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A school project propels Brady Abbot and her grandfather on a search for her father who left them six years earlier.

Describes the home, customs, work, school, and amusements of a Peruvian girl and her family living in a small town high in the Andean mountains.

Describes the busy life of eleven-year-old Chun Yung Mee who lives with her family in a village in the Republic of Korea.

Describes the life of ten-year-old Tse Yik Ming who lives in an apartment building in Hong Kong.

In this witty entertaining story, students will discover that the life of a spider isn't very much different from their own. The spider goes to school, says the Pledge of Allegiance, and plays with his friends, Fly and Worm (of Diary of a Worm). He also spins sticky webs, molts, and takes Vacuum Safety Classes. This hilarious movie will appeal to both children and adults as they gain insight into Spider's humorous escapades. As students begin to imagine a spider's life, they may even find some empathy for a creature of which most people are scared.

This is the true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it: by successfully building her own business, raising a family in the Wild West, working with local politicians to help women get the right to vote in this country for the first time, AND becoming the first female judge and the first woman to hold a political office!.

When Sarah visits Carol Sue, she discovers that they have a special relationship because they are cousins.

Depicts children in different kinds of families, including one with a pregnant mother, one with grandparents who live with the family, and one with a father who works at home.

Eleven-year-old Jenna Bloom is aggravated having her twin brother and older sister at the same camp with her over the summer and decides to exercise her own independence through a series of practical jokes that grow less and less funny to her friends.

Dan Winslow has always dreamed of going West and becoming a cowboy, but when he finally stakes his claim in the vast Wyoming prairie, he, and other small ranchers like young widow Hope Rogers, are forced to fight powerful cattle baron Silas Head, who wants to keep all the land for himself.