fiction

After a very heavy snowfall in Florence, Italy, Sandro, the youngest page in the palazzo of Piero De' Medici, tries to find out why the ruler has summoned the sculptor, Michelangelo.

Three little kittens create a sensation when they join dancers onstage of a Parisian theater known for its ballet and for the artist who paints there.

A farm boy meets his hero, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, when he lands his bi-plane in a field near Canton, Mississippi, in 1929. Based on a true story.

Razia, a girl in Afghanistan, wants to attend Razia Jan's girls' school the Zabuli Education Center for Girls, but first she must get her father and brother's permission.

Bindi, Robert, and Terri Irwin travel to Sumatra to collect three tiger cubs for the Australia Zoo, and while she is there, Bindi and her new friend track down a dangerous group of tiger poachers.

A rabbi visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid in charge who misuses the clay man he created.

In 1715 Italy, eight-year-old Anna Maria Lombardini arrives at a Venice orphanage with little but the special violin her father made for her, but when her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi, favors her over a fellow student, the beloved instrument winds up in a canal. Includes glossary and historical note.

KC and Marshall run across a forgotten cubbyhole while painting a closet at the White House and find a box of toy horses that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson; when they go to Monticello to return the horses, the box disappears, and they explore the building and grounds to find the thief.

Mr. Edwards helps Laura and her family celebrate a happy Christmas on the prairie.

An illustrated story of how Bo, who was born in Texas, got to be selected as the pet of President Obama's family.