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Redwoods

by Chin, Jason

An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests A subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redw...

Teedie

The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt

by Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Look to the Stars

by Aldrin, Buzz

Buzz Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the history of space exploration. As one of a handful of astronauts to have walked on the moon, Buzz Aldrin has ...

You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!

by Winter, Jonah

In this striking picture book biography, an old-timer tells us what made Sandy Koufax so amazing. We learn that the beginning of his career with the Brooklyn D...

Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains

Or, The Search for a Suitable Princess

by Snyder, Laurel

Lucy, a milkmaid, and her best friend Wynston, a reluctant prince, go in search of information about Lucy's missing mother--even though Wynston is supposed to ...

Home on the Range

John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs

by Hopkinson, Deborah

Widely acclaimed for her award-winning picture books, Deborah Hopkinson presents the amazing story of John A. Lomax, the fi rst man to popularize such great Am...

Let It Begin Here!

April 19, 1775, the Day the American Revolution Began

by Brown, Don

ONE DAY THAT CHANGED A NATION A nonfiction master brings the start of the American Revolution to life. A 26-year-old King George II found himself in financial ...

Honda

The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars

by Weston, Mark

One day in 1914 when Soichiro Honda was seven years old, an astonishing, moving dust cloud appeared in his small Japanese town. The cause was a leaky, noisy au...

Little Leap Forward

A Boy in Beijing

by Yue, Guo & Farrow, Clare

A sensitively written, real-life sory about a boy called Litle Leap Forward, growing up in he hutongs of Beijing in the 1960's, at the time of the Cultural Rev...

Stitchin' and Pullin'

A Gee's Bend Quilt

by McKissack, Patricia C.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, grandmother and granddaughter, aunt and niece, friend and friend. For a hundred years, generations of women from Gee’s Bend have quilted...