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Sugar In Milk by Thrity Umrigar
When the young girl first came to America she felt so alone.Her auntie and uncle did all they could to make her feel welcome. They painted her bedroom purple and filled it with books and toys.But the...
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The Girl Who Loved Giraffes by Kathy Stinson
Anne Innis's love of giraffes began with a trip to her local zoo when she was a young girl. Anne was the daughter of Harold Innis who was a professor and Mary Quayle Innis who was a writer. The...
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Crossing The Farak River by Michelle Aung Thin
Fourteen-year-old Hasina lives in the fictional village of Teknadaung in Rakhine state located in Burma, now called Myanmar. The village is divided into two sections by the Farak River; one side is...
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I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
Edie Green's father is American and her mother is Native American. She knows her father has roots in Germany, England and Wales but she really doesn't know anything about her mother's family because...
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Amina's Song by Hena Khan
Amina Khokar is in the final days of her visit to Lahore, Pakistan with her older brother, Mustafa and mother. Amina and her family decided to visit Pakistan after Thaya Jaan became ill earlier in the...
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Rhinos In Nebraska by Alison Pearce Stevens
Twelve million years ago, in ancient Nebraska, short, round hippos, elephants, three-toed horses, many types of camels and oreodonts roamed the grasslands. But a thousand miles away, unknown to these...
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Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story Of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero by...
Gino Bartali had pedaled through the crowded streets of Florence, Italy, all his life. Then he began training to enter bicycle races. He cycled along the coast and up steep mountains. Over the span of...
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Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age by Caroline Arnold
In 1991, a hiker in norther British Columbia discovered "fossil bones eroding out of the banks of the Sikanni Chief River." When Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls from the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology...
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Harvey Holds His Own by Colleen Nelson
Harvey's back in a new adventure, after being returned home to his beloved Maggie. Now she's beginning seventh grade at St. Ambrose Academy along with her best friends Brianne and Lexi. Students...
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The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow by Jan Thornhill
In this exquisite nonfiction picture book, author/illustrator Jan Thornhill explores the relationship between humans and the ubiquitous House Sparrow.House Sparrows have lived around humans for more...
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Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner
It is Koji Miyamoto's thirteenth birthday on Sunday, December 7th, 1941. He has the radio on, listening to the Lone Ranger when the broadcast is interrupted by the announcement that the Japanese have...
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Escape From Syria by Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche & Mike Freiheit
In 2013, Amina lived with her entire family in one house. She loved walking home from school and visiting her Uncle Mahmoud to read his books. She would eat apples with her grandfather. Amina's family...
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Trapped In Hitler's Web by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
It is October 1942. Nathan Segal and Maria Fediuk are considering the ad on the wall outside the Reich Employment Office, in Nazi-occupied Lviv, Ukraine. Nathan and Maria are from the village of...
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The Incredible Nellie Bly by Luciana Cimino and Sergio Algozzino
It is December, 1921 and the college periodical of Columbia University wants to publish a special issue celebrating American journalism in honor of the tenth anniversary of Columbia's Journalism...
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Sergeant Billy by Mireille Messier
Sergeant Billy was a goat who travelled with a group of Canadian soldiers to the muddy trenches of France during World War I.At the beginning of World War I, a train full of soldiers stop in a small...
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The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
It is 1426, five years after the events in the ancient Gotjawal Forest. Eighteen-year-old Hwani is travelling to Nowon village on Jeju Island, a penal island for political prisoners. She is disguised...
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DaVinci's Cat by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Eleven-year-old Sir Federico Gonzaga, son of Duke Francesco II of Mantua and Lady Isabella d'Este of Ferrara is a "guest" of Pope Julius II in the Vatican. He is in fact being held hostage by the pope...
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Paying The Land by Joe Sacco
Renowned graphic artist, Joe Sacco explores the life of the Dene in the Northwest Territories as well as the issues they have experienced over the past decades as a result of colonialism and European...
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One Step Further by Katherine Johnson
In One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission, Katherine Johnson, famed human computer who helped with the space race, and her daughters tell their story and how her life...
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Watercress by Andrea Wang
A young girl is driving along a country road in Ohio with her parents and her older brother. They are in the family's old red Pontiac. Suddenly her mother spots watercress in the ditch beside the talk...
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