Rachel's Roses

Rachel's RosesBy: Ferida Wolff Illustrator: Margeaux Lucas Rachel Berger needs twenty five cents to make her dream come true. But for Rachel, twenty five cents is a fortune and she's running out of time. A Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable Title Third grader Rachel Berger longs to be different. At the very least, she'd like to be set apart from her copycat little sister, Hannah. The second Rachel spots the glass rose buttons at Mr. Solomon's button shop, her heart

address a sense of place and persons rather than any particular period or style

the battle of Jutland

moral standard bearers

That's what Jack and Annie learn when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to Elizabethan England

kernel machines

By: Various Authors | Illustrator:  William Grill   The UK's top Young Adult authors join together in this collection of new stories and poems on the theme of home

as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower

Ancient Rome

how his daughter proved to be the key in understanding his own father

before a runaway circus elephant named Pickles stampeded into his life

are rendered helpless by this impervious foe—and their solidarity has begun to unravel

and an inspiring foreword from Harrison Ford