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When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm

A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long before Dinosaurs

by Bonner, Hannah

Take a fun, fact-filled trip back to Earth as it was 430 million years ago. Then, watch as continents drift and oceans take shape. Watch out (!) as fish get to...

When I Crossed No-Bob

by McMullan, Margaret

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and...

Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age

by Arnold, Caroline & Clarion,

Examines the fossil bones of gigantic reptiles, such as the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, from around the world to provide a comprehensive look at the life of the...

The House of a Million Pets

by Hodgman, Ann

Ann Hodgman’s basement is home to three guinea pigs, a cage full of birds, a big gray rabbit, a prairie dog, a bulbul (look it up), two little rabbits, a ham...

Marie Curie

by Krull, Kathleen

Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that s...

Whale Port

by Foster, Mark

Long before the invention of electricity or the discovery of underground reservoirs of fossil fuels, people depended on whale oil to keep their lamps lit. A fe...

The True Meaning of Smekday

by Rex, Adam

When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to fi...

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Voices from a Medieval Village

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Ox, House, Stick

The History of Our Alphabet

by Robb, Don

Bold collage illustrations and clear prose trace the origins of our familiar letters. From the proto-Sinaitic peoples, through the Phoenicians, Greeks and Roma...

The Many Rides of Paul Revere

by Giblin, James Cross

Paul Revere is commonly remembered as a Revolutionary War hero for his legendary Midnight Ride before the 1775 battes of Lexington and Concord. But Revere was ...