Children's & Teenage Reference Material

The best-selling, award-winning master of cross sections presents a selection of well-loved trains in this brilliant lift-the-flap book. Look insid...

Born the only son in a family of six daughters, Oscar de la Renta was pressured early on by his father to take over the family''s insurance busines...

Antonio de Padua Maria Severino Lopez de Santa Anna was a man of many titles general in the Mexican army, president, dictator, landowner and admini...

This series inspires students to write compelling essays on great authors and their works by encouraging their academic inquisitiveness and sharpen...

His very name once struck terror in the ranchers, farmers, and other settlers of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. When Geronimo ...

William Buffalo Bill Cody was a boy extra, a bullwhacker, cattle driver, hunter, and an American Indian fighter on the Great Plains of the 1850...

Theodore Roosevelt did more to conserve America's natural resources than any other U.S. president before him. As one of the most accomplished and m...

Even as a young boy, Eddie Murphy knew how to make people laugh. He first took the stage at the age of 15, emceeing an amateur talent show. At 19, ...

Paul Robeson rose from humble circumstances to become a Phi Beta Kappa honoree and college football star. Discouraged by the limited opportunities ...

Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Argume...

Based partially on a Celtic legend, King Lear occupies a special place in the Shakespearean canon. Lear's descent into madness, the central event o...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a richly complicated and, to some, a deeply disturbing work. Several themes are presented within th...

Rachel Carson was a nature lover since childhood. As an adult, she became a marine biologist and wrote award-winning books about the ocean, capturi...

All about dinosaurs: a card deck of fun facts that fit in your hand! Enter the world of dinosaurs and meet some of the most amazing creatures that ...

'Too often science and faith are pitted against each other. This book breaks down that split in a creative and engaging way. It shows the scope of ...

Explore Ireland with i-SPY facts, photos and fantastic spots! Beat the boredom and take time out from screens with this pocket-sized boo...