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Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Mo Jackson is a little boy with a big passion for sports. He may not be the biggest, the strongest, or the fastest player, but he won't let that stop him from playing! <P><P>Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins, his football team. His classmates don't... More

The first African American to play in the major leagues.... More

A Holocaust survivor shares Hanukkah with a loving family that gives him the courage to remember.... More

It's Cam Jansen's first day of fifth grade and she and her friend Eric can't wait to meet their new teacher. But the first day turns out to be way more exciting than they expected when the teacher gets hauled away by the police. <P><P><i> Lexile Levels: 210-450</i>... More

Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic.... More

When did Pilgrims first say "God Bless America?" The first time they heard America sneeze. Why did the farmer put suntan lotion on his turkey? He liked dark meat. What are unhappy cranberries called? Blueberries Why did the Indians whisper? The corn had ears. New and original riddles mixed w... More

Florence Nightingale was the daughter of a rich family from England, but she felt that her life could be so much more. She decided to become a nurse and because of her we have clean hospitals and good nursing care. This biography for younger readers tells the life of Florence and her incredible wo... More

Bones and his parents got Grandpa a special present for his birthday. But by the time they all make it to the party, the gift is gone. How could it have disappeared so quickly? Will detective Jeffrey Bones be able to solve the mystery and sing “Happy Birthday” to Grandpa? Written by the author of th... More

A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.... More

A simple biography of the noted black track star who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.... More

Uses cheese slices, pretzel sticks, a slice of bread, graph paper, a pencil, and more to introduce various polygons, flat shapes with varying numbers of straight sides. ... More

Two sets of twins catch a thief while tracking down a missing suitcase in a train station.... More

A biography of the Shoshone woman who joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ... More

Surveys the life of Benjamin Franklin, highlighting his work as an inventor and statesman.... More

A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century. ... More

A brief biography of the African American scientist who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture. ... More

A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf. ... More

From the Book jacket: Who has chalk on her fingers and wheels on her feet? A teacher on roller skates. What would you get if Dracula was your teacher? Lots of tests-blood tests. What would a witch study in school? Spelling. This collection of riddles, many of them original, is accompani... More

From the Book Jacket: Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in 1797 in Hurley, New York. Her parents named her Isabella, but she renamed herself Sojourner Truth years later, when she was free. Isabella worked for many different masters before joining a religious community called the "Kingdom of God... More

From the Book jacket: Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Christopher Columbus dreamed of going to sea. He knew the earth was round, and planned a voyage west into the unknown waters of the Atlantic to reach the Indies. But it wasn't until he was 41 years old that Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Sp... More

From the Book Jacket: Which dogs make the best librarians? Hush puppies. How do you lift a heavy duck? With a quacker jack. How do pigs keep from getting a suntan? They wear oinkment. These and other wacky animal riddles, many of them original, are highlighted by Tomie dePaola's hilari... More

A baseball team of children no one else wants on a team turns into a team of winners with the help of a friendly boy ghost.... More

Andy and Tamika can’t wait for a weekend of fun in the big city, but Tamika’s aunt Mandy has planned trips to boring museums and fancy restaurants. Even worse, someone is dropping hamsters off the top of Aunt Mandy’s building, causing trouble everywhere . . . and getting Andy blamed. It’s a big-city... More

Traces the life of the Yankees' star ballplayer, focusing on his character and his struggle with the terminal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.... More

Mo is the star of his school's track-and-field meet in the sixth title of the perenially popular, Geisel Award-winning series by David A. Adler!Mo and his classmates from 2B will compete against the students from class 2M in a track-and-field meet and the winning team will get a surprise dessert! Mo... More