Coretta Scott King Author Award Read about the fascinating life of Bass Reeves, who escaped
slavery to become the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and ...
A discovery that made the world a brighter place!Joe and Bob Switzer were very different
brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and ...
Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum &
Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman! The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and ...
From acclaimed author of A Wolf Called Wander, Rosanne Parry welcomes readers into the Heartland in
this tender coming-of-age story.When Brother's dad is shipped off to Iraq, along with the rest of his reserve unit, Brother must help his grandparents keep ...
“An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age.” —The New York Times Book Review
Brian Floca explores Apollo 11’s famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot!Simply told, grandly shown, and now with eight additional pages of ...
Jason Chin's Redwoods tells the story of a boy who discovers a book about redwoods
and finds himself in their midst as he turns the pages. An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests. A ...
One of the most adored characters in children's literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma
Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago. And it turns out that her story ...
Before global warming, there was dust. In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the
Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming, these lethal storms were part of an environmental, economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course of ...