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Cover: Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the Hungry

Food for Hope

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 feel encouraged to find their own way to make a difference. Real life… View →

 
Cover: Oils (Just a Bit) to Keep Your Body Fit: What Are Oils?

Food Is CATegorical ™

The Words Are CATegorical® cats are back, and they’re hungry for knowledge . . . about food! Brian P. Cleary provides a playful look at the food groups and physical activity. His zany rhymes and Martin Goneau’s comical cartoon cats introduce key concepts and give a wide… View →

 
Cover: Forensic Identification: Putting a Name and Face on Death

Forensic Identification

About 4,000 unidentified deceased persons are discovered in the United States every year. But forensic experts are successful in identifying about 3,000 of those bodies within a year. In Forensic Identification: Putting a Name and Face on Death, forensic anthropologist Dr.… View →

 
Cover: Forgotten Bones: Uncovering a Slave Cemetery

Forgotten Bones

An ordinary construction project uncovers an extraordinary archaeological discovery. Imagine you’re watching a backhoe dig up the ground for a construction project when a round object rolls down a pile of dirt and stops at your feet. You pick it up,… View →

 
Cover: Forsooth

Forsooth

Thirteen-year-old Calvin knows he’s destined to be a star. . . if he can just stop making embarrassing mistakes onstage, like getting stuck on a single line—"Forsooth!"—and then falling off the stage during the school play. The summer after… View →

 
Cover: For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation

For the Good of Mankind?

Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents’ informed consent. Result: The world’s first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than… View →

 
Cover: Four Bad Unicorns

Four Bad Unicorns

Frankie and her sister are unicorn crazy! Today, they’re playing their favorite unicorn game, but when their bossy friend Ada arrives with her brother to play, she takes over the game—and takes over Frankie’s wheelchair—putting them all in unicorn prison.… View →

 
Cover: Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-or-Break Moment

Fourth Down and Inches

When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment—fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last… View →

 
Cover: Monster Match: Book 1

Frankinschool

While Fred is out sick, a visiting author signs Fred’s book “To Frank.” Then Fred’s desk-mate Luisa suggests Fred must really be Frank in school, and an idea for Fred’s creative writing assignment is born. Fred’s What-If poem is coming together… View →

 
Cover: Frank's Red Hat

Frank's Red Hat

Frank is a penguin with ideas. Mostly terrible ones. That’s why his fellow penguins are nervous when he shows them his strange new creation. It was something they’d never seen or expected to see in their cold and colorless Antarctic world—a red hat. View →

 
Cover: Frank, Who Liked to Build: The Architecture of Frank Gehry

Frank, Who Liked to Build

One building looks like it’s been wrapped in tinfoil. Another looks like it’s buried under a pile of paint chips. Frank Gehry has been called “the most important architect of our age.” As a child, his parents thought of him as nothing but a dreamer. But Frank kept View →

 
Cover: Freedom Braids

Freedom Braids

Gather the midnight strands, tend the roots that gave you life, weave hopes into pathways— paths that lead you home. Day after day, Nemy sows seeds, pulls weeds, and strips leaves in the sugarcane plantation where she is enslaved.… View →

 
Cover: Fugly

Fugly

A wrenchingly honest, thought-provoking exploration of a girl judged and dismissed by society who must break the cycle of shaming that traps her in her real life and comforts her in her online one. In real life, eighteen-year-old Beth is overweight, shy, and geeky. View →

 
Cover: Funeral Girl

Funeral Girl

Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run—especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts. With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With… View →

 
Cover: Lying Around

Funny Bone Readers ™ — Developing Character

Funny Bone Readers™—Developing Character books help beginning readers learn through laughter by introducing key concepts for success in school and at play. View →

 
Cover: The Runner King

Funny Bone Readers ™ — Living Healthy

Funny Bone Readers help beginning readers learn through laughter by introducing key concepts for success in school and at play. The twelve-book series addresses bullying, physical and dental health, safety, and healthy eating. View →

 
Cover: Gallows Hill

Gallows Hill

Salem, Massachusetts – 1692 Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he’s outnumbered and distrusted by Salem’s Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to… View →

 
Cover: Sonia Sotomayor: First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Gateway Biographies

Discover the human side of newsworthy, historical, and pop culture figures, and learn about people leading key social movements or handling crises. Each biography in this easy-reading series is peppered with quotations and stories, accounts of successes and failures, and descriptions of… View →

 
Cover: Genomics: A Revolution in Health and Disease Discovery

Genomics

Over the past 50 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the application of genetic research to human health care and disease treatment. Innovative tools and techniques, including gene therapy and CRISPR-Cas9 editing, can treat inherited disorders… View →

 
Cover: Drawn to Friends: Georgie Dupree

Georgie Dupree

The Georgie Dupree series is for new and emerging readers, featuring a vibrant Black elementary student, a loving Black family that reminds you of your own, and classmates of all backgrounds and abilities. The series teaches children how to solve their own problems in… View →

 
Cover: From a Tiny Seed to a Mighty Tree: How Plants Grow

Get Started with STEM

This vibrant, colorful science series brings STEM to life and gets your students thinking and working like scientists. Readers will get to ask and answer questions; make observations; collect, record, and analyze data; perform tests; use simple scientific… View →

 
Cover: Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th-Century Colonial Homestead

Ghost Walls

In 1638, John Lewger made a home in the wilderness of the New World, in a place called Maryland. He named his house St. John’s, and for nearly eighty years, it was the center of an ambitious English plan to build a new kind of community on American soil. Men and women lived and… View →

 
Cover: Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea

Giant Rays of Hope

Off the coast of Perú, gentle giants swim beneath the waves. Thanks to the work of Kerstin Forsberg, giant manta rays have become a symbol of hope for ocean conservation in the region. Mantas are a flagship species, and when they’re protected, the whole ocean ecosystem benefits.… View →

 
Cover: Girls on the Line

Girls on the Line

A powerful, dual-narrative coming-of-age story set in 2009 China. Luli has just turned sixteen and finally aged out of the orphanage where she’s spent the last eight years. Her friend Yun has promised to help her get work. Yun loves the independence… View →