Quick view After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (Paperback) Children's Literature Legacy Award 2018 A lot can happen to three girls in a two-year period--especially when the rap music of Tupac Shakur is the glue holding them together. View Details
Quick view The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. View Details
Quick view The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Words by Diane Ackerman Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world's rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a... View Details
Quick view Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas The book explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. View Details
Quick view America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar The author, a member of the Yale Law School faculty, presents a provocative examination of the historical forces--some quite surprising--that have molded the U.S. Constitution. View Details
Quick view Georgia 1521-1776 by Robin Doak Provides a history of Georgia from the arrival of European explorers in the sixteenth century to its becoming a state in 1788.;Includes bibliographical references View Details
Quick view George Washington Carver and Science & Invention in America by Cheryl Harness Harness creates another winning combination of history, biography, and illustration with the inspiring story of a man who rises from slavery to worldwide fame as America's Plant Doctor--George Washington Carver. View Details
Quick view Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. View Details
Quick view The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty James Daugherty draws on the Pilgrims' own journals to give a fresh and moving account of their life and traditions, their quest for religious freedom, and the founding of one of our nation's most beloved holidays--Thanksgiving. View Details
Quick view Freedom's Children by Ellen S Levine Thirty African-Americans who were children during the 1950s and 1960s tell their true stories of what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year. View Details
Quick view First People by David King With modern and historic images, innovative page layouts, and compelling first-person accounts, this work offers an eye-opening look at the richness and variety of North American tribes, and a moving account of the European conquest. View Details
Quick view Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull Obsessive, vindictive, and secretive, Issac Newton was also brilliant. He invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity in 17th-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions. Illustrations. View Details
