Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763649457

A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.


An Instructional Guide for Literature: Because of Winn-Dixie

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Because of Winn-Dixie
Author: Tracy Pearce
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1480769142

Learn how Winn-Dixie encourages Opal to make friends by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons in this instructional guide for literature, created to support this award-winning children's favorite. This guide is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this inspiring story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.


The Tiger Rising

The Tiger Rising
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763649449

A National Book Award finalist by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. Featuring a new cover illustration by Stephen Walton.


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ISBN: 0763689793


The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 076364367X

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories. Jr Lib Guild. Teacher's Guide available. Reprint.


Louisiana's Way Home

Louisiana's Way Home
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536204773

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana’s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town — including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder — she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes. (Which could be due to the curse on Louisiana's and Granny’s heads. But that is a story for another time.) Called “one of DiCamillo’s most singular and arresting creations” by The New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale — and now, with humor and tenderness, Kate DiCamillo returns to tell her story.


Great Joy

Great Joy
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763629200

Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.


Beverly, Right Here

Beverly, Right Here
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763694649

As featured on The Today Show’s Read with Jenna Jr. Book Club Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly. Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still. This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay away. Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it’s not running away. It’s leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn’t want to depend on anyone, and she definitely doesn’t want anyone to depend on her. But despite her best efforts, she can’t help forming connections with the people around her — and gradually, she learns to see herself through their eyes. In a touching, funny, and fearless conclusion to her sequence of novels about the beloved Three Rancheros, #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo tells the story of a character who will break your heart and put it back together again.


The Kate DiCamillo Collection

The Kate DiCamillo Collection
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780763649531

Jumpstart an instant collection with Kate DiCamillo's first four extraordinary novels--among them a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award Finalist, a winner of the Newbery Medal, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner. Included in this boxed set are: Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tiger Rising, The Tale of Despereaux, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Kate DiCamillo's longtime followers and new fans alike will enjoy collecting four of her best-loved classics in one handsome boxed set.