PreK-8

Less than three weeks Salvador Gómez-Colón after turned 15, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Incapable of ignoring the suffering of so many people, he started a non-profit organization to distribute solar lamps and manual washing machines to...

This illustrated book presents 40 remarkable Latinas from different time periods and disciplines. They include musician Teresa Carreño, politician Gumercinda Páez, author Isabel Allende, engineer Serena Auñón, and gymnast Lauren Zoe Hernandez. ...

This illustrated biography teaches children how Selena rose to become a superstar of Tejano music.

Frida Kahlo is one of the most respected and popular artists of the 20th century. This teaches children about her life and work.

Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent for baseball. His incredible skill soon got him drafted into the big leagues where he spent 18 seasons playing right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Through explanatory texts, biographies, and maps, this illustrated atlas allows readers to follow in the footsteps of history's most daring adventurers, including Marco Polo, David Livingstone, Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt, Magellan, Francis...

Julia tells, in verse, the story of a girl born into a humble Puerto Rican family at the beginning of last century. With beautiful illustrations, it re-creates the time in which she grew up, and narrates how she became one of Puerto Rico's and Latin...

The iconic figures of the past that we love and admire have something in common with each and every one of us: they, too, were once young boys and girls. The collection Cuando los grandes eran pequeños tells in gentle verse the stories of children from...

In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. This book looks closely at Anne's life before the secret annex, what life...

This illustrated biography introduces readers to the life of John F. Kennedy.

When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him...

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? The shy Virginia statesman refused at first, but then went on to author one of our nation's most important and inspiring documents. The third U.S...

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein, but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about him besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a child? Finally, here's the story of Albert...

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad, which she traveled by herself north to Philadelphia. Throughout her long...

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many 'firsts.' In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while...

Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author--a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers!...

This book explains the life and times of King Tut, covering the story of his tomb's discovery, as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.

As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. ...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.'

As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent 27 years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon...

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs' Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New...

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine...

In 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely unnoticed in history until Longfellow celebrated it in a poem in 1861. So who was Paul Revere? In addition...

Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about...

Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent 13 years in the White House. How he led the country through tremendously...

This biography serves as a wonderful introduction to modern art.

Children will be fascinated to learn about the amazing voyages of Marco Polo in this illustrated biography about his life.

Readers will be delighted to discover how a class clown grew up to create Mickey Mouse and other unforgettable Disney characters.

Discover the man behind the genius. This biography traces Steve Jobs's remarkable life from childhood to CEO of Apple.

This book traces the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. from a child in the segregated South to Civil Rights leader.

This wonderfully written biography teaches children what Abraham Lincoln was really like, from boyhood through his presidency.