PreK-8

Based on a true story and written by someone who witnessed it, this touching picture book is set in Venezuela. A man named Faoro found an orphaned, newborn caiman and brought her home. The bond they formed was unbreakable and everlasting. Information...

Everyone in Emma's class is excited to learn to ice skate, but when Emma discovers she is not good at it, she gives up. Fortunately, she receives a special gift that changes everything. Multiple choice questions and activities are provided at the end.

Akiko is bored when she has to stay with her grandmother in the Japanese country until she makes an amazing discovery that will change her life. Multiple choice questions and activities are provided at the end.

Learn about the careers of cloud hunters, dragon trainers, leaf painters, and other extraordinary people. Each fanciful book comes with a poster.

Sonia Sotomayor shares the story of her life and reveals the huge influence reading had on her while she was growing up. This personal memoir will inspire every child to pursue his or her own dreams.

A traffic light is finally installed at a busy intersection and keeps all the townsfolk safe until winter. Once it gets a cold, things go a little haywire. A little boy named Alex come up with a brilliant solution.

With an understanding of the equator comes a grasp of the rotation of the Earth, climate, weather, and many other age-appropriate science concepts. Clean, accessible art on every spread--including diagrams, maps, and full-color photographs--help readers...

In the companion book to She Persisted about 13 American women who never gave up, Chelsea Clinton presents 13 inspirational women from all over the world. They include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz from Mexico, Viola Desmond from Canada, Aisha Rateb from...

The Librarynauts decide to explore the Moon, the Sun, the planets, and the stars in a book about space. They discover many surprises along the way!

Lola's class is given the assignment to draw a picture of the place where they come from, but, since Lola left the Island when she was a baby, she has no memory of it. She turns to her neighbors and family for help and from their recollections, she...

Grandpa has a cold and the only thing to cure him is a tea made from dragon tears. Manu finds a dragon, but his sad stories only make the dragon laugh. Luckily, just when Manu has given up, the dragon laughs until he cries!

The burnt brownies will not get Fiona and Finley a blue ribbon. Winning no longer seems that important to them once they meet Benjamin Franklin and make great discoveries with the brilliant Founding Father. A brief biography on Benjamin Franklin and...

When Mia's grandmother moves in with them, she speaks very little English and Mia's Spanish is not very good. To make matters worse, the grandmother misses her homeland. The two end up teaching each other their languages with the help of a parrot named...

We all have superpowers. For some it's music, memory, adaptation, creativity, just to name a few. What's yours?

Elephant feels something on his head and he is none too pleased to discover it's a bird. Will Piggy will able to help?

Elephant has trouble waiting for a surprise that Piggy has for him.

This book shows children how animal dads help take care of their young.

Children will love seeing how a young boy named Henry finds happiness and friendship with a big dog named Mudge.

Henry and Mudge have loads of fun with the coming of spring.

Pavor is a perfect child. He always listens, never gets dirty, and steers clear of others and their germs. When he turns six, he is tormented by a strange nocturnal phenomenon that does not allow him to sleep. The doctor prescribes a radical treatment...

Culled from different sources, the riddles and tongue twisters included here will challenge children to use their knowledge and imagination. Children will enjoy learning little secrets about animals, numbers, fruit, and vegetables.

Amelia Bedelia has been gently adapted to retain all the wonderful humor and silliness of the original edition, this Spanish translation will make readers laugh out loud.

In a small town, the mice build an impressive library. Animals small and large enjoy story time and other services. One day, however, some rats come and end up damaging a number of the most valuable books. The rats come up with an ingenious plan to...

While Buzz is at school, Fly Guy goes in search of food. He eats some strange-smelling trash and becomes 50-feet tall! Buzz sets out to get his friend some help.

Told in the first person, a little girl must migrate to the United States due to violence in her homeland. This picture book presents her experience, including arduous traveling at night, time spent in a refugee camp, and her slow adaptation to life in...

This book teaches children what different farm animals eat, where they sleep, and how they live including sheep, horses, ducks, and cows.

Readers will be fascinated to learn how a boy born in Mexico City grew up to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and go on to save our planet. Meet Mario Molina and discover how his research into fluorocarbons helped avert an environmental catastrophe.

The United States has many places to live. People choose to live in small towns and big cities. Why do people live where they do? With examples from both the past and present, this book teaches beginning readers about the history of immigration to the...

The princesses from classic tales are on strike because they are tired of being portrayed as weak, cowardly characters. To help them out, the Librarynauts decide to take their places. This turns out to be harder than they thought.

Pizca believes his plant is a machine. The rest of the Librarynauts want to teach him that plants are living things. They journey inside a book to discover the immense variety of vegetation.

Wizard Van Dongen wants to move. He does some magic, brings his house to life, and asks it to find a better location. When the house finds out that it will become inanimate afterwards, it decides to take off running.

Wilma Rudolph was a sickly child--if her siblings had a cold, she had double pneumonia. When she contracted polio, everyone was sure she would never walk again. Yet Wilma was so determined that she did learn to walk, and soon ran. This moving biography...

In this magical book, Gilberto discovers that the wind can be an unpredictable playmate. Sometimes it helps him to sail his toy boat, catch apples that fall from the trees, and spin his pinwheel. At other times, it keeps him from flying his kite or...

In prehistoric times, birds faced possible extinction because predators hunted their eggs. The birds called a general assembly to address the situation, but everything they tried failed. A mated pair of birds eventually managed to come up with an...

Narwhal wants to be a superhero. He has a costume and sidekick. Now, all he needs is a super power!

Everyone believes that roosters sing when the sun comes out, but, actually, the roosters are the ones that wake up the sun. One night, however, Nino Rooster has a sore throat and he cannot utter a sound. Samuel begins to worry if the night will ever...

Young Suhaila wishes she had could have known her grandmother, but she passed away long before she was born. One night, a golden ladder appears before her window and her long lost Grandma Annie invites her on a magical journey. Written by Barack...

Jeremy wants a special pair of sneakers, but his grandmother tells him they only have money for necessities. This moving story offers a creative way to teach about needs and wants and not judging people for what they wear.

Amber wants her trip to the fair with her family and best friend Justo to be perfect. The excursion starts out just as she had hoped, but soon her perfect day begins to change.,..

In the town of Chewandswallow, food falls from the sky instead of snow and rain. Unfortunately, the weather soon takes a turn for the worse and portion sizes gets so large, the town folk begin to fear for their lives! Children will love the clever...