Join Lola as she learns what it means to be a big sister, in the third installment in the loveable Lola series. We all know how much Lola loves books, so it is no surprise that she can’t wait to share her love of reading with her new baby brother, Leo. Lola gets ready for little Leo’s arrival by reading books about brothers and sisters and picking out the perfect stories that she just knows her little brother will love. When the baby is finally here, Lola takes on the role of big sister—she help...
The Case of the Missing Cookies (Gullah Gullah Island, #4)
by Denise Lewis Patrick
A Cool Inventor: Frederick McKinley Jones Invents Refrigeration (Readers' Theater: Exploring History Through Plays)
by Mary Morton Cowan
More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom,""Black Tom," and "The Ghost in the Back Seat."
Out of Love for You Digital Guide (Urban Underground)
by MS Anne Schraff
In 1976 Pennsylvania, middle-schooler Charmaine Upshaw contemplates a career as a model or actress while coping with boyfriend problems and the return of her uncle, a fugitive who cost her family $1,000 in bail money a year earlier.
Shadows on Society Hill (American Girl Mysteries) (American Girl: Addy Mysteries)
by Evelyn Coleman
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.
In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.
George Washington Carver (Real Readers) (Real Readers Series: Level Blue)
by Miena Benitez and Mirna Benitez
A biography of the agriculturist for beginning readers, chronicling his struggle to get an education, his work at the Tuskegee Institute, and how he helped popularize peanuts as a cash crop in the South. Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the African American scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.
