Quick view Details 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A by Tonya Bolden
Quick view Details Unbroked: A World War II Story of Suvival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Quick view Details There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by alex Kotlowitz
Quick view Details The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Quick view Details Paddle to the Arctic: The Incredible Story of a Kayak Quest Across the Roof of the World by Don Starkell
Quick view 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A by Tonya Bolden Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children's librarian, historians, and many more, this latest addition to the 33 Things series provides an engaging, inspiring, informative look at the role... View Details
Quick view Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp, and discusses the school that was built for their children. View Details
Quick view The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension hc by Joy Hakim Beginning with a journey through space and Albert Einstein riding on a light beam, Hakim takes a lively and accessible look at the theory of relativity, chaos theory, and string theory, showing throughout how the greatest scientific discoveries often... View Details
Quick view Zodiac by Robert Graysmith Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of the killer's communiques to the police as well as the author's own... View Details
Quick view Zeitoun by Dave Eggers When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. After the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A... View Details
Quick view Unbroked: A World War II Story of Suvival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman,... View Details
Quick view True Notebooks: a Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman Chronicles the author's first year teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders. View Details
Quick view There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by alex Kotlowitz This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect. View Details
Quick view The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower. View Details
Quick view The Acorn People by Ron James The author's experiences as a camp counselor for severely handicapped children. View Details
Quick view Stories of Scottsboro by Jame E Goodman An astonishing and innovative retelling of one of the landmark cases in the civil rights battles of this century--in which nine young black men were tried and convicted three separate times for raping two white women, and were finally freed by the... View Details
Quick view Paddle to the Arctic: The Incredible Story of a Kayak Quest Across the Roof of the World by Don Starkell After his astounding 12,000-mile canoe trip from Winnipeg down to the Amazon (recounted in his bestseller Paddle to the Amazon on page 48), Don Starkell decided to paddle a kayak from Hudson Bay 3,000 miles through the Northwest Passage. This is Don's... View Details
