PreK-8

This bilingual volume contains autobiographical poems written by Martí during his years of exile and revolutionary struggle. Each poem captures an experience, a feeling or an important moment in the life of this extraordinary man.

Behind the work of the great seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez was a Spanish-born black slave, Juan de Pareja. Juan carefully mixed Velázquez's colors and prepared his canvases. Against the backdrop of a Spain rich with art and power,...

Leon Leyson was not more than ten when the Nazis invaded Poland. He shares the horrors suffered by him and his family during the German occupation. They surely would have perished in the concentration camps had it not been for Oskar Schindler. His...

Three years after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, nine-year-old Misha was deported with his family to Terezin. His mother used all her ingenuity to avoid them being sent to Auschwitz. In this autobiography, the author shares what life was like in the...

An unforgettable reading experience, this extraordinary diary was kept by a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Anne Frank's diary is a valuable historical document and a highly personal account of the problems...

Sonia Sotomayor's bestselling autobiography has been adapted for younger readers. She shares her inspiration success story from life in the Bronx to the Supreme Court.

The life of Marie Curie is presented in novelized form. This book comes with a separate booklet of activities based on the reading.

This lively novel by acclaimed author Pam Muñoz Ryan combines biography and magical realism. It is about the early life of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda.

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, appeared the words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind-the German word for orphan. In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko Ishioka, the center's...