Quick view Details I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project by Veronica Lawlor
Quick view Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. View Details
Quick view Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard Fleeing from war-torn Kosovo, 10-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a typical life. But with this hope comes the struggle to fit in and adapt, in a poignant story about the friendships that can overcome a cultural... View Details
Quick view I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project by Veronica Lawlor In their own words, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project. View Details
Quick view What Is the Panama Canal? by Janet B Pascal Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of... View Details
Quick view Listen Up!: Alexnder Graham Bell's Talking Machine by Monica Kulling Its 1876 and Philadelphia is hosting the Worlds Fair. Alexander Graham Bell arrives to demonstrate his talking machine he calls the telephone. But will anyone come to see him at the worlds most important science fair? And more importantly, will his... View Details
Quick view Airborne: A Photobiograhpy of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Mary Collins Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the first flight at Kittyhawk. Packed with photos of the Wright brothers, their family, and their many experiments, this photobiography reveals the lives of these men who resolved the problems of flight and... View Details
Quick view The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania. View Details
Quick view Coolies by Yin Inspired by actual events, this story reveals the harsh truth about life for the Chinese railroad workers in 1865, while celebrating their perseverance and bravery. View Details
Quick view Civil War Sub: The Mystery of Hunley by Kate Boehm Jerome In 1864 the C.S.S. "Hunley" became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship.However, the "Hunley" and its crew mysteriously vanished. More than a centuryafter the Civil War, scientists may finally have some answers. View Details
Quick view Natural Disasters by Claire Watts Describes the wide range of natural disasters that occur on Earth, including tsunamis, landslides, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, climate change, and infectious diseases. View Details
Quick view Leonardo Da Vinci by Kathleen Krull Painter, sculptor, anatomist, and inventor--Leonardo da Vinci explored all areas. His notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a 15th-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation View Details
Quick view Animals Tracks & Signs by Jinny Johnson Now kids can learn about their favorite animalsfrom cheetahs to snakesin a whole new way: from the signs they leave behind. What does a row of tracks signify? What can we tell from an accumulation of twigs left behind in the crook of a tree? What are... View Details
