Synopsis: Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.

Synopsis: A wordless tale in which a bird flying around the dinosaur exhibit in a museum has an unsettling experience when it finds itself back in the time of living dinosaurs.

Synopsis: Warned never to stay in his animal shape for more than two hours, Tobias forgets when he becomes involved in a rescue campaign and faces being trapped in a hawk's body forever

Synopsis: "An extremely well-written and informative book that tells about Braille's life and the development of his alphabet system for the blind. Freedman's gift for making his subjects both accessible and intriguing comes through wonderfully in this book. Readers learn not only about Braille and his struggle to communicate thorough the written word once he lost his sight, but also how long it took for his revolutionary innovation to become universally…

Synopsis: Kristy's newest baby-sitting charge is Susan Felder, who goes away to a special school. Susan isn't like most kids. While she can play the piano and sing beautifully... she can't talk to anyone. Susan is autistic. She lives locked inside her own secret world.Kristy thinks it's unfair that Susan has to be sent off to school and is treated differently from everyone else. But Kristy's going to try to change that--by showing everyone that Susan's a…

Synopsis: The first humorous addition to the historical fiction series is narrated by Teresa, a first generation American of Italian descent, who travels by train and then by wagon with her family from New York to a utopian community in Idaho.

Synopsis: When the Mystery Machine gets a flat tire, the only place to stop is a creepy old castle. The man who owns the castle is having a dinner party and invites the whole gang. But an unexpected visitor shows up-a ghost! Zoinks! It is up to Scooby-Doo and his friends to get to the bottom of this haunted mystery!

Synopsis: The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.

Synopsis: In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present -- and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent's divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair -- it will take all his…

Synopsis: "Elizabeth Stanton's father wished that Lizzie had been a boy. That way people would have recognized her extraordinary talents and accomplishments. But Lizzie didn't want to be a boy. She just wanted girls to count as much as boys did. When she got older, Lizzie believed that women should have the same rights as men -- and that included voting! Lizzie wasn't about to stay home and do what was expected while men made all the decisions. She wasn't…

Synopsis: Little Bear and Sal both go berrying with their mothers, but after sitting down to rest, they each end up following the other one's mother

Synopsis: For use in schools and libraries only. A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Jake is thrown into an uneasy alliance with proud, one-man dog, Jim Ugly, when the dog's owner, Jake's father, suddenly disappears. Confident that Jim Ugly can pick up Jake's father's trail, boy and dog set out on the adventure of their lives. Illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.