juvenile literature

Examines the pros and cons of using plant and animal waste to meet our growing demand for electricity.

An anthology of essays and poems, featuring contributions from forty poets in which they discuss their feelings about family and poetry, share personal photographs, and provide one or more poems about the transitions that come with being part of a family.

Presents an overview of a degenerative brain disease which alters personality, memory, thinking and behavior and, at present, has no cure.

Presents an overview of anthrax, explaining what it does to the body and discussing such topics as diagnosis and treatment, the anthrax-laced letters sent in 2001, and an anthrax vaccine.

Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.

Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.

Discusses the age of knighthood, covering such aspects as arms, armor, training, ceremonies, tournaments, the code of chivalry, and the Crusades.

A collection of essays, poems, short fiction, and drawings created in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by authors and illustrators of books for young adults.

Drawn from a survey of more than one thousand teenagers, first-person stories help to address the problems inherent in labeling people.

A description of the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands and the threats to it.