envy by Paula Danziger
- Ira Says Goodbye by Bernard Waber
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