This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Dan Marino.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Peyton Manning.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Seattle Seahawks highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Russell Wilson.
This high-interest history of the National Football League's Eagles highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Chicago Bears highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Walter Payton.
Looks at front-line workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, such as doctors, nurses, store workers, and delivery people who are all helping in everyday life. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research, information about the author, and an index.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s New York Giants highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Eli Manning.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s New England Patriots highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Tom Brady.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Los Angeles Rams highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Merlin Olsen.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Fred Taylor.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Houston Texans highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as J. J. Watt.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Denver Broncos highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as John Elway.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Marcus Mariota.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s New Orleans Saints highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Drew Brees.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Adrian Peterson.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Aaron Rodgers.
This high-interest history of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Emmitt Smith.
On the eve of singing at a community festival, a bout of stage fright threatens a little girl's confidence. As Indigo Blume drifts off to sleep, she isn't sure she's brave enough to take the stage. But once she falls asleep, Indigo finds herself in a dream world with the characters of her favorite book, Acoustic Rooster and his Barnyard Band. The band's members, including Miss Dairy Parton and Chickee Minaj, are rehearsing, and they invite Indigo to join the group. But when a storm destroys their barn, the animals are left with almost nothing. Can Indigo rally the band to work together and save their home? And will she find her voice in time for the festival?
Gives readers a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look into how World War II spies gathered information for the Allied and Axis powers. Learn about the tools that daring spies used during this conflict, and how spies such as Josephine Baker and Juan Pujol risked their lives to defeat Nazi Germany. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, critical thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, resources for further study, and an index.
Strap on your helmet and hit the trails! Young bikers will love learning about the history of their favorite sport, as well as some of the basics for enjoying a safe and fun mountain biking adventure!
One little girl knows that our world is whole because the connections between us all makes it so--from the family cat to the chatty neighbor to Mom and Dad and cousin Jerry. Our World is Whole is a lyrical meditation on mindfulness that celebrates interconnectedness and the ways we support one another and keep our world whole and spinning.
The story of Anne Frank and her diary is one of the world's most important and well-known, but less is known about the woman who sheltered Anne and her family for years and, ultimately, rescued Anne's diary from Nazi clutches. Miep Gies was a woman who rose to bravery when humanity needed it and risked everything for her neighbors. It is because of Miep we know Anne Frank--and now, this is Miep's story.
Recipient of the 2019 Eureka! Honors Award Winner -Best of 2019 Kids Books - Most Inspiring Category As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng--and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.
Gordy and his family live in Detroit, Michigan, the heart of the United States automobile industry. Every night after coming home from work at one of the plants, Gordy's father teaches him how to box. Their hero is the famous American boxer Joe Louis, who grew up in Detroit. But the Great Depression has come down hard on the economy. Detroit's auto industry is affected and thousands of people lose their jobs, including Gordy's father. When his mother takes on work with a Jewish tailor, Gordy becomes friends with Ira, the tailor's son, bonding over their shared interest in boxing and Joe Louis. As the boys' friendship grows, Gordy feels protective of Ira, wanting to help the new boy fit in. At the same time, America is gearing up for the rematch between Joe Louis and the German boxer, Max Schmeling. For many Americans this fight is about good versus evil (US against Nazi Germany). Against the backdrop of the 1938 Fight of the Century, a young boy learns what it means to make a stand for a friend.
When she was seven years old, Geraldine (Jerrie) Mock took her first airplane ride. She decided then and there to be a pilot. Growing up, she was inspired by radio broadcasts detailing the travels of aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Joan Merriam was 15 when she took her first plane ride in 1952. She got her pilot's license before she could even drive a car. And like Jerrie, Joan too was inspired by Earhart and wanted to circle the globe, following Earhart's exact route. Years later, when both women begin to plan their dream flights, they are completely unaware of each other, and coincidentally pick the same time to depart. But when the media gets word of their plans, the stage is set for the race of a lifetime. This picture book retells the extraordinary story of the 1964 air race between Americans Geraldine Mock and Joan Merriam Smith, the first two women to fly around the world.
