Matas, Carol

"In this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction picture book, a young girl and her baby sister explore the land around them while various animals and insects look on. The art reflects the world as viewed by the animals along with the text explaining some science behind the animal's unique vision."--.

In 1962, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.

Trouble comes to the kingdom of Gepeth in the form of a flying giant, the appearance of forbidden snow, a tornado, and the loss of Princess Lenora's extraordinary mental powers.

Molly and Adam, trying to help their dad avoid a family curse in which males die the day before they turn thirty-five, investigate a suspicious accident in which their father twisted his ankle, an apparition which keeps appearing at their dead grandfather's desk, and a mysterious nurse who is a little too interested in their family.

In nineteenth-century Russia, betrayed by a fellow Jew, sixteen-year-old Aaron is taken by officers of the Czar and forced into military service.

After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds sixteenth-century France to be a dangerous place for women when her mother, a midwife and a healer, is arrested and accused of being a witch along with many other women in their village.

After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

About to be married in Coren's homeland of Andilla, Coren and Leonora discover that before the wedding can proceed they must find out why the Andillan people have lost their special powers and why Leonora is having nightmares about the evil Hevak.