A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.The story
of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish ...
Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes.
We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for
justice and equality.Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He ...
A seventeen-year-old from Jerusalem, Tal Levine comes from a family that always believed peace would
come to the Middle East. She cried tears of joy when President Clinton and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with Yasser Arafat in 1993-a moment of ...
It was a very nice Sunday in the middle of spring, in the middle of
breakfast, when Rudie Dinkins heard his mama say that Rudie's sitter, Mrs. Gittel, had the flu.With his mother's help Rudie cooks a batch of chicken ...
At last a great American Hanukkah story! This very funny, very touching novel of growing
up Jewish has the makings of a holiday classic.One lousy miracle. Is that too much to ask?Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive ...
A moving biography of the late Leonard Nimoy, the iconic Spock from Star Trek, whose
story exemplifies the American experience and the power of pursuing your dreams.“A wonderful new biography of Nimoy for children, and […] one of the most ...
*Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the
Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story a page-turner. School Library Connection, starred review*A must for all library collections. Booklist, starred reviewWinner of ...