Archives: Books
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Wing Wing Brothers Carnival de Math
Those wacky birds, the Wing Wing brothers, are back and running amok at the carnival! Readers will have a terrific time laughing at their antics as the brothers show off …
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Voices From the Oregon Trail
Learn about the courageous Americans who journeyed on the Oregon Trail in this picture book perfect for the Common Core It’s 1848, and brave families band together in covered …
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How I Discovered Poetry
A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book …
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A Mad, Wicked Folly
Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more …
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Bomb
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched …
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Are You Experienced?
Rich is fifteen and plays guitar. When his girlfriend asks him to perform at protest rally, he jumps at the chance. Unfortunately, the police show up, and so does Rich’s …
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Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A …
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Boxers & Saints
In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the …
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Legacy of the Clockwork Key
When a fire consumes Meg’s home, killing her parents and destroying both her fortune and her future, all she has left is the tarnished pocket watch she rescued from the …
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Wanderville
Jack, Frances, and Frances’s younger brother Harold have been ripped from the world they knew in New York and sent to Kansas on an orphan train at the turn of …
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Alex and the Amazing Time Machine
Alex Trumble is a pretty ordinary kid—except for the fact that his IQ borders on genius, and he loves to read books on vortexes and time travel. But when two …
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Family Tree #2: The Long Way Home
Four girls. Four generations. One family. Dana is Abby’s daughter–but she’s always been much closer to her father, Zander. He’s a celebrated New York author who encourages Dana’s artistic talents…even …
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Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer
Heads will roll! Paris, France: a city of fashion, chocolate croissants, and cute boys. Colette Iselin is thrilled be there for the first time, on her spring break class …
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I Am #10: Cleopatra
I was the last pharaoh of Egypt. I am Cleopatra. As the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt, I ruled alone without the help of my husband. I was a …
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Looniverse #3: Dinosaur Disaster (A Branches Book)
In this third adventure, Ed and his friends visit a robotic, lifelike exhibit called Dinosaur Discovery. He has fun on the trip, but then ends up with a real-life dinosaur …
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Geronimo Stilton Special Edition: The Journey Through Time
Journey back in time with Geronimo in this all-new 320-page POB special edition! I, Geronimo Stilton, never expected to set paw inside a time machine. But when Professor Paws …
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Help Me Learn Addition
Bright photographs of puppets, marbles, chicks, dogs, and other fun objects; rhyming text; and a fun game help children learn to add. This book teaches children how to connect numbers …
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A Child’s Calendar
Twelve poems follow a family and their friends through the seasons. A Caldecott Honor Book.
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Time Zones
What are time zones and why do they exist? When it’s noon where you live, why is it midnight halfway around the world? This entertaining book explains why time zones …
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Goodbye My Island
Esther Atoolik is twelve years old and her Alaskan village is getting smaller; there aren’t enough children to keep the school open. What to do? the people ask. Should we …
