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Red Cross

by Parry, Ann

Explores the history and foundation of the Red Cross organization, and discusses their early work and core values, their work to provide basic needs in times o...

The Game of Silence

by Erdrich, Louise

Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.

Cecilia's Year

by Abraham, Susan & Abraham, Denise Gonzales

Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's pl...

Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind

by Stewart, Jennifer J.

Twelve-year-old Annie is reluctant to travel to a village in Nepal for her father's two-month medical mission, but once there she assists at the clinic, makes ...

Empire State Building

by Mann, Elizabeth B. & Witschonke, Alan

Discusses the history, design, and construction of New York City's Empire State Building.

Olive's Ocean

by Henkes, Kevin

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her...

Mind Games

by Grunwell, Jeanne Marie

Each of the six members of Mr. Ennis's Mad Science Club presents a report of his or her experiences working on a science fair project to investigate ESP, which...

Rabble Rousers

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...