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The Romans: Gory Gladiators and Cruel Conquerors
From the Series Deadly History
From fighting as a gladiator through being fed to the lions, daily life in the Roman Empire was pretty deadly! Readers will love digging up the past and finding out just how horrible it was… Read More →
The Vikings: Raids of Terror and Bloody Battles
From the Series Deadly History
From fighting bloodthirsty battles through being sacrificed to the gods, daily life in the Viking world was pretty deadly! Readers will love digging up the past and finding out just how… Read More →
Tracking a Killer: Using Science to Solve Homicides
From the Series Crime Science
When a murder is committed, crime investigators do all they can to solve the crime—and stop the criminal before they strike again. This fascinating book shows readers how the very latest… Read More →
We Planted a Pumpkin
From the Series In the Garden
Two children plant a pumpkin seed together and nurture the growing plant through the seasons. The plant flowers and a pumpkin forms, but will it change color and be ripe and ready to harvest… Read More →
Wolves: And Their Food Chains
From the Series Food Chain Kings
Armed with lethal fangs, endless endurance, and an incredible intelligence, the wolf is an amazing predator! Readers will discover how the apex hunter tracks down and kills its prey with… Read More →
Luis de Torres Sails to Freedom
Luis de Torres is a secret Jew, a Catholic convert, who, in his heart, remains Jewish. When the Inquisition comes and Jews are forced to leave Spain, Luis decides to join a sailing expedition Read More →
Men of the 65th: The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
Honor and Fidelity. That is the motto of the 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers, the only Puerto Rican unit in the United States Army. Since the regiment’s creation in… Read More →
Sasquatch and Squirrel
Deep in the forest, Strawberry the Sasquatch is very happy on her own. She keeps busy doing all the alone things a Sasquatch does: sneaking, dance moves, foraging, haircare, and more. But… Read More →
The Weight of Everything
It’s been six months since Sarah’s mom died. Three months since her dad fell apart. Sarah has left her fine arts boarding school to take care of her dad and her little brother, and now she’s… Read More →
Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the Hungry
Hunger continues to be an international problem. This true story of how one ordinary person did something extraordinary shows how everyone can do something to make a difference. Readers will Read More →
Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways We Can Save Our Planet
Who do you think of when you imagine a climate scientist? Maybe a biologist? Or a chemist? But economists study the climate too! Meet fourteen different scientists who are working to solve… Read More →
Indigo and Ida
When eighth grader and aspiring journalist Indigo breaks an important story, exposing an unfair school policy, she's suddenly popular for the first time. The friends who've recently drifted… Read More →
Not So Shy
Twelve-year-old Shai hates everything about moving to America from Israel. She's determined to come up with a plan that will get her back home. Maybe she can go back with her grandparents… Read More →
Patterns Everywhere
Step outside. Let's find designs— / branching, cracking, spirals, lines. / Search the earth, the seas, the air. / Patterns, patterns everywhere. Look around and discover patterns in the… Read More →
Rise to the Sky: How the World's Tallest Trees Grow Up
What is the tallest living thing? It's not an elephant, or a giraffe, or even a blue whale. It's a tree! Trees are the tallest living things on Earth. But how do they grow to be so tall?… Read More →
What's That, Jack?
A fun read-aloud picture book to spark imaginative play and have preschoolers joining in with delight. Jack and George are resting quietly when BOOM! A huge and strange ball lands beside… Read More →
Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons
Discover the true story of an orphaned mallard duckling being raised by a pair of loons. On a lake in northern Wisconsin in 2019, loon researchers were surprised to discover a mother and… Read More →
Kind Crocodile
A kind crocodile leaves his pond to see the world, in this fresh and playful new board book from New York Times Illustrated Book Award winning author Leo Timmers. Animals are in danger—help,… Read More →
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
“Permit me to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative . . .” Olaudah Equiano was a writer and abolitionist whose autobiography, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, captured… Read More →
Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karikó and the Race for the Future of Vaccines
The first-ever picture book biography about Dr. Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Growing up in a small Hungarian town, Kati Karikó was curious about… Read More →
The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent
Eighteen-year-old Del is in a healthier place than she was a year and a half ago: She’s sober, getting treatment for her depression and anxiety, and volunteering at a suicide-prevention… Read More →
Enly and the Buskin' Blues
Twelve-year-old Enly Wu Lewis needs to go to band camp this summer. It’ll help him follow in the footsteps of his dad, a musician who died when Enly was too young to even remember him. Enly… Read More →
The Bear and the Wildcat
A picture book with delicate illustrations that explains the path of grief, ending with the uplifting new beginning of a budding friendship based on understanding. A Kirkus Reviews Best… Read More →
Cleaning Up Transportation: It's Time to Take Eco Action!
From the Series Eco Action
Earth is under threat. Today, our planet faces huge challenges as a result of human actions. The time has come to replace those negative actions with positive ones—it's time to take eco… Read More →