When the Founding Fathers decided on a flag for the United States, they didn't specify how it should look. So Americans came up with their own designs.
When Zebulon's family is stuck without a horse and offered help only from a crooked swindler, Zebulon manages to use the family's famous biscuit recipe to fix things.
Highlight presents Owney the Mail Dog by Kim Varner. In the 1890s, Owney the dog traveled all over the U.S. and the world on postal trains and became the unofficial mascot of the Postal Service.
Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. From the Middle Passage to the auction block, from the whipping post to the fight for freedom, this book presents not just historical facts, but the raw emotions of the people who lived them. Inspired by Rod Brown's vivid paintings, Julius Lester has written a text that places each of us squarely inside the skin of both slave and slaveowner. It will capture the heart of every reader, black or white, young or old.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
A Booklist Editors' Choice Book
From No. 1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams comes his biggest and most epic adventure yet!
This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth...
Read all about it! Read all about it!
ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC!
When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more...
A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime - from London to the heart of the Arctic!
Heroes come in all different shapes and sizes in David Walliams' biggest and most epic adventure yet!
*All is going well for Zombie Steve – until the tides change*
Young, adventurous Zombie Steve has everything going for him. He adores his lovely girlfriend Viv, and his construction business is booming. In fact, he has just won a bid to build a new colony on the Isle of Mists.
Everything seems to be going his way – until he mysteriously winds up on what he thought was an uninhabited island on his boat that was originally headed for the Isle of Mists. The key word here is thought: to his surprise, there is a legion of rabbit guardians *protecting a dangerous secret*. Trouble ensues when the rabbits and Steve realize they have a visitor: a zombie pigman with unusual strength. Steve knows what he has to do: help the rabbits and find a way out of the island.
Will Steve find his way home? Or will the ocean put a damper on his plans? The only way to know is to read Shipwrecked!
Shipwrecked is an imaginative, colorful tale that your child will adore, just in time for the holiday season!
