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Twenty Women Who Made a Difference

by Harness, Cheryl

Just in time for Women's History Month, here are short, spirited profiles of twenty women who impacted life in America by speaking out against injustice and fi...

September 11, 2001

by Santella, Andrew

Recounts events of September 11, 2001, when terrorists flew into the World Trade Cent er and the Pentagon, discusses what is known of the terrorists, and relat...

A Stone in My Hand

by Clinton, Cathryn

Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her older bro...

New Year Be Coming!

A Gullah Year

by Boling, Katharine

Verses written in the Gullah dialect of the southeastern seacoast describe the months of the year and activities that characterize each.

Animal actors

by Presnall, Judith Janda

Discusses the use of animals in films and television, their training and care both on and off the set, and the American Humane Association's monitoring of thei...

Horse therapists

by Presnall, Judith Janda

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Stopping to Home

by Wait, Lea

In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her d...

Grover G. Graham and Me

by Quattlebaum, Mary

In his eighth foster home since the death of his great-grandmother, eleven-year-old Ben becomes very attached to a baby living with the same family and worries...

Anthropologist

Scientist of the People

by Batten, Mary

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Celebrating Ramadan

by Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane

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