You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Every year Angela's older sister outshines her at Halloween, until one year Angela creates her own special costume.
The reader is invited to consider some things about when, who, and how to hug and also advised to be prepared to receive one in return.
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of helping the Resistance, Odette is sent to the French countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, Odette leads the life of a regular girl, going to school, doing chores, even attending Catholic masses with other children. But inside, she is burning with secrets for the life she left behind, and the identity she must hide at all costs. Yet when the war ends, the cost of keeping secrets takes an unexpected toll: can Odette return to Paris as a Jew, or has she changed too much? Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyer, this moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity.
Amy and Lisa's friendship is jeopardized by a competition over who can have the most pink things.
Finding and keeping friends is important. What do you need to do––or not do––to have friends? Helping them is good. Keeping a secret is, too. Paying attention, sharing, and doing things together are important. And don't forget to be kind, and stick up for them.
When her mother chastises her for taking her little brother out on a blueberry-picking adventure, Rosie decides to run away.
A young girl discovers the importance of her small role in a ballet recital.
An illustrated account of the childhood of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the early twentieth century.
An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin’s formative years and adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography/Memoir Charles Darwin—alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein—ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle's voyage is frequently misunderstood, its mission and geo...
Little Hippo is upset when he has to get glasses until he makes a surprising new friend who helps him accept his new look.