Tells the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's extinction in the United States, describing the encounters between this species and humans, and

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went t

Explores the life of the dangerous and destructive dictator Adolf Hitler whose aggressive foreign policies set off World War II and caused the de

Describes the September 11 attacks in the United States and presents several personal stories of tragedy told by New Yorkers who lived through th

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summ

In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic r

Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Raising Ourselves i

Brings together eighteenth century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin.

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought gave Hitler his

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Mari

When the Twolegs destroy the warrior Clans' forest home, Graystripe₂second in command of ThunderClan₂is captured trying to help his comrades esca