Quick view The New Americans: Colonial Times: 1620-1689 by Betsy Maestro The New Americans is the story of the colonists -- the more than two hundred thousand new Americans -- who came over from Europe and struggled to build a home for themselves in a new world. View Details
Quick view The New York Colony by Kevin Cunningham A history of New York colony, from its earliest Indian inhabitants, to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, the English takeover, and the lead-up to the Revolutionary War and its aftermath. View Details
Quick view The Penny Pot by Stuart J Murphy The face painting booth at the school fair provides plenty of opportunities to count combinations of coins adding up to fifty. View Details
Quick view The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover Kingsolver's national bestseller paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. Examine how the tragedy of the Price family mirrors the... View Details
Quick view The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl living in the mid 1800s. Omakayas and her family are now on the move as white settlers force them further into the West. Illustrations. View Details
Quick view The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS" is a beautifully drawn... View Details
Quick view The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot Fourteen-year-old Mia, who's trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that... View Details
Quick view The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable. View Details
Quick view The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore View Details
Quick view The Selection by Kiera Cass For 35 girls, the Selection is a dream come true. The chance to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To live in a castle and compete to win the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. The first in... View Details
Quick view The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson Here is the story of Muna, an illegitimate Japanese boy, who searches for his unknown father--a samurai warrior with a chrysanthemum tattoo on his arm--during the 12th-century wars between the Genki... View Details
Quick view The Story of the Statue of Liberty by Giulio Maestro The Statue of Liberty has welcomed millions of immigrants to America since 1886. But her story really began 15 years earlier, when the French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi visited New York to plan the... View Details
