Discusses past and present peace leaders and movements alongside quotes about peace from around the world, with a focus on the terrorist attacks

A collection of fifteen folktales from all over the world, including stories that resemble "The Three Pigs, " "The Bremen Town Musicians, " and "

Describes the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be extinct, and subsequent research about it.

Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her

A collection of traditional stories from different parts of Africa, featuring varied characters and themes--some familiar, some newer.

A visual guide, accompanied by text, to the people, battles, and events of America's war for independence.

Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States. "Tell me how to live so many lives at once ...

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adju

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and enc

Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies trium

Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a