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Write To Me: Letters From Japanese American Children to the Librarian They...
One day Katherine Tasaki tells Miss Breed the librarian at the San Diego Public Library that she has to move, that all Japanese have to move. But Miss Breed is already aware of this. The Japanese...
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Meet Elsie MacGill by Elizabeth MacLeod
Did you know that a woman was responsible for overseeing the manufacturing of Hawker Hurricanes, a small fighter plane used by the British during World War II? That woman was Elsie MacGill, a woman who...
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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc tells the story of this famous girl-warrior saint who ultimately saved France from English occupation in the 15th century.Told in verse from multiple...
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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice B. McGinty
Do you know how Pluto, that dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system came to be named? Incredibly it was an eleven-year-old girl named Venetia Burney who is credited with first suggesting the name...
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A Place To Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
Twelve-year-old Hanako Tachibana along with her younger brother Akira and her parents is on a gigantic ship travelling from America to Japan. It is 1946, World War II is over. Hanako and her family...
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The Astronaut Who Painted The Moon by Dean Robbins
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon is about Alan Bean, NASA astronaut who flew on Apollo 12 and who is also know for his artwork portraying his space experiences. In this picture book by Dean Robbins,...
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Lovely War by Julie Berry
In Lovely War, Berry uses the frame story, a literary device in which one of the characters in a story narrates another story. In this case, the frame story, that of Aphrodite, Ares and Hephaestus...
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Julia Morgan Built A Castle by Celeste Davidson Mannis
Julia Morgan was born in 1872 in Oakland, a city on San Francisco Bay. Julia's father was an engineer at a time when cities like San Francisco were rapidly growing. He often took his young family on...
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Just Like Rube Goldberg by Sarah Aronson
You've probably heard of Rube Goldberg machines, which are machines designed to perform a simple task in a very complicated way. But who was Rube Goldberg and how did his name come to be attached to...
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What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett
What Miss Mitchell Saw is the story of Maria Mitchell, astronomer extraordinaire. Maria was born and grew up on an island with gull-dappled dunes and fragrant wild roses. Whaling ships returned to the...
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Pluto and Beyond
Pluto and Beyond provides viewers with a fascinating look at our solar system's most enigmatic planet, the dwarf planet Pluto as well as a recently discovered feature, the Kuiper Belt, via the New...
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Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill
Within These Lines is a heartrending story of love and loyalty in a time of when war breeds hatred and fear. It tells the story of two teenagers, one white and one Asian, a mixed race couple, a...
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Destination Moon by Seymour Simon
In Destination Moon, prolific children's science writer Seymour Simon chronicles the events leading up to the American Moon landing in July of 1969. As expected the story opens with United States...
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A Bear In War by Stephanie Innes and Harry Endrulat
A Bear In War is based on the true story of a young girl who sends her beloved teddy bear over to Belgium in the hopes it will protect her father during World War II.In 1916, with World War I at a...
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Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything by Martin W. Sandler
But now it was the whole globe receding in size, dwindling until it became a disk. We were the first humans to see the world in its majestic totality, an intensely emotional experience for each of us....
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Our House Is On Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call To Save the Planet by Jeanette...
Our House Is On Fire is a children's picture book that focuses on telling the story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. Her story begins in the city of Stockholm, where Greta who is quoted as...
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The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
"Sometimes the truth is dangerous, Julia. But we should search for it nonetheless..." Antonio, Julia's husband. Ana Torres Moreno works as a maid at Castella Hilton Madrid, in Madrid Spain. It is...
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The Language of Fire by Stephanie Hemphill
The Language of Fire is another retelling of the story of St. Joan of Arc, the Catholic teenager from the village of Domremy, who turned the tide in the Hundred Years War, saving France from English...
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My Name is Hanna by Tara Lynn Masih
My Name Is Hanna is the fictional account of a Ukrainian-Jewish family's struggles to survive the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Hanna Slivka lives in the village of Kwasova with her younger sister Leeba...
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Where The World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
Where The World Ends is a fictional account of an event that occurred in the St. Kilda archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Scotland.The island of Hirta which is the home for the...
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