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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...

How the Hangman Lost His Heart

by Grant, K. M.

When her Uncle Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in 1746 and his severed head is mounted on a pike for public viewing, daring Alice t...

Becca at Sea

by Baker, Deirdre

Becca has often gone with her parents to visit Gran at her rustic cabin by the sea. But this year Becca's mother is expecting a baby, and Becca is sent to visi...

The Bearskinner

A Tale of the Brothers Grimm

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale in which a despondent soldier makes a pact to do the devil's bidding for seven years in return for as much money and proper...

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...

Jack Plank Tells Tales

by Babbitt, Natalie

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The Red Shoe

by Dubosarsky, Ursula

Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally ...

Rex Zero and the End of the World

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his p...

How It Happened in Peach Hill

by Jocelyn, Marthe

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ...