People & Places (Children's/Teenage)

Dress the dollies as they travel around the world, checking in at the airport, boarding an inter-city train, going on a cable car in San Francisco,...

When Jimmy Carter was a boy, he listened to his parents talk about local politics and watched them live out their Baptist faith in the community. F...

The official children’s book to the Netflix original documentary series, Our Planet, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. ...

The Mother of a Movement is a true story of parental support and unconditional love. The Mother of a Movement tells the story of Jeanne Manford, th...

Join the treacherous mission to conquer Earth’s highest peak in David Long’s enthralling retelling of the first expeditions to climb Everest. ...

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all huma...

School Library Journal Best Book of the YearNSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade BookAmerican Farm Bureau Foundation for Education Recommended Book B...

Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary African-American Union soldiers in Ci...

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award For young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet l...

Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildin...

This very strange tale began in May in a friendly forest on a sunny day.   Skipping along a path in the wood danced Sylvia Rose, and man, she was G...

The narrator is a composite of people Pu Zhelong influenced in his work. With further context from Melanie Chan’s historically precise watercolors,...

Find out about the country of Japan with this fun and engaging first information book. Topics include the country's geography, major cities, people...

Discover the scientists who changed our world in My First Heroes: Scientists! Push, pull and slide the scenes to find out about Zhang Heng, Isaac N...

Discover the artists who changed our world in My First Heroes: Artists! Push, pull and slide the scenes to find out about Artemisia Gentileschi, Vi...

Discover the inventors who changed our world in My First Heroes: Inventors! Push, pull and slide the scenes to find out about Archimedes, Patricia ...

  A lyrical picture book and a moving reflection on immigration, family and home. Wishes tells the powerful, honest story abo...

Benito Mussolini was a man of many contradictions but with one driving ambition: to rule Italy and restore it to the power and splendor of the anci...

Early in life, Joseph Stalin became convinced of the inevitability of social revolution. And in it, he was determined to play a prominent role. He ...

What happens in the oceans is critically important to life on Earth. The girl in her little blue house wants to believe that other children love th...

The Sex Book A no-nonsense guide for teenagers Can a girl get pregnant during her period? How do you know if you’re homosexual? Do guys ever fake ...