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A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun?
From the Series Words Are CATegorical ®
What is a noun? It's easier to show than explain—and this book is brimming with examples. Author Brian Cleary and illustrator Jenya Prosmitsky creatively clarify the concept of nouns for… Read More →
All About Hanukkah
The story of Hanukkah complete with candle blessings, rules for playing dreidel and other games, recipes, songs, and thoughts on miracles, giving, and more. Read More →
Girl Power in the Classroom: A Book About Girls, Their Fears, and Their Future
From the Series Girl Power
Girl Power in the Classroom focuses on the confidence girls need to succeed in school. This down-to-earth book explores the many reasons that keep girls from speaking up in class, asking… Read More →
Girl Power in the Family: A book about Girls, Their Rights, and Their Voice
From the Series Girl Power
In a twist that makes this book unlike any other, Girl Power in the Family talks directly to girls about how they can collaberate with their families to gain the support they need. This book… Read More →
Girl Power in the Mirror: A Book about Girls, Their Bodies, and Themselves
From the Series Girl Power
This book tackles the questions girls have about their bodies and their looks. Author Helen Cordes asked dozens of girls around the country how they feel about themselves. She shares their… Read More →
Girl Power on the Playing Field: A Book about Girls, Their Goals, and Their Struggles
From the Series Girl Power
Girls around the country speak out about the problems and stereotypes they face when it comes to sports. Girl Power on the Playing Field also discusses how sports can affect girls' minds as… Read More →
Words Are CATegorical ® — Paperback Set
From the Series Words Are CATegorical ®
The best-selling Words Are CATegorical® series introduces young readers to different types of words through rhyming verse and illustrations of comical cartoon cats. Offering a lighthearted… Read More →
Celebrating
From the Series Small World
What do people celebrate in different parts of the world? A winning soccer game? Holidays or birthdays? Young readers will find out in Celebrating. A Book-of-the-Month Club Featured Alternate Read More →
Laura Ingalls Wilder
From the Series On My Own Biography
Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up listening to her Pa's fascinating tales about living on the prairies, in the woods, and on the plains. When she was 65 years old, Laura began to write down her… Read More →
My Very Own Haggadah: A Seder Service for Young Children
This child's first seder service features the story of Passover, an explanation of holiday symbols, and seder blessings and songs. With bright pictures to color, plus recipes and craft ideas, Read More →
The Kids' Invention Book
From the Series Kids' Ventures
Turning dreams into inventions can be a challenge, but lots of kids do it every day. The Kids' Invention Book takes kids step-by-step through the creative process, from finding the… Read More →
What Is a Scientist?
From the Series What Is...?
Simple text and full-color photographs depict children engaged in various activities that make up the scientific process: asking questions, noticing details, drawing what they see, taking… Read More →
The Play's the Thing: A Story about William Shakespeare
From the Series Creative Minds Biographies
The year was 1569 and the place was Stratford-on-Avon. A little boy watched a company of traveling actors perform on a makeshift stage. No one could have known that the child, whose name was… Read More →
All About Rosh Hashanah
With its delightful folktales, songs, and blessings, this illustrated introduction to Rosh Hashanah captures the essence of the holiday of renewal. Read More →
Booker T. Washington
From the Series On My Own Biography
More than anything, nine-year-old Booker T. Washington longed to go to school, but he had to get a job to earn money for his family. Though the Civil War had freed them from slavery, Booker's Read More →
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine
From the Series On My Own History
In 1957, nine teenagers were chosen to be the first black students to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. A small group of people in Little Rock, including the… Read More →
The Copper Lady
From the Series On My Own History
The boat creaked and moaned as the storm's waves smashed into the ship. Down in the hold, Andre‚ sat between crates that held the great copper lady, the Statue of Liberty. They were on their… Read More →
Writer of the Plains: A Story about Willa Cather
From the Series Creative Minds Biographies
From the time she was a young child, Willa Cather had a gift with words and she loved stories. As a child on the Nebraska prairie, she heard many stories from her neighbors, many of them… Read More →
The Road to Seneca Falls: A Story about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From the Series Creative Minds Biographies
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a little girl in the early 1800s, she realized that most people seemed to think that boys were better than girls. As Stanton grew up, she saw that women had… Read More →
The Snow Walker
From the Series On My Own History
One morning in March 1888, twelve-year-old Milton Daub awoke to find the world buried in snow. The blizzard was like nothing Milton and his neighbors in the Bronx had ever seen. No one dared… Read More →
Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave
From the Series We Are Still Here: Native Americans Today
Jaclyn Roessel live in Kayenta, Arizona, on the Navajo reservation. Like most young girls, Jaclyn has many interests. She likes her math class, she plays basketball and volleyball, and she… Read More →
Caves
From the Series Nature in Action
Bit by bit, over thousands or even millions of years, water carves and shapes rock into designs only nature could create. Deep in limestone or under a few feet of hardened lava, on an ocean… Read More →
Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein
From the Series Trailblazer Biographies
What do you think of when you hear the name Albert Einstein? Perhaps you picture an old man with rumpled clothing, a halo of wild white hair, and an impish grin. You might know that he… Read More →
Chocolate by Hershey: A Story about Milton S. Hershey
From the Series Creative Minds Biographies
Milton Hershey loved candy. As a boy, he saved his hard-earned pennies for the candy store. He soon discovered that he had a gift for making delicious treats and, after years of trying,… Read More →