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...
In an utopian world, fourteen-year-old Linus, who is approaching the test that will determine which Realm he will be living in, rejects the accepted way of life and ventures to change his destiny.
A biography of the black playwright who received great recognition for her work at an early age.
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.
A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901.
Little Trailblazers (Little Trailblazers by Little Rebels)
by Marjorie Spitalnik
Anything is possible when you believe in yourself! Once upon a time there was a little girl named Mary who loved science and was very good at math. Her biggest dream was to work with astronauts. Mary lived during a time when Black people were segregated. Because of that, she wasn’t able to attend the same school as white people. But in order to become an engineer, she needed to. Mary didn’t give up. She went before a judge and demanded her right to study. The judge allowed her to go to s...
Nine Novels by Younger Americans
by Sara Bradshaw, Rachel Barber, Daniel Cowen, Sara Meira Rosenberg, Dylan Suher, Lucas Gonzalez, Julia Mayer, Carolyn Maughan, and Samantha Lipman
Jeff Gordon (Race Car Legends) (Race Car Legends: Collector's Edition)
by Dick Brinster
A look at this bring young star in the NASCAR circuit.
Helen Keller (Discovery books) (Young Yearling Book)
by Stewart Graff and Polly Anne Graff
From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could "talk" to people. Eager to make up for lost time, Helen threw herself into her studies. She decided to teach others about the special training deaf and blind children need. Helen traveled all over the globe and raised money to start up...
How I Found the Strong
by University Associate Professor Margaret McMullan
In 1861 Frank “Shanks” Russell wishes he was old enough to fight for the South alongside his pa and big brother. But Frank is too young, skinny, and weak, and is left behind with his mother and grandparents. Life in Mississippi was simple before the war between North and South. Now Frank’s boyhood is gone forever, along with his dreams of heroic battles. The shortages and horrors of war reach his home as he scrounges for food and water, and sees both Confederate and enemy soldiers at their worst...
Missouri Bound (Little House Chapter Books) (Little House Chapter Books: The Rose Years, #1)
by Roger Lea MacBride
Even though she is sad to leave her home in South Dakota, Rose has many new experiences as she and her parents and the Cooley family make their journey to Missouri.
"A fascinating story." -LeVar BurtonThe thrilling adventures of a slave who became known worldwide for his explorations of Mammoth Cave. If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you would have been led by candlelight through dark, winding tunnels to the edge of a terrifying bottomless pit. Your guide would have been seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop, an African American slave who became known around the world for his knowledge of Mammoth Cave. Bishop needed bravery, intelligence,...
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator
"Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream " (History's All-Stars)
by Dharathula H. Millender
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.
ASHA and Baz Meet Mary Sherman Morgan (ASHA and Baz, #1)
by Caroline Fernandez
It's the day before the big parade. Alta can only think about one thing: Wilma Rudolph, three-time Olympic gold medalist. She'll be riding on a float tomorrow. See, Alta is the quickest kid in Clarksville, Tennessee, just like Wilma once was. It doesn't matter that Alta's shoes have holes because Wilma came from hard times, too. But what happens when a new girl with shiny new shoes comes along and challenges Alta to a race? Will she still be the quickest kid? The Quickest Kid in Clarksville is a...
From celebrated picture book creators Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky comes one possible answer to the age-old question: Who was Mother Goose?We all love to hear Mother Goose rhymes and riddles. But did you know that there was a real Mother Goose who lived in Boston three hundred years ago? In 1692, Elizabeth Foster married a widower with ten children. His name was Isaac Goose, and after they married, Elizabeth became Mother Goose. She and Isaac had six more children together, and to help he...
Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1941, They Were Strong and Good is a classic book that follows the path of one family’s journey through American history. Robert Lawson introduces us to his forefathers and with them we brave Caribbean storms, travel to the wharf markets of New York, and fight in the Civil War. Amidst these adventures Lawson’s grandparents meet, marry, and raise a family, and later his parents follow the same cycle of life. But this book is more than just the story of one family, i...
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.