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When his mother is forced to cook indoors due to the monsoon season in Bangladesh, young Iqbal decides the school…
district's science fair is the perfect time to create a stove that doesn't produce smoke and harmful fumes. For grades 2-4. 2018
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Lucy join their parents on a weeklong research trip to Alaska. Benjamin observes the…
effects of climate change on glaciers and animals in a report for his school in Florida. For grades 2-4. 2010
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40s
Presents facts learned from fossilized evidence of dinosaur species that roamed the North American continent millions of years ago, like…
the Stegosaurus of Colorado. Discusses size, eating habits, head crests, skull shapes, tail clubs, raptor claws, and dinosaur descendants. For grades 3-6. 2009
California, 1970. After leaving San Francisco for a small town, Craig, a Chinese American eighth-grader, finds it hard to fit…
in. He also has difficulty pleasing his father, who wants him to excel in sports. For grades 6-9. 1979
The author-illustrator continues his childhood recollections in this sequel to Here We All Are (DB 50343). He recounts the family's…
concern when his baby sister got pneumonia, their trip to the 1939 World's Fair, his dance recital, and starting first grade. For grades 2-4. 2001
In 1898, Java is a race- and caste-dominated Netherlands Indies society. Minke, a Javanese student at a Dutch high school,…
falls in love with mixed-blood Annelies. He is enthralled with her family's story: her belligerent father; her concubine mother, who runs the family business; and her resentful brother and step-brother. Eventually the unrest in both the land and the family wreak havoc on Minke's own life. Some descriptions of sex
After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered…
his best magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills". In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt "to fathom the place where we live... to decipher who we are."
"Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and…
his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a wolf named OR-7 (or Journey), this irresistible tale of survival invites listeners to experience and imagine what it would be like to be one of the most misunderstood animals on earth." -- Provided by publisher
Puppy Petey wants a boy for Christmas more than anything else in the world. Just when it looks as if…
no boys are to be found, he stumbles upon a special home. For preschool-grade 2. 1958
The Herdmans are the worst kids in town, so when they take over the lead roles in the church's annual…
Christmas pageant, they cause quite a commotion. For grades 4-7. 1972
Port Protection, Alaska. Sixteen-year-old Robbie signs on with captain Tor Torsen to fish for salmon. Robbie realizes he's in danger…
when he discovers Torsen secretly searching for valuable metal plaques laid by early Russian explorers to claim Alaska. Then a storm hits, imperiling them both. For senior high readers. 2004
"Before her grandchildren climbed the towering tree, explored its secret nests, raced to its sturdy trunk, read in its cool…
shade, or made pies with its pecans...Nell buried a seed. And just as with Nell's love and care, her tree grows and thrives--so do generations of her close-knit family." -- book jacket. For preschool to grade 2
"Today Meena and her nanu (grandmother) are having a tea party with a special Bengali tea called doodh cha, and…
even though Meena is impatient, she learns that it's worth the wait to make the special tea together"-- Provided by publisher
What kind of valentine would you send to a puppy or a kitten or your mother or big brother? Enjoy…
and be inspired by a young boy's special way of making cards that no loved one can resist! For preschool to grade 2