47
In this part fictional slave narrative and part science fiction story, 47, ...
| Author: Mosley, Walter |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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9-11 Artists Respond: Volume One
Over 100 graphic artists draw their reactions to the 9-ll attack on the Wor...
| Author: No author cited |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Abe Lincoln Remembers
Written as if Lincoln were telling his life story, the book briefly traces ...
| Author: Turner, Ann |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
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Abraham's Battle
An ex-slave named Abraham, a young Confederate soldier, and a girl from Get...
| Author: Banks, Sara Harrell |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Across America on an Emigrant Train
This nonfiction account of Robert Louis Stevenson's train trip from New Yor...
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Action Jackson
Watercolors and text invite the reader to accompany Jackson Pollock as he c...
| Author: Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, Sandra |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Actual Size
Accompanied by an easy-reading text, bright collages of insects, fish, and ...
| Author: Jenkins, Steve |
GED Descriptors:
science | math
|
African American Answer Book
This book contains 325 multiple choice questions and answers, all about Afr...
| Author: Rennert, R.S. |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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African Princess
Illustrated with paintings, photographs, and artifacts, six biographies tel...
| Author: Hansen, Joyce |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
After the War Was Over
In this charming book, Michael Foreman describes growing up in post-World W...
| Author: Foreman, Michael |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Aida
The opera diva Leontyne Price retells this classic operatic tale made famou...
| Author: Price, Leontyne |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Ajeemah and His Son
This very powerful, short chapter book (83 pages) is set first in Africa, t...
| Author: Berry, James |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Alia's Mission
This graphic storybook/graphic novel is based on the true story of the chie...
| Author: Stamaty, Mark Alan |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | literature and arts
|
Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure
Alice Ramsey and three other women face floods, mud, and travel without map...
| Author: Brown, Don |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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All Around Town
Columbia, South Carolina of the 1920's and 1930's is chronicled by photogra...
| Author: Johnson, Dinah |
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All I See
Shy Charlie admires the painter Gregory's work from afar. The child and ad...
| Author: Rylant, Cynthia |
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All the Colors of the Race
A collection of poems celebrating the family and minority heritages. The po...
| Author: Adoff, Arnold |
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All the Places to Love
A young boy talks about all his favorite places, those of his family and hi...
| Author: MacLachlan, Patricia |
GED Descriptors:
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Alphabet City
Although we recommend alphabet books rarely and only with great cautions th...
| Author: Johnson, Steven T. |
GED Descriptors:
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Amazing Impossible Erie Canal, The
After an introduction detailing the need to transport goods back and forth ...
| Author: Harness, Cheryl |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, The
This Franklin biography also includes details about important historical ev...
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Amazing Potato, The
A wonderful example of thematic writing, this book about the potato include...
| Author: Meltzer, Milton |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride
Story of an evening when two famous and courageous women take to the air, a...
| Author: Ryan, Pan Munoz |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
|
America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories
This is a collection of 14 short stories about people with many different c...
| Author: Mazer, Anne (ed.) |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain
This biography of Sam Clemens focuses primarily on his childhood. Readers w...
| Author: Brown, Don |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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American Plague, An
Subtitled "The True and Terifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 179...
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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American Safari, An
Award-winning wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg shows and tells the sto...
| Author: Brandenburg, Jim |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
America's White Table
A simple story about a family's Veterans' Day dinner preparation is used to...
| Author: Raven, Margot |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
When slaves on the ship Amistad rebelled and tried to return home to Africa...
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Anastasia's Album
This biography of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of R...
| Author: Brewster, Hugh |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde, The
The Anasazi, "the ancient ones" in Navajo, had a unique and well developed ...
| Author: Arnold, Caroline |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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And Not Afraid To Dare
This is a collection of short (15-20 page) biographies of 10 African Americ...
| Author: Bolden, Tonya |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
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And So They Build
Each page depicts an unusual animal, insect, or bird and how it builds a ho...
| Author: Kitchen, Bert |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Angel for Solomon Singer, An
In this urban story, a transplanted Hoosier lives a lonely life in New York...
| Author: Rylant, Cynthia |
GED Descriptors:
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Angel to Angel
The author-poet celebrates mothers in this collection of poems illustrated ...
