Hopkinson, Deborah

"As World War II drew to a close, unlikely allies, including the director for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and a group of daring American soldiers, banded together in order to save Austria's beloved Lipizzaner stallions"--.

"This picture book showcases the unique beauty of our one-and-only universe--its galaxies, stars, and planets--as well as our one-and-only Earth, and the precious life it contains"--.

In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their Manhattan home.

Introduces the life and career of country star Dolly Parton, from her girlhood in Tennessee and her first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry at the age of thirteen to her marriage, her success as a singer and actress, and her theme park in the Smoky Mountains.

"The story of Dr. John Snow, who traced London's cholera outbreak to a single water pump"--.

On a hot summer night a little girl wakes up, and wonders what has woken her, and the rest of the nighttime world.

As Trim's first storm starts to rage, his fellow shipmates teach him how to prepare the ship.

When Trim gets off to a bumpy start as ship's cat, new friends, human and animal, help him settle in.

"In the wake of two devastating world wars, Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady and U.S. delegate to the newly formed United Nations, drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed on December 10, 1948, the declaration marked the first time that countries agreed on a comprehensive statement of inalienable human rights. Created in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of that historic agreement, this . . . adaptation for children, reminds us that universal rights begin in small places, close to home"--OCLC.

Trim looks for a way to help his crewmates without much success, but when he discovers a big problem on the ship, it is all hands on deck.