Sheryl Swoopes, member of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women's basketball team, uses her own life as an example of the importance of never giving up.
With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.
Library Book: A Weed Is a Flower
From #1 NYT bestselling author Kelly Yang comes a gorgeously illustrated picture book about Asian American changemakers doing everything they dreamed of and inspiring all of us to reach for new heights! From creating beautiful music like Yo-Yo Ma to flying to outer space like Franklin Chang-Díaz; from standing up to injustice like Fred Korematsu to becoming the first Asian American, Black and female vice president of the United States like Kamala Harris, this book illuminates the power of Asian...
Together, they won college football's highest award. This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey was suffering from leukemia. But John, now a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a very special medicine for Joey. It was called touchdowns. And John scored them in bunches because they were "Something for...
Madam C. J. Walker Funda Una Empresa
by Ninas Rebeldes Ninas Rebeldes
Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.
ASHA and Baz Meet Mary Sherman Morgan (ASHA and Baz, #1)
by Caroline Fernandez
Good Night Statue of Liberty (Good Night Our World) ()
by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper
No monument represents the United States more proudly than the Statue of Liberty. Young readers are treated to an unforgettable tour of this historic icon that includes ferryboats, Liberty Island, touring the statue and museum, magnificent views, park rangers, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the pedestal, the torch, the crown, gift shops, and so much more.
This thoughtful and beautifully illustrated picture book shares the story of a trailblazer who has inspired generations of girls to change the world. Sara Josephine Baker was a strong girl who loved adventure. Growing up in New York in the late 1800s was not easy. When she lost her brother and father to typhoid fever, she became determined to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. In Jo's day, medical schools were closed to women, but times were changing, and Jo was at the forefront. When she...
Brookfield Days (A Little house chapter book)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Presents the daily experiences and adventures of young Caroline Quiner, the girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
A boy describes growing up in the 1930s in a Brooklyn seaside community filled with colorful characters.
Animals Coloring Book For Smart Kids (Animals World, #2) (Zoo Animal Stories, #1)
by Advanced Color
Becoming Muhammad Ali (Becoming Ali)
by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a critically acclaimed biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. *"This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit." --School Library Journal (starred review) Five starred reviews! Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friend...
The Adventures of Lo on The Go ( Lo goes to Africa)
by Lolanda Bunch Copper