history

Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Suports early reading; leadership; history knowledge.

Analyzes the American Civil War in an attempt to define it as a defining moment in American history, and provides diary entries, essays, short stories, poems, and more to examine events from that time period.

This is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.

The author describes the experiences of growing up on an African farm during the Rhodesian Bush War, white colonialism in the 1970s, and Zimbabwean independence in the 1980s.

During the political turmoil in 1976 Jamaica, Irie and Jilly must navigate their opposing upbringings as they fall in love and choose between the futures decided for them and the futures they desire.

Willa and nonbinary android Saudade travel back to 1891 Italy to find the editbook and prevent whatever caused the cataclysm, but Faraz is hot on their heels with plans of his own.

In 1960s San Francisco, aspiring artist Blake feels like she could finally find a place to belong, but her gender and multiracial heritage makes it next to impossible to land an internship that could put her on the map. To make matters worse, her family has been plagued with bad luck for centuries, and Blake soon starts to have ominous visions. When her aunt and uncle tell her about a long-last family heirloom, a legendary mirror, that could break the curse on her family, Blake embarks on a dangerous mission to find it.

Chronicles African American slave resistance against their captors during the American Civil War, and explores how they were the driving force behind their own emancipation. Includes black-and-white photographs.

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.