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The secret project
By Jonah Winter, Jeanette Winter. 2017
At a former boy's school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world's greatest scientists have gathered to work…
on the "Gadget," an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. For grades K-3. 2017Frida
By Jonah Winter, Ana Juan. 2002
Born and bred in the Great Depression
By Jonah Winter, Kimberly Bulcken Root. 2011
During the Great Depression, the author's father grew up with seven siblings in a tiny house on the edge of…
town. Shares the family history in a clear, honest, and accessible way for young readers. For grades K-3. 2011Little Pennsylvania (The little series)
By Trinka Hakes Noble, Jeannie Brett. 2010
Diego
By Jonah Winter, Jeanette Winter. 1991
This story of Diego Rivera, the greatest muralist of Mexico--and of the world--shows how his passion for painting and love…
for his country combined to make a powerful art celebrating the Mexican people. Told in Spanish and English. For grades 2-4. 1991I dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
By Debbie Levy, Elizabeth Baddeley. 2016
Traces the achievements of the celebrated Supreme Court justice through the lens of her many famous acts of civil disagreement…
against inequality, unfair treatment, and human rights injustice. For grades 3-6The firehouse light
By Janet Nolan, Marie Lafrance. 2010
The Stourbridge Lion: America's first locomotive
By Steven Walker, Karl Zimmermann. 2012
On August 8, 1829, the Stourbridge Lion, the first commercial steam locomotive in America to run on wooden railroad tracks,…
left Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The birth of the American railroad had begun. For grades 2-4. 2012Healthy foods from A to Z: Comida sana de la A a la Z
By Renée Comet, Stephanie Maze. 2012
Colorful healthy food icons of apples to zucchini are arranged in alphabetical order portraying various facial emotions. Vocabulary is in…
English and Spanish and includes a nutritional glossary. For preschool-grade 2Sing, don't cry
By Angela Dominguez. 2017
Once a year, Abuelo comes to visit from Mexico and he always brings his guitar. Based on the life story…
of Apolinar Navarrete Diaz (the author's grandfather and successful mariachi musician). In English with some Spanish. For preschool-grade 2Drum dream girl: how one girl's courage changed music
By Margarita Engle, Rafael López. 2015
In Cuba in the 1930s, music filled the air. Millo had a dream playing drums of all kinds, but the…
country and her father only permitted boys to play drums. Millo finds a way to drum and practices in secret. Eventually her father relents and hires a music teacher for her. Millo's persistance means that she and her sisters become the first all-girl dance band in Cuba and play with and for famous people. (Story inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga.) For grades K-3Larry gets lost in Seattle (Larry gets lost)
By Robert Schwartz, John Skewes, Michael Mullin. 2007
Pete and his dog Larry are about to take a trip to Seattle, but there's so much to see that…
Larry gets distracted and finds himself lost in the Emerald City. Join Pete as he looks for his missing friend around the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, and Pioneer Square. For preschool-grade 2Count to sleep: Seattle (Count To Sleep)
By Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper, Joe Veno. 2014
Elizabeth, queen of the seas
By Lynne Cox, Brian Floca. 2014
Describes how an elephant seal made a home in New Zealand's narrow Avon River and loved to stretch out across…
a two-lane road, requiring volunteers to tow her farther out to sea after she kept returning repeatedly. For preschool-grade 2Flying eagle
By Deborah Kogan Ray, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. 2009
Our neighbor is a strange, strange man (Orchard HC Picture Books)
By Inc. Staff Scholastic, Tres Seymour. 1999
Mr. Lincoln's boys: being the mostly true adventures of Abraham Lincoln's trouble-making sons, Tad and Willie
By Staton Rabin, Bagram Ibatoulline. 2008
The skin you live in
By Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko. 2005
Of thee I sing: a letter to my daughters
By Barack Obama, Loren Long. 2010
In a letter to his daughters, Barack Obama reflects on the traits of thirteen groundbreaking Americans, such as Georgia O'Keeffe,…
Jackie Robinson, and George Washington, and shares how children embody them. For grades K-3Nubs: the true story of a mutt, a marine & a miracle
By Kirby Larson, Brian Dennis, Mary Nethery, Major Brian Dennis. 2009
Chronicles the friendship between Marine Major Brian Dennis and Nubs, a pack leader of wild dogs in Iraq who bonded…
with Dennis, but when Dennis was relocated seventy miles away and could not bring the dog with him, Nubs traveled across the freezing desert to find his human friend. For grades K-3