Synopsis: Learn ways to be a good citizen, including working together, speaking up, caring for the environment, and listening to others.Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers: We the Kids series gives the youngest reader (Ages 6-7) an introduction to being good citizens. Each book includes chapters that help readers identify key details while the photographs, and other text features encourage students to make connections on their own.

Synopsis: Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in the White House. How he led the country through tremendously difficult problems, much like the ones facing America today, makes for a timely and engrossing biography.

Synopsis: When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

Synopsis: Many interesting and colorful things happen each day in the neighborhood.

Synopsis: In this funny Caldecott Honor-winning fairy-tale retelling by Janet Stevens, wily Hare solves his family's problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear into giving up half his crops. Once a upon a time, there was a lazy Bear and a clever Hare. Bear had lots of money and lots of land but all he wanted to do was sleep. Hare had nothing but hungry children, so he came up with a plan to convince Bear to split his land down the middle--tops and bottoms.…