Live Oak reading chests

This is the true story of a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who used his powers to help Jews escape the Holocaust.

To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself from Mississippi to New York City playing blues on his guitar.

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.

Two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail.

A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

A fireboat, launched in 1931, is retired after many years of fighting fires along the Hudson River, but is saved from being scrapped and then called into service again on September 11, 2001.

This book is a brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.