Each photograph in Hungry Hearted Kids captures the story behind a child’s eyes. It ignites a desire to listen to the unheard passions, joys and pain of innocent hearts. It aids us all to connect to a larger world view and motivates a...
Juvenile nonfiction
- Author:Willis, Raelynn, Gowey, BrandieSummary:
- Author:Manolis, KaySummary:
Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of hurricanes. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade.
- Author:O'Hara, Mo.Summary:
Bedtime goes out of this world with Hush, Little Rocket, a new picture book by New York Times -bestselling author Mo O'Hara! Hush, Little Rocket, don't make a bleep. We're heading home now, it's time to sleep. At the end of a very long...
- Author:Auerbacher, IngeSummary:
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.
- Author:Meltzer, BradSummary:
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling book biography series about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our...
- Author:Meltzer, BradSummary:
Deeply influential cultural icon Oprah Winfrey is the twenty-fifth hero in this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series, adapted for audio. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes...
- Author:Parks, Rosa, Haskins, JamesSummary:
The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
- Author:Camlot, HeatherSummary:
This book is a look at rules and laws that have been created around the world over many years, divided into four sections: people problems, sports zone, entertainment interrupted, and kid concerns. It features some of the funniest,...
- Author:Konrad, Marla StewartSummary:
Through pictures and text, the book introduces themes that show how much we share in common, no matter how different we look, what language we speak, or where on Earth we live.
- Author:Andrews McMeel PublishingSummary:
Love can truly make you feel out of this world. This delightful book, packed with heartfelt quotations from romantics old and new, is the perfect way to say, I love you to the moon and back.
- Author:Wick, WalterSummary:
Rhyming text leads the reader to find objects hidden in the photographs.
- Author:Tarshis, LaurenSummary:
The author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series brings us more harrowing true stories of real kids up against terrible forces of nature. From fourteen-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks of 1916, to nine-year-old...
- Author:Alifirenka, Caitlin, Ganda, Martin, Welch, LizSummary:
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown foreign student. In Zimbabwe Martin received a letter than started a six year friendship. In this compelling memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became...
- Author:Mozes Kor, Eva.Summary:
The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust. Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish...
- Author:Wendorff, AnneSummary:
Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of ice storms. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade.
- Author:Stephenson, Wendy, Downey, AutumnSummary:
Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have...
- Author:Smith, David J.Summary:
Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown...
- Author:McCann, JackieSummary:
Help your child become a global citizen with this accessible introduction to the people who live on our planet, with big ideas broken into bite-size chunks through clever graphic design. Perfect for home and classroom settings! With...
- Author:MacIsaac, Kathie, Nelson, ColleenSummary:
In this full-color, nonfiction resource, profiles of twenty-five diverse individuals share how each person got interested in their field, how they studied or trained for it, how others typically study or train for it, and their...
- Author:Weisman, KaySummary:
A non-fiction picture book about sea gardens, also known as clam gardens, which have been found all along the Pacific northwest coast. Some of them are at least 2000 years old. Created by Indigenous peoples to provide a reliable food...