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Angels of Mercy
This book is about the army nurses of WW II. Chapters about WW II in genera...
| Author: Kuhn, Betsy |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Animal Architecture
The author describes the shelters created by a wide variety of creatures fr...
| Author: Dewey, Jennifer Owings |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Animals in Flight
This is an excellent science picture book on flight of winged creatures wit...
| Author: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Ann and Seamus
This story of a real event in 1828 alternates chapters in free verse of the...
| Author: Major, Kevin |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
|
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
This nonfiction reference book is filled with photographs and details about...
| Author: Verhoeven, Rian & van der Rol, Ruud |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Anno's Journey
Anno arrives by small boat, bargains for a horse, and begins a journey acro...
| Author: Anno, Mitsumasa |
GED Descriptors:
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Anno's Magic Seeds
A wizard gives Jack magic seeds, which he cultivates, and he reaps ever inc...
| Author: Anno, Mitsumasa |
GED Descriptors:
math
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Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
In the guise of a tale about a jar, the father-son authors illustrate the a...
| Author: Anno, Mitsumasa and Anno, Masaichiro |
GED Descriptors:
math
|
Antarctica: Journeys to the South Pole
This non-fiction, photographic picture book tells the history of the Antarc...
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | writing | literature and arts
|
Anthony Burns
The subtitle of this book is "The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave." ...
| Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
The author and the illustrator, both from Appalachia, lovingly remember the...
| Author: Rylant, Cynthia |
GED Descriptors:
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Appointment
This lavishly illustrated book is a distillation of the classic Somerset Ma...
| Author: Maugham, Somerset |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Armageddon Summer
Fourteen-year-old Marina and 16-year-old Jed accompany their parents' relig...
| Author: Yolen, Jane & Coville, Bruce |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Around the World in a Hundred Years
During the late 15th century, explorers sailed a relatively unknown world i...
| Author: Fritz, Jean |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Artist in Overalls
Born into a poor farming family in Iowa, Grant Wood struggled to study art ...
| Author: Duggleby, John |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Artistic Trickery
An engaging and thorough explanation of trompe l'oeil art and how it works....
| Author: Capek, Michael |
GED Descriptors:
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Ashanti to Zulu
Each letter of this alphabet book describes a different African culture. I...
| Author: Musgrove, Margaret |
GED Descriptors:
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At Her Majesty's Request
Queen Victoria oversees the education and upbringing of an African princess...
| Author: Myers, Walter Den |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoir
What happens "at the end of words"? The author faced this difficult questio...
| Author: Stone, Miriam |
GED Descriptors:
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Atalanta's Race, A Greek Myth
This retelling of an ancient Greek myth describes Atalanta, abandoned by he...
| Author: Climo, Shirley |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Subtitled "The true story of the day America entered World War II," this bo...
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Auction, The
In this sad intergenerational story, a boy and his grandfather reminisce th...
| Author: Andrews, Jan |
GED Descriptors:
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Aurora Means Dawn
This picture book tells the story of the first family to settle in Aurora, ...
| Author: Sanders, Scott |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Autumn
Autumn, an alphabet book of acrostics with linoleum-cut prints, describes t...
| Author: Schnur, Steven |
GED Descriptors:
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Baboon King, The
Set in Africa, this powerful book explores the themes of the importance of ...
| Author: Quintana, Anton |
GED Descriptors:
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Baby
A family finds a baby on its doorstep with a note asking them to care for t...
| Author: MacLachlan, Patricia |
GED Descriptors:
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Back to the Wild
Endangered species are bred in captivity and taught survival skills before ...
| Author: Patent, Dorothy |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Backyard Birds
This informational book begins with four pages of data on birds in winter, ...
| Author: Lerner, Carol |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Ballpark
The book describes the work that goes on in a ballpark before and during a ...
| Author: Cooper, Elisha |
GED Descriptors:
|
Barrio
Photographs present the life of Jose and his family who live in a barrio or...
| Author: Ancona, George |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Baseball Saved Us
A young boy in an internment camp finds baseball to be his saving grace, al...
| Author: Mochizuki, Ken |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bat Boy and His Violin, The
Reginald is more interested in his violin than his father's job managing th...
| Author: Curtis, Gavin |
GED Descriptors:
|
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
Activist Bayard Rustin is the focus of this biography, although the book al...
| Author: Haskins, James |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bearing Witness
This selection of powerful personal stories of the Holocaust in various lit...
| Author: Rochman, Hazel & McCampbell, Darlene (Eds.) |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bearskin
A bear with magical powers raises a foundling who grows up to marry a princ...
| Author: Pyle, Howard |
GED Descriptors:
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Because of Winn-Dixie
10-year-old Opal and her preacher father move to a small Florida town. Opal...
