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When Sue Found Sue by Toni Buzzeo
The inspiring story of Sue Hendrickson and her incredible discovery is told in When Sue Found Sue a picture book for younger readers.Growing up in Munster, Indiana, Sue was a shy and curious child who...
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Degas, Painter of Ballerinas by Susan Goldman Rubin
"Drawing is not what one sees, but what one can make others see."Ā Degas, Painter of Ballerinas is an exquisite biography for young readers of this famous artist, known for his sketches, paintings and...
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Orange For The Sunsets by Tina Athaide
Orange For the Sunsets explores the events surrounding theĀ historic order by Ugandan President Idi Amin in 1972 to banish Ugandans with Asian ancestry from the country. In the novel,Uganda, initially...
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A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry
A Wolf Called Wander tells the story of a young wolf who undertakes an incredible journey of survival after his pack is destroyed. The story is based on the real life events surrounding a wild wolf...
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The Boy Who Grew A Forest by Sophia Gholz
A young boy lived on a large river island with his family and other families. He began to notice that with each rainy season more and more of his island home was lost to the rising river. His tree...
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When We Became Humans: Our Incredible Evolutionary Journey by Michael Bright
When We Became Humans traces what scientists be current theory of the evolutionary journey of humans from primates in this book for younger readers. Michael Bright begins by defining a number of terms...
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Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species by Sabina Radeva
Up until the mid 19th century, it was generally believed that all life on earth was created within the last few thousands of years,Ā at the same time and had generally remained unchanged. However some...
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The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
Seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan has been working in Mrs. English's milliner's shop as a milliner's assistant for the last two years for a measly fifty cents per day. However, before she can ask for the...
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Encounter by Brittany Luby
Encounter tells the story of a meeting between two people from very different worlds long ago. The story begins on a morning in which the "sun rose to light all Creation." Creation includes seagull,...
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Prehistoric Dinosaurs, Megalodons, and Other Fascinating Creatures of the...
Prehistoric Dinosaurs takes readers on a journey backwards in time beginning with our own epoch, the Anthropocene.Readers start with the Holocene epoch which began approximately 10,000 years ago and is...
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Light A Candle by Godfrey Nkongolo and Eric Walters
Ngama's village sits at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. One day he sees a car leaving his village. This is so unusual that Ngama races home to find out who the visitor is and why he came....
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DVD: Harriet
Harriet is the cinematic dramatization of the amazing story of Harriet Tubman who fled from Maryland as a slave into Delaware to be free.In 1840, Araminty "Minty" Ross, a slave on the farm of Edward...
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It Began With A Page by Kyo Maclear
Even as a small child, Gyo Fujikawa loved to draw. At the young age of five, she may not have yet known what she wanted to be but she knew she loved colours, line and "the feel of the pencil in her...
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Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Langston lives in Bronzeville, a part of Chicago also called the Black Ghetto or the Black Belt. Langston and his father moved from Alabama one week after the death of his mama. They live in a...
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Words On Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Words On Fire explores the work of the book smugglers of 19th century Lithuania during the Russian occupation through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl.It is 1893, and twelve-year-old Audra Zikaris...
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Life: The First Four Billion Years by Martin Jenkins
Life: The First Four Billion Years takes readers from the Big Bang to the beginning of the evolution of humans. Much of the detailĀ and the scenarios presented in this nonfiction book for young readers...
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Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga
Jude lives in a small city in Syria with her mama, baba and her older brother Issa. Their town, situated below the mountains and close to the sea, is very supportive of Syrian president Bashar...
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All In A Drop by Lori Alexander
Antony van Leeuwenhoek lives in the town of Delft, Netherlands. It is a place of tree-lined canals and busy merchants. Antony lives at a time which comes to be known as the Golden Age for the...
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Allies by Alan Gratz
Allies tells the story of the D-Day invasion of June 1944 over a twenty-four hour period through the eyes of four main characters and a host of minor ones.Private Dee Carpenter is only sixteen years...
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Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus
Village of Scoundrels is a fictional story based on true events that happened in Le Chambon-sure-Lignon and nearby villages located in southern France during World War II. These villages worked...
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