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Ubiquitous

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

by Sidman, Joyce

From the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems . . .Ubiquitous (yoo-bik-wi-tuhs): Something that is (or seems to ...

Ron's big mission

by Naden, Corinne J. & Tate, Don & Blue, Rose

One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on check...

Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

The Retired Kid

by Agee, Jon

"It's been a wonderful eight years, but I need a break." At the Happy Sunset Retirement Community, there's Ethel, Myrtle, Harvey, and Tex. And then there's Bri...

Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln

by George, Judith W. & St George, Judith & Faulkner, Matt

Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a yea...

Knock, Knock!

by Not Available

The knock-knock joke: a kid classic. So many funny, punny punchlines. It was just screaming for its own book. To do this classic joke justice, we decided to ga...

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together

by Hoberman, Mary Ann

Classic Mother Goose rhymes in color-coded typography let young children read along with an adult.

Brothers in Hope

The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

by Williams, Mary L. & Christie, Gregory

Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethi...

Langston's Train Ride

by Burleigh, Robert & Jenkins, Leonard

Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The...

Hachiko

The True Story of a Loyal Dog

by Turner, Pamela S.

Relates the true story of a dog who accompanied his master to and from a Tokyo train station for a year and, after his master died, continued to wait for him t...