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Explore the World
Explore the World
 | How did pioneers catch "Oregon Fever"?Were buffalo chips a tasty after-school snack?What famous western outlaw was really just a kid?Westward ho! Pack up your wagon and come along on this thrilling... [More information about Don't Know Much About the Pioneers...] |
 | One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and... [More information about Chu Ju's House...] |
 | Alexander Cold, un joven de quince años, tiene la oportunidad de hacer el viaje de su vida. Dejando atrás a su familia y a su madre enferma, Alexander Cold se embarca con su temeraria abuela,... [More information about La Ciudad de las Bestias...] |
 | Welcome to the Big Apple! From A to Z, the city that never sleeps has something to offer everyone! Come visit the American Museum of Natural History and see prehistoric Animals, get a Bird's-eye... [More information about New York, New York!: The Big Apple from A to Z...] |
 | Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed author, artist, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. He also studied at the Royal... [More information about The Train of States...] |
 | Unas meses despu#233;s que el joven Alexander Cold se internara con suabuela en el coraz#243;n del Amazonas en busca de una legendaria Bestia, vivir#225; otra aventura. En esta ocasi#243;n, la... [More information about El Reino del Dragon de Oro (Spanish Edition)...] |
 | Peoples are strange! The things they are doing and saying—sometimes they make no sense. Did their brains fall out of their heads? And why so much saying, so much talking all the time day and... [More information about The Unfinished Angel...] |
 | Peoples are strange! The things they are doing and saying–sometimes they make no sense. Did their brains fall out of their heads? And why so much talking, all those words spilling out of those... [More information about The Unfinished Angel CD...] |
 | When Alexander Cold's mother falls ill, the fifteen-year-old is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother in New York. A tough and prickly magazine reporter, Kate Cold takes Alex along with her on... [More information about City of the Beasts (P.S.)...] |
 | If only Mma was here, Naledi wished over and over. . . Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby... [More information about Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story...] |
 | Was Columbus the first European in the Americas? What sport became more popular after the Civil War? Were the Little Rock Nine a rock-and-roll band? As best-selling author Kenneth C. Davis... [More information about Don't Know Much About American History...] |
 | Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that... [More information about The Boy Who Held Back the Sea (Picture Puffins)...] |
 | The story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. "Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That Jack Built . . . Illustrations are stylized,... [More information about Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Reading Rainbow Book)...] |
 | A Masai tale, presented in the form of a play, in which the frog gets the job of getting a monster out of the rabbit's house after the leopard, elephant, and rhino bungle the job.
Manufacturer:... [More information about Who's in Rabbit's House? (Picture Puffins)...] |
 | In a tale illustrated by paintings in the style of eighteenth-century Japanese woodcuts, servants of a greedy lord are sentenced to death after they release a mandarin duck that the lord had ... [More information about The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins)...] |
 | Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapes™ audio program and convert the cassette tapes to compact discs. This season, we’re adding two more titles to our list of Puffin Storytime™... [More information about The Story of Ferdinand (Puffin Storytime)...] |
 | Two-time Printz Medalist John GreenÂ’s New York Times bestseller, now in paperback! Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So... [More information about Paper Towns...] |
 | Retells the story of Moses, from his birth and trip in a boat of bulrushes to his bringing of the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai.
Manufacturer: Harcourt Children's Books
Author: Margaret... [More information about Moses...] |
 | Shocked that her parents are cooking Chinese food to sell in the family store on an all-American holiday, a feisty Chinese American girl tries to tell her mother and father how things really are. But... [More information about Apple Pie Fourth of July...] |
 | Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same or speak the same language. Their lives may be quite different.... [More information about Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book)...] |
 | Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. But inside, they are alike. Available for the first time... [More information about Whoever You Are...] |
 | Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. They may not speak the same language. Their lives may be quite... [More information about Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book)...] |
 | Paperback MAPQUEST Atlas book published by HARCOUT. Contents include full color maps of the World, United States, Canada&Alaska, Mexico&Cental America, The Caribbean, North Ameerica, South America,... [More information about Horizons Desk Atlas...] |
 | Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the... [More information about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian...] |
 | Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major... [More information about Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle...] |
 | Lance Armstrong is a world champion cyclist. He won the Tour de France, the world's most challenging race, three consecutive times. He's been the World Road Cycling Champion three times and claimed a... [More information about On the Bike With ... Lance Armstrong...] |
 | In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man... [More information about Where the Mountain Meets the Moon...] |
 | When he was a little boy, Derek Jeter dreamed only one dream -- he wanted to play shortstop for the New York Yankees. Today, Derek Jeter lives that dream, and more. He has been the team's star... [More information about On the Field with...Derek Jeter (Athlete Biographies)...] |
 | "Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to... [More information about The Most Beautiful Place in the World...] |
 | "'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter... [More information about The Circuit...] |
 | The Three Little Pigs with a twist! In the tradition of her bestseller The Three Snow Bears, Jan Brett finds inspiration for her version of a familiar story in Namibia, where red rock mountains and... [More information about The 3 Little Dassies...] |
 | "A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow,... [More information about The Arrival...] |
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