(4) K-3 Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Eight-year-old Harriet describes her 1905 trek up Colorado's Longs Peak--the mountain her mother dreamed of climbing before she died. The book is based on a true story, facts of which Barron at times clunkily relays ("Here I was, just eight years old, half the age of anyone who'd ever climbed it"). Regardless, the story is, like Lewin's watercolors, suspenseful and dramatic.

Reviewer: Nell Beram