Nora's Chicks
Illustrator
Kathryn Brown
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Year
2013
ISBN
9780763647537
Pages
40 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Nora and her family have just arrived from Russia and are making a new home on the American frontier. The prairie is very different from the forested hills Nora is used to. Most of all, it’s lonely. Papa has the cows he sings to as he milks them. Baby brother Milo has a dog to follow him wherever he goes. But Nora has no one and nothing to call her own until Papa brings home a dozen chicks and two geese. Nora names each one, and they follow her everywhere — even to church! But what will happen when one of her beloved chicks goes missing?
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
AD470L
Diversity Topics
Culture/Ethnicity; Immigrants and refugees; immigrant family; immigrant children; immigrant parents; relocation; resettlement; emigration
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
White (Russian)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Cybils Awards, 2013, Nominee, Elementary and Middle Grade(Fiction Picture Books)
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2014 Historical Fiction
Choices, 2014 Picture Books for School-Age Children
Keywords
farm; Russia; prairie; dog; horses; cow; chicks; loneliness; new friend; homesick; hopeful; church
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Maclachlan, Patricia, "Nora's Chicks" (2013). Diverse Families. 1808.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1808