| Author: DiCamillo, Kate |
GED Descriptors:
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Bee & Jacky
A brother and sister suffer the effects of their father's Vietnam trauma an...
| Author: Coman, Carolyn |
GED Descriptors:
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Beekeepers
A grandfather teaches his granddaughter how to care for bees....
| Author: High, Linda Oatman |
GED Descriptors:
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Before I Was Your Mother
A mother tells her daughter stories about herself before she became a mothe...
| Author: Lasky, Kathryn |
GED Descriptors:
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Bells of Christmas, The
This long picture book may be read slowly, although it is not broken into c...
| Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Beneath Blue Waters
The authors guide readers on a tour of the mysterious creatures who live in...
| Author: Kovacs, Deborah and Madin, Kate |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Big Annie of Calumet
Big Annie is the story of Annie Clemenc who led the miners' strike of 1913 ...
| Author: Stanley, Jerry |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Big Jabe
This tall tale relates how Jabe helped slaves....
| Author: Nolen, Jerdine |
GED Descriptors:
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Big Mama Makes the World
A simple text and colorful illustrations retell the creation story with a m...
| Author: Root, Phyllis |
GED Descriptors:
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Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
In this engrossing 266-page book, Matt, age 17, is falsely accused of tryin...
| Author: Oates, Joyce Carol |
GED Descriptors:
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Big Talk
Three poems are presented graphically with four color-coded bars to represe...
| Author: Fleischman, Paul |
GED Descriptors:
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Big, Blue Whale
Everything you ever wanted to know about blue whales is presented in an eas...
| Author: Davies, Nikola |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy
This book tells about the life of a rodeo-riding African American cowboy. ...
| Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Birches
On each page Ed Young illustrates trees and forests and the countryside, in...
| Author: Frost, Robert |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Bird House, The
This is a modern-day fairy tale that features a homeless girl, an old woman...
| Author: Rylant, Cynthia |
GED Descriptors:
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Bizarre Birds
Simple chapters focus on unusual birds. Stunning illustrations and a variet...
| Author: Wechsler, Doug |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Black Cat
A black cat explores an urban neighborhood. The stunning illustrations are...
| Author: Myers, Christopher |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Black Cowboy Wild Horses
This book is based on the true story of Bob Lemmons, a former slave, whose ...
| Author: Lester, Julius |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Black Hands, White Sails
This book is mostly about the Atlantic whaling industry and the contributio...
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Black Hoops: The History of African Americans in Basketball
This book provides a history of basketball and African Americans in basketb...
| Author: McKissack, Frederick, Jr. |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Black Legacy
This history of African Americans in New York City from a Dutch colony to t...
| Author: Katz, William |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
|
Black Pioneers
This well-researched history of African American pioneers, freedom fighters...
| Author: Katz, William Loren |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Black Potatoes
The causes and consequences of the Irish potato famine are examined, using ...
| Author: Bartoletti, Susan |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Black Ships Before Troy
This beautifully illustrated book retells Homer's epic poem The Iliad
| Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Black Star, Bright Dawn
Bright Dawn, a teenaged Eskimo girl, takes her father's place in the grueli...
| Author: O'Dell, Scott |
GED Descriptors:
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Black Swan White Crow
The book introduces the reader to Haiku poetry that is accompanied by delic...
| Author: Lewis, J. Patricia |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Black Whiteness
During the several months Admiral Richard Byrd spent alone in Antarctica in...
| Author: Burleigh, Robert |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Blanche on the Lam
A spunky African-American woman, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy s...
| Author: Neely, B. |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Blizzard!
This book tells the story of an amazing blizzard that struck the Eastern U....
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Block, The
This collection of Langston Hughes poems is complemented by the illustratio...
| Author: Hughes, Langston |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Blues Journey
Father and son team up to celebrate the blues in beautiful illustrations an...
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
GED Descriptors:
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Blues Singers, The
The author tells his granddaughter about the origin of blues in America thr...
| Author: Lester, Julius |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Bluewater Journal
Inspired by journals, maps, and letters from the Mystic Seaport Museum, the...
| Author: Krupinski, Loretta |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bluish
This is a warm, easy to read story of three young girls and their developin...
| Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
GED Descriptors:
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Bobbin Girl, The
Rebecca, a 10-year-old "bobbin girl" working in the textile factories in Lo...
| Author: McCully, Emily Arnold |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bog Bodies
The discovery of the Lindow Man in a bog in England in 1984 provides the st...
| Author: Buell, Janet |
GED Descriptors:
science | social studies
|
Bone Dectives, The
These fascinating cases that establish the identities of skeletons through ...
