Ryan, Pam Munoz

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LICE OF MARIAN ANDERSON, EXTRAORDINARY SINGER AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO PERFORM AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, WHOSE LIFE AND CAREER ENCOURAGED SOCIAL CHANGE.

Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphange for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stables.

A little girl struggling to cope with her move to a new home finds help from her grandmother who shows her how to make a memory box.

After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.

In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

A Brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything.