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Stand as Tall as the Trees

How an Amazonian Community Protected the Rain Forest

by Patricia Gualinga, Laura Resau ...

Illustrated by Vanessa Jaramillo ...

An inspiring true story about how an activist in the Amazon worked with other Indigenous communities to protect and preserve their sacred lands and forests.Patricia (Paty) Gualinga grew up in her Kichwa village in the Amazon of Ecuador where mystical beings called Amazanga help protect the forest. Paty traveled away from home for school until she was called back—companies that said the government ... Read more

$9.99 USD

An inspiring true story about how an activist in the Amazon worked with other Indigenous communities to protect and preserve their sacred lands and forests.Patricia (Paty) Gualinga grew up in her Kichwa village in the Amazon of Ecuador where mystical beings called Amazanga help protect the forest. Paty traveled away from home for school until she was called back—companies that said the government
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Scholastic Book of World Records 2027

by Scholastic ...

It’s another incredible year for world records, social media sensations, and pop culture phenomena! This must-have guide to 2027 covers everything from science, tech, sports, music, movies, animals, and more.Another year of amazing world records, plus all the latest and greatest pop-culture moments! Read all about the biggest, best, and most buzzworthy world records in music, movies, sports, ... Read more

$9.99 USD

It’s another incredible year for world records, social media sensations, and pop culture phenomena! This must-have guide to 2027 covers everything from science, tech, sports, music, movies, animals, and more.Another year of amazing world records, plus all the latest and greatest pop-culture moments! Read all about the biggest, best, and most buzzworthy world records in music, movies, sports,
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

by Frederick Joseph ...

Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs—creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.“We don’t see color.” “I didn’t know Black people liked Star Wars!” “What hood are ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs—creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.“We don’t see color.” “I didn’t know Black people liked Star Wars!” “What hood are
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The Magic School Bus Presents: Volcanoes & Earthquakes: A Nonfiction Companion to the Original Magic School Bus Series

by Tom Jackson ...

Illustrated by Carolyn Bracken ...

Series series The Magic School Bus Presents
THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS VOLCANOES & EARTHQUAKES is a photographic nonfiction companion book to the original bestselling title, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS INSIDE THE EARTH.INSIDE THE EARTH from the bestselling Magic School Bus series taught thousands of kids about rocks, volcanoes, and the earth's core. MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS VOLCANOES & EARTHQUAKES will expand upon the original title with fresh ... Read more

$5.99 USD

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS VOLCANOES & EARTHQUAKES is a photographic nonfiction companion book to the original bestselling title, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS INSIDE THE EARTH.INSIDE THE EARTH from the bestselling Magic School Bus series taught thousands of kids about rocks, volcanoes, and the earth's core. MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS VOLCANOES & EARTHQUAKES will expand upon the original title with fresh
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Spanish ( Easy Spanish ) Frequent Words (4 Books in 1 Super Pack)

400 Frequent Words Explained in Spanish with Bilingual Tex

by Mobile Library ...

Series series Foreign Language Learning Guides
Above | Below = Arriba | AbajoDo you understand this first words in Spanish?Yes, you do - this is Easy Spanish!How?Because you read it using a new technique: bilingual reading (parallel text).How it works?It's simple: bilingual reading works by reading two versions of the same book or text at the same time.One version is in the language you want to learn (in this case, we'll help you learn... ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Above | Below = Arriba | AbajoDo you understand this first words in Spanish?Yes, you do - this is Easy Spanish!How?Because you read it using a new technique: bilingual reading (parallel text).How it works?It's simple: bilingual reading works by reading two versions of the same book or text at the same time.One version is in the language you want to learn (in this case, we'll help you learn...
... Read more
All the Colors We Are/Todos los colores de nuestra piel

The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color/La historia de por qué tenemos diferentes colores de piel

by Katie Kissinger ...

The essential resource for 20 years!Celebrate the essence of one way we are all special and different from one another-our skin color! This bilingual (English/Spanish) book offers children a simple, scientifically accurate explanation about how our skin color is determined by our ancestors, the sun, and melanin. It’s also filled with colorful photographs that capture the beautiful variety of skin ... Read more

$13.59 USD

The essential resource for 20 years!Celebrate the essence of one way we are all special and different from one another-our skin color! This bilingual (English/Spanish) book offers children a simple, scientifically accurate explanation about how our skin color is determined by our ancestors, the sun, and melanin. It’s also filled with colorful photographs that capture the beautiful variety of skin
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A Tale of Two Cities SparkNotes Literature Guide

by SparkNotes, Charles Dickens ...

Series series SparkNotes Literature Guide Series
A Tale of Two Cities SparkNotes Literature Guide by Charles DickensMaking the reading experience fun!When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively ... Read more

$4.99 USD

A Tale of Two Cities SparkNotes Literature Guide by Charles DickensMaking the reading experience fun!When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively
... Read more
Arabic Folktales for Children

Timeless Stories to Share in English and Arabic (Free Online Audio Recordings and Bilingual Text)

by Hadil Ghoneim ...

Illustrated by Ayah Khamis ...

Timeless stories to share in English and Arabic, engagingly retold for young readers.This exciting collection of eight folktales presented in parallel English and Arabic text brings together favorites from a storytelling tradition rich in humor, warmth, and gentle life lessons. Drawing on oral and written sources from across the Arabic-speaking world, award-winning author Hadil Ghoneim has crafted ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Timeless stories to share in English and Arabic, engagingly retold for young readers.This exciting collection of eight folktales presented in parallel English and Arabic text brings together favorites from a storytelling tradition rich in humor, warmth, and gentle life lessons. Drawing on oral and written sources from across the Arabic-speaking world, award-winning author Hadil Ghoneim has crafted
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Roberto Clemente

Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates

by Jonah Winter ...

Illustrated by Raúl Colón ...

A moving, exquisitely illustrated picture book biography of Roberto Clemente, legendary Latino baseball player, pioneer, and humanitarian.On an island called Puerto Rico, there lived a little boy who wanted only to play baseball. Although he had no money, Roberto Clemente practiced and practiced until—eventually—he made it to the Major Leagues. As a right-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A moving, exquisitely illustrated picture book biography of Roberto Clemente, legendary Latino baseball player, pioneer, and humanitarian.On an island called Puerto Rico, there lived a little boy who wanted only to play baseball. Although he had no money, Roberto Clemente practiced and practiced until—eventually—he made it to the Major Leagues. As a right-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he
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Queer, There, and Everywhere

23 People Who Changed the World

by Sarah Prager ...

Illustrated by Zoe More O'Ferrall ...

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017 * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens 2017This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG**. Three starred reviews!**World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgend... ... Read more

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A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017 * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens 2017This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG**. Three starred reviews!**World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgend...
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Spies

The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia

by Marc Favreau ...

A thrilling, critically-acclaimed account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for young readers of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.The Cold War spanned five decades as America and the USSR engaged in a battle of ideologies with global ramifications. Over the course of the war, with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction looming, ... Read more

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A thrilling, critically-acclaimed account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for young readers of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.The Cold War spanned five decades as America and the USSR engaged in a battle of ideologies with global ramifications. Over the course of the war, with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction looming,
... Read more
Candide - Voltaire

by Voltaire ...

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent
... Read more
Who Was Paul Revere?

Illustrated by John O'Brien ...

by Roberta Edwards, Who HQ ...

Series series Who Was?
In 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely unnoticed in history until Longfellow celebrated it in a poem in 1861. So who was Paul Revere? In addition to being an American patriot, he was a skilled silversmith and made false teeth from hippo tusks! This biography, with black-and-white ... Read more

Was $6.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

In 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely unnoticed in history until Longfellow celebrated it in a poem in 1861. So who was Paul Revere? In addition to being an American patriot, he was a skilled silversmith and made false teeth from hippo tusks! This biography, with black-and-white
... Read more
Good Behavior

by Nathan L. Henry ...

Jailed at age sixteen for armed robbery, Nathan Henry was the kind of teenager most parents and teachers have nightmares about. His crime was the culmination of a life lived on the edge: guns and drugs, sex and violence, all set against the ordinary backdrop of a one-stop light town in rural Indiana. Nate's personal history is both disturbing and fascinating. A rough childhood becomes an ... Read more

$11.09 USD

Jailed at age sixteen for armed robbery, Nathan Henry was the kind of teenager most parents and teachers have nightmares about. His crime was the culmination of a life lived on the edge: guns and drugs, sex and violence, all set against the ordinary backdrop of a one-stop light town in rural Indiana. Nate's personal history is both disturbing and fascinating. A rough childhood becomes an
... Read more
How Dare the Sun Rise

Memoirs of a War Child

by Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta ...

Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best Books of the Year“This gut-wrenching, poetic memoir reminds us that no life story can be reduced to the word ... Read more

$6.49 USD

Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best Books of the Year“This gut-wrenching, poetic memoir reminds us that no life story can be reduced to the word
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Who Is George Lucas?

by Meg Belviso, Pam Pollack, Who HQ ...

Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...

Series series Who Was?
As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He is a producer, screenwriter, director and entrepreneur whose company Lucasfilms pioneered the movie effects that changed the world of animation. He founded Industrial Light and Magic, which transformed special sound and visual effects throughout the Hollywood film ... Read more

$4.99 USD

As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He is a producer, screenwriter, director and entrepreneur whose company Lucasfilms pioneered the movie effects that changed the world of animation. He founded Industrial Light and Magic, which transformed special sound and visual effects throughout the Hollywood film
... Read more
Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

Series series Aladdin Classics
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a sensation upon its publication in 1852. In its first year it sold 300,000 copies, and has since been translated into more than twenty languages. This powerful story of one slave's unbreakable spirit holds an important place in American history, as it helped solidify the anti-slavery sentiments of the North, and moved a nation to civil war. ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a sensation upon its publication in 1852. In its first year it sold 300,000 copies, and has since been translated into more than twenty languages. This powerful story of one slave's unbreakable spirit holds an important place in American history, as it helped solidify the anti-slavery sentiments of the North, and moved a nation to civil war.
... Read more
American Indians in Texas: Conflict and Survival

by Sandy Phan ...

Series series Primary Source Readers
Groups of American Indians had been living in the Texas region for thousands of years when American settlers decided to expand westward. This captivating book explores the Texas history and the history of American Indians and how each group found different ways to live on the region they inhabited. Readers will learn about a variety of tribes, including Karankawa tribe, Jumano, Caddo, Lipan Apache ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Groups of American Indians had been living in the Texas region for thousands of years when American settlers decided to expand westward. This captivating book explores the Texas history and the history of American Indians and how each group found different ways to live on the region they inhabited. Readers will learn about a variety of tribes, including Karankawa tribe, Jumano, Caddo, Lipan Apache
... Read more
A Dangerous Idea

The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools

by Debbie Levy ...

ASJA Book Award Honoree | A Booklist's Editors' Choice title | A School Library Journal Best Kids' Book of the Year | An ALA Notable Children's Book | A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionOne hundred years ago, a small-town science teacher ignited a nationwide debate over what students should learn in school--and who should decide.* “Compelling.” -School Libra... ... Read more

$12.49 USD

ASJA Book Award Honoree | A Booklist's Editors' Choice title | A School Library Journal Best Kids' Book of the Year | An ALA Notable Children's Book | A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionOne hundred years ago, a small-town science teacher ignited a nationwide debate over what students should learn in school--and who should decide.* “Compelling.” -School Libra...
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Coding for Kids in Scratch 3.0

A Step-by-Step Beginners Guide to Master Your Coding Skills and Programming Your Own Animations and Games

by Ethan Caldwell ...

This step-by-step guide introduces children and beginners to the fundamentals of coding through Scratch 3.0, a visual programming language designed to make learning interactive and accessible. The book explains core programming principles such as algorithms, sequences, conditionals, loops, variables, events, and functions, translating abstract concepts into practical, hands-on activities. It also ... Read more

$9.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This step-by-step guide introduces children and beginners to the fundamentals of coding through Scratch 3.0, a visual programming language designed to make learning interactive and accessible. The book explains core programming principles such as algorithms, sequences, conditionals, loops, variables, events, and functions, translating abstract concepts into practical, hands-on activities. It also
... Read more
The Mine Wars

The Bloody Fight for Workers' Rights in the West Virginia Coalfields

by Steve Watkins ...

For fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deb Heiligman, a riveting true story of the West Virginia coal miners who ignited the largest labor uprising in American history.* “An essential historical account of the U.S. labor movement.” -School Library Journal, starred reviewA School Library Journal Best Book of 2024A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award BookA 2025 NCSS-CBC Notable ... Read more

$11.89 USD

For fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deb Heiligman, a riveting true story of the West Virginia coal miners who ignited the largest labor uprising in American history.* “An essential historical account of the U.S. labor movement.” -School Library Journal, starred reviewA School Library Journal Best Book of 2024A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award BookA 2025 NCSS-CBC Notable
... Read more
Thrice Told Tales

Three Mice Full of Writing Advice

by Catherine Lewis ...

Illustrated by Joost Swarte ...

Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice. See how they run? No. See how they can make all sorts of useful literary elements colorful and easy to understand!Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly—but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary.From the absurd to the wish-I’d-thought-of-that clever, writing professor ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice. See how they run? No. See how they can make all sorts of useful literary elements colorful and easy to understand!Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly—but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary.From the absurd to the wish-I’d-thought-of-that clever, writing professor
... Read more
How to Study for a Mathematics Degree

by Lara Alcock ...

Every year, thousands of students go to university to study mathematics (single honours or combined with another subject). Many of these students are extremely intelligent and hardworking, but even the best will, at some point, struggle with the demands of making the transition to advanced mathematics. Some have difficulty adjusting to independent study and to learning from lectures. Other ... Read more

$23.79 USD

Every year, thousands of students go to university to study mathematics (single honours or combined with another subject). Many of these students are extremely intelligent and hardworking, but even the best will, at some point, struggle with the demands of making the transition to advanced mathematics. Some have difficulty adjusting to independent study and to learning from lectures. Other
... Read more
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

by Ariel Aberg-Riger ...

Illustrated by Ariel Aberg-Riger ...

A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Redux is a necessary and galvanizing read.What are the stories we tell ourselves about America?How do they shape our sense of history,cloud our perceptions,inspire us?America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we’ve been telling ... Read more

$7.49 USD

A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Redux is a necessary and galvanizing read.What are the stories we tell ourselves about America?How do they shape our sense of history,cloud our perceptions,inspire us?America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we’ve been telling
... Read more

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