| Author: Jackson, Donna |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Book
This very simple and stunningly illustrated poem compares a book to a house...
| Author: Lyon, George Ella |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Book of Rhythms, The
The chapters are essays by Langston Hughes on different aspects of rhythm. ...
| Author: Hughes, Langston |
GED Descriptors:
|
Borning Room, The
The narrator remembers growing up in southern Ohio in the 19th century, rem...
| Author: Fleischman, Paul |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Boss of the Plains
The illustrations and text tell how and why the cowboy hat, called the Boss...
| Author: Carlson, Laurie |
GED Descriptors:
|
Boy Named Giotto, A
This exquisitely illustrated biography portrays the early years of the Ren...
| Author: Guarnieri, Paolo |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Boy of the Deeps
On his first day in the coal mines, a boy with his father survive an accide...
| Author: Wallace, Ian |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Boys' War, The
This award-winning book uses firsthand accounts of experiences to offer a l...
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Brain, The
Utilizing computerized color photography, the author describes and illustra...
| Author: Simon, Seymour |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Brave Harriet
The story of Harriet Quimby, the first woman to earn a pilot's license and ...
| Author: Moss, Marissa |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bread, Bread, Bread
The photos and very easy text show/tell of people eating bread all over the...
| Author: Morris, Ann |
GED Descriptors:
|
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence
In 1991, New York's long-ignored African Burial Ground was rediscovered. Th...
| Author: Hansen, Joyce, & McGowan, Gary |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Breaking Into Print
The history of the production of books from quills to movable type to the p...
| Author: Krensky, Stephan |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Brooklyn Bridge, The
This award winner tells the history of an unusual American family, the his...
| Author: Mann, Elizabeth |
GED Descriptors:
science | math
|
Brothers In Hope
The author, who worked with the International Rescue Committee, tells the s...
| Author: Williams, Mary |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Brown Angels: An Album of Picture and Verse
This book is a collection of very short poems and photographs of African-Am...
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
This well illustrated book of poetry uses the metaphor of nurturing tea for...
| Author: Thomas, Joyce Carol |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Bucking the Sarge
Teenage Luther, who is exploited by his slumlord mother, keeps his equilbri...
| Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul |
GED Descriptors:
|
Bud, Not Buddy
It's 1936, Flint, Michigan, and 10-year-old Bud (not Buddy) has run away fr...
| Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
|
Buffalo Gals: Women of the Old West
Primary documents (e.g., journal entries, letters, song lyrics) are woven i...
| Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Building a New Land
Each of the short chapters in this well written picture book addresses the ...
| Author: Haskins, James & Benson, Kathleen |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bull Run
This is a fictional and personal account of the first great battle of the C...
| Author: Fleischman, Paul |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Buried Alive
This collection of linked poems explores the rich, puzzling and painful exp...
| Author: Fletcher, Ralph |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Buried in Ice
The authors explore the mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin's failed exped...
| Author: Beattie, Owen & Geiger, John |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Butterfly House
A girl and her grandfather care for a larvae through the stages of becoming...
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Butterfly Seeds, The
When Jake sails with his family for America, his grandfather gives him a gi...
| Author: Watson, Mary |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Butterfly, The
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique discovers that her mother is ...
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
By Dawn's Early Light
The book follows the activities of two children cared for by their grandmot...
| Author: Ackerman, Karen |
GED Descriptors:
|
By Dawn's Early Light
This is an historically accurate and beautifully illustrated account of how...
| Author: Kroll, Steven |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Calling the Doves
The author joyously recounts the songs, the food, and the love of his paren...
| Author: Herrera, Juan |
GED Descriptors:
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Can't Get There from Here
This fictional story of homeless teens trying to survive on NYC streets in ...
| Author: Strasser, Todd |
GED Descriptors:
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Capturing Nature: The Writings of John James Audubon
This 40-page book contains excerpts from the journals of Audubon, along wit...
| Author: Roop, Peter & Roop, Connie |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets, A
This book includes many short poems, some childish and some more complex, ...
| Author: Agard, John & Nichols, Grace |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet
An episodic biography of Carl Sandburg in which each episode is accompanied...
| Author: Niven, Penelope |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Carolina Shout
A young girl wanders the streets of Charleston from sun up to sun set captu...
| Author: Schroeder, Alan |
GED Descriptors:
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Carver
Personal and professional details of the life of George Washington Carver a...
| Author: Nelson, Marilyn |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Casey at the Bat
This is the famous baseball poem told in scrapbook form with illustrations ...
| Author: Bing, Christopher |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Casey Jones's Fireman
Sim Webb, Casey Jones's fireman, tells the story of the fateful crash of th...
| Author: Farmer, Nancy |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | literature and arts
|
Castle
This engaging informational book tells the story of the step-by-step planni...
| Author: Macaulay, David |
GED Descriptors:
science
|
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page
Tobias, an 11-year-old boy, goes to serve as a page for a year in his uncle...
| Author: Platt, Richard |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | writing
|
Catching the Fire
Philip Simmons, the great-grandson of slaves, became a revered artist and ...
| Author: Lyons, Mary |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Cathedral
This fascinating nonfiction book describes the construction of an imaginary...
| Author: Macaulay, David |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Cats in Krasinski Square, The
With a simple text and marvelous watercolors, Hesse tells a true story of ...
| Author: Hesse, Karen |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Catskill Eagle, A
The book quotes a few lines from Melville's classic, Moby Dick. T...
| Author: Melville, Herman |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Celebrate America in Poetry and Art
This is a collection of poetry (from more than 100 U.S. poets) and painting...
| Author: Panzer, Nora (Ed.) |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Century That Was, The
Each of the 11 chapters of this fascinating look back at the 20th century f...
| Author: Giblin, James Cross (Ed.) |
GED Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Chance of Sunshine, A
The pictures tell most of the story in this almost-wordless book. Two peopl...
| Author: Liao, Jimmy |
GED Descriptors:
|
Chanda's Secrets
Sixteen-year-old Chanda, who lives in a fictional sub-Saharan
country that...
| Author: Stratton, Allan |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations
This engaging biography tells the life story of 19th-century novelist, Char...
| Author: Stanley, Diane & Vennema, Peter |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Charlie Chaplin
This interesting biography of Charlie Chaplin discusses his life and work f...
| Author: Turk, Ruth |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
|
Charlotte
When 10-year-old Charlotte's father forbids her to associate with her cousi...
| Author: Lunn, Janet |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
|
Cheap Raw Material: How Our Youngest Workers Are Exploited and Abused
This book is a chronological nonfiction account of children as laborers. C...
| Author: Meltzer, Milton |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Chicken Sunday
Two African-American boys and their white friend, a girl, try to earn enoug...
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
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Children of Christmas
This collection of short stories celebrates the spirit of giving at Christm...
| Author: Rylant, Cynthia |
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literature and arts
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Children of the Dust Bowl
The book recounts the migration of the "Okies" during the Great Depression ...
| Author: Stanley, Jerry |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Children of Topaz, The
The authors provide an introduction to the history of the Japanese internme...
| Author: Tunnell, Michael & Chilcoat, George |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Children We Remember, The
Archive photographs and a simple text tell the story of the Nazis' attempt ...
| Author: Abells, Chana |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Childtimes
Three African American women, grandmother, mother, and daughter, reminisce ...
| Author: Greenfield, Eloise & Little, Lessive Jones |
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Chimney Sweeps
From the 12th century to today, here is a look at the folklore and history ...
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Choices
George Ella Lyon, an accomplished writer of children's books, wrote this co...
| Author: Lyon, George Ella |
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Christmas Gift, The
This beautifully illustrated bilingual story tells of the Christmas of a mi...
| Author: Jimenez, Francisco |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
This story describes the customs used in both the plantation house and the ...
| Author: McKissack, Patricia & McKissack, Frederick |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Christmas Menorahs, The
This picture book recreates the true story of how families and a community ...
| Author: Cohn, Janice |
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Christmas Tapestry
While seeking to renovate their church, a minister and his son help reunite...
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
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Christmas Tree Farm
Photos accompany this simple text about the activities that take place thro...
| Author: Jordan, Sandra |
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Chuck Close Up Close
This biography of the contemporary artist Chuck Close captures his inventiv...
| Author: Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, Sandra |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Circle Unbroken
A young girl learns the tradition of making sweet grass baskets....
| Author: Raven, Margot |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Circuit, The
The author tells the heartbreaking story of a young boy growing up as an un...
| Author: Jimenez, Francisco |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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City by Numbers
This is a wordless book containing photographs of numerals in the context o...
| Author: Johnson, Stephen T. |
GED Descriptors:
math
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City of Angels: In and Around Los Angeles
20 places or events in Los Angeles are briefly described. Each is accompani...
| Author: Jaskol, Julie & Lewis, Brian |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Civil War
Illustrations include photographs, posters