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Barack

by Marcovitz, Hal

A story of a man of humble beginnings, the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, Africa, and the extraordinary journey he took on hi...

What's Inside?

Fascinating Structures Around the World

by Laroche, Giles

As it takes us on a tour of some of the most unique and beautiful structures, this book shows how the purpose of each structure dictated its design, or locatio...

Vermeer Interviews

by Raczka, Bob

In this innovative look at seven paintings by Jan Vermeer, author Bob Raczka takes on the role of interviewer and the people in the paintings become his willin...

What the Rat Told Me

A Legend of the Chinese Zodiac

by Sellier, Marie & Louis, Catherine & Wang, Fei

A wonderful introduction for young readers to the Chinese zodiac adapted from a Chinese Buddhist legend dating from the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD).

My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright

by Williams, Marcia L.

Marcia Williams follows a young girl's coming of age during World War II in a moving fictional journal that includes the author's own family mementos.The year ...

What Darwin Saw

The Journey That Changed the World

by Schanzer, Rosalyn

In 1831 a 22-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin stepped aboard the HMS Beagle as a traveling companion of an equally youthful sea captain called Robert F...

Dear Toni

by Sand-Eveland, Cyndi

When sixth-grader Gene Tucks moves south, she dreads being the new kid at school and almost everything else about her life as a “nobody.” But what she drea...

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 ...

One Beetle Too Many

The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin

by Lasky, Kathryn & Sorel, Edward

Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.

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...