Rose Lee Carter, an African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955. Her world is rocked when an African-American boy, Emmett Till, is killed...
Meet Mr. Geo, everybody's favorite geography teacher He loves to explore new places. Today, he's visiting California, the Golden State. His first stop is a TV studio for a front-row seat at...
Lyle leaves his happy home with the Primms on East 88th Street to search for his mother, at the urging of his former employer, Hector P Valenti, star of stage and screen.
This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale," as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is...
In this exciting graphic novel based on the Netflix series starring Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez, Carmen Sandiego's globe-trotting capers introduce kids to the geography, culture, and...
How does Santa know how to match the exact toy with the exact kid each December? He knows because he's the world's top kid and toy and gift expert, and he works long hours taking notes,...
From the Beatles to Web sites, this bestselling sourcebook on culture contains 3,000 up-to-date definitions, 250 new definitions, an easy alphabetical arrangement and comprehensive index, 250...
The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume... Never once fails to instruct and...
Carmen Sandiego is on a mission to stop VILE, and she needs your help Get the scoop on twelve different countries, then share the sleuthing in this exciting search-and-find book with full-color...
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf żeby Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major," and "Roverandom") and one book of poems...
Showcasing the recipes many of them vegetarian that were collected from local women, fishermen, bakers, and farmers. This book is filled with lush photographs and stories of island life. It is...
In this beautifully crafted yet darkly compelling fantasy, Le Guin writes of the cruelty of power and how hard it is to grow up in a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous "gift."
Meet Princess Cimorene--a princess who refustes to be proper. She is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomobyish smart... And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with...
A cranky neighbor puts Lyle in the zoo but experiences a change of heart when the crocodile saves him from a fire. "Lyle is as lovable as ever and the story and colored pictures as...
Did you know that museums were initially temples built to worship the nine muses? That Janus was the god of doorways and hallways, and after him we have named janitors? Where did these words-and...
There are twenty-seven books in the traditional New Testament, but the early-Christian community was far more vibrant than that small number might lead you to think. Over the past century, many of...
The bestselling bible on multiple births is a comprehensive, commonsense guide that accompanies parents on their journey from conception through preschool.
If the old toy soldier hadn't come to life, Roger would never have discovered the magic. And that would never have happened if he and his sister, Ann, hadn't been sent to stay with their...
This contemporary classic, celebrating its twenty-fifth year in print, is no ordinary alphabet book. Why is "Q" for "Duck"? Because a duck quacks, of course. Even the youngest...