Presents a brief biography, in simple text with illustrations, of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
A collection of poems about math, featuring selections such as "Math Makes Me Feel Safe, " "Fractions, " "Pythagoras, " and "Time Passes, " by a variety of authors including Janet S. Wong, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Ilo Orleans, and others.
A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
Kip the Cave Boy and Paleowolf each face hunger and danger on a journey in Paleolithic times; when they decide to join forces and help one another, Paleowolf becomes the first dog.
A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.
Slow Snail hits the ball so hard during a baseball game that it flies to the moon and back, but that still may not be enough time for Snail to slide in for a home run.
A bilingual folk tale from Nicaragua about a well-meaning man who can't figure out how to make changes in his life until his niece, Ambrosia, shows him how.
