By Donald Weinstein

By Dennis Abrams

"A Wrinkle in Time"; "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"; and, "Where the Wild issues Are". you recognize the tales, you like the characters, yet are you aware 'who wrote that'? know about the folks in the back of your favourite stories and why they felt pressured to jot down for kids. This sequence deals nice insights with 'Did You Know?' bins that spotlight attention-grabbing evidence concerning the authors. additionally, the 'Popular Books' and 'Popular Characters' sections let scholars to find new works through their favourite authors.

By Rachel A Koestler-Grack

A Portuguese navigator whose preliminary voyage to India spread out the ocean direction from Western Europe to the East when it comes to the Cape of excellent desire.

By Hal Marcovitz

O?Dell loved reasonable good fortune until eventually 1960, whilst he released, Island of the Blue Dolphins, which fast turned a vintage of children?s literature, and remains to be a best-seller virtually 50 years later. integrated full-color images, chronology, notes, works through writer, bibliography, extra examining, and index. eight chapters, 128 pages.

By Grant Segall

Oxford pics are informative and insightful biographies of individuals whose lives formed their occasions and proceed to steer ours. in keeping with the newest scholarship, they draw seriously on basic assets, together with writings by means of and approximately their matters. every one booklet is illustrated with a wealth of images, records, memorabilia, framing the character and achievements of its topic opposed to the backdrop of history.

By Kathleen Krull

Sesame Street and The Muppet Show brought Jim Henson's Muppets to the area, making Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, and large fowl loved ones names. yet while a baby in rural Mississippi, hearing the radio and placing on comedy indicates for his kin, Jim famous the ability of laughter to convey humans jointly. On Sesame Street, Jim's Muppets remodeled kid's tv via making studying enjoyable for children all over the place. A visionary, Jim regularly believed that puppets may succeed in a much wider viewers. In 1976, he proved it, drawing hundreds of thousands of kinfolk audience to The Muppet Show. along with his characteristic movie The darkish Crystal and his megastar Wars characters—including Yoda—Jim endured to push the limits of what used to be attainable in puppetry till his loss of life in 1990 on the age of 53.

Kathleen Krull, recipient of the kid's e-book Guild 2011 Non-fiction Award and lots of different accolades, once more does what she does so well—illuminating the lifetime of an immense determine in heritage, paintings, and tradition along with her informative yet approachable writing style.

By Louise Chipley Slavicek

Mom Teresa dedicated herself to society's forgotten and undesirable, not just in India yet in international locations all around the globe. it is a biography of mom Teresa, a girl who gave voice to these normally missed and ignored by means of society at huge, and whose identify has endlessly turn into synonymous with tireless charity.

Uncover the “sunshine” of a Mohawk-Algonquin woman who reports loss, ostracism, and spiritual persecution, but courageously holds directly to her religion. ideal for a while 9–12, this thirty first quantity within the stumble upon the Saints sequence familiarizes childrens with the 1st local American lady to be declared a saint. Her lifestyles tale is determined inside colonialism that introduced bad outcomes and tribal tensions that intensified with the coming of Christian missionaries

By Dennis Abrams

Biography of Gail Carson Levine, whose books for teenagers are usually takes on conventional fairy stories and whose first released paintings was once the preferred Ella enchanted.

In June of 1939, the USA performed host to 2 very precise visitors. British monarchs King George VI and Queen Elizabeth have been coming to the US. because it used to be the 1st stopover at ever by means of reigning British royalty, it was once an opportunity for the US to construct an improved dating with the British, specifically in these not easy occasions. at the household facet, many folks did not have jobs, housing, or foodstuff. the world over, Adolf Hitler, Germany's chief, was once threatening the international locations round him and struggle loomed at the horizon. yet First woman Eleanor Roosevelt observed the stopover at as a chance for the USA to put aside its cares for your time and expand a hot welcome and hand of friendship to the royal site visitors. As a part of the festivities, Eleanor hosts an all-American picnic that comes with scorching canine, a menu merchandise that shocks a few humans.