Tunnell, Michael O

"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens who were loyal but distrusted"--Provided by publisher.

Describes the efforts of US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to aid the children in Russian-blockaded West Berlin by dropping packages filled with candy from the air. Features personal photographs, along with letters and drawings from the children of Berlin.

After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by the genie inside it allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance.

Aminah and Jinni must face thieves, pirates, and a vengeful princess in their quest to retrieve Aladdin's lamp which has been stolen by the storyteller Idris, stranding Jinni out in the world without his magical powers.

When Patrick moves to a new town, he is confronted by a ghostly boy who seeks his help.

Discusses the use of children's literature in history and social studies programs at the elementary school level.

Describes the efforts of US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to aid the children in Russian-blockaded West Berlin by dropping packages filled with candy from the air. Features personal photographs, along with letters and drawings from the children of Berlin.

Three German teenagers who are members of the Mormon Church join forces to create a youth resistance movement during World War II, putting their lives at risk.

Describes a reportedly true incident in which George Washington, visiting the natural history museum of his friend, early American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase.

After the love of Beauty turns him from a Beast into a handsome prince, Auguste fails to reform the bad habits of his past and sees the spell passed on to his three sons.