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Elijah of Buxton

by Curtis, Christopher Paul

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and...

Outside and Inside Woolly Mammoths

by Markle, Sandra

Describes the anatomy of life of the woolly mammoths as well as why they became extinct.

Little People and a Lost World

An Anthropological Mystery

by Goldenberg, Linda

Archaeologists discovered a small humanlike skull on Flores Island during a 2003 dig. Was this an ancestor to us all or just a very small human being?

A Dog for Life

by Matthews, L. S.

When John, who has a special ability to communicate with animals, finds that his dog, Mouse is scheduled to go to the pound, he and Mouse decide to run away an...

Hidden Child

by Millman, Isaac

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Our Eleanor

A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life

by Fleming, Candace

There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentu...

Abduction!

by Kehret, Peg

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes invo...

Secrets of the Sphinx

by Giblin, James Cross

Discusses the Great Sphinx on the Giza plateau of Egypt, presenting research and speculation about it origins and future.

Buttermilk Hill

by White, Ruth

When Lindy's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own w...

Yankee Girl

by Rodman, Mary Ann

When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one bla...