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A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Everyday signs serve as captions for this pictorial tale of what happens after a man tosses a banana peel into the garbage can and misses.
Recounts the experiences of Irene Gut Opdyke who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
When the Broadway Fire House acquires a motorized fire engine, Magnus the fire horse is not ready to retire.
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long a...
Absent-minded poet Wan Hu is so curious about the stars that finally, after several unsuccessful attempts, he finds a way to travel among them.
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Jailed by an evil foe, a king receives invaluable help from a crow that regularly brings him the latest news.
A stranger arrives at a remote village and becomes the tailor, sewing magical embroidered scenes into the pockets of their plain clothes, which transforms their humdrum lives forever.
Illustrations and rhyming text follow the sun and moon as they shine on a young boy's day.
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls....
Hugh, a poor but clever orphan, sets out to seek his fortune in the city but first he must find a way to pay the toll-taker at the bridge.
A collection of short stories by various authors, including Andrea Davis Pinkney, M.E. Kerr, and Anne Mazer, about adolescent girls coming of age.
Mom blames Eleanor and Mark for making a mess of the house until she finally sees that the real culprit is the baby.
Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.
Examines the historical background in the Civil War of the famous speech made during the dedication of the new national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the impact it had on the United States throughout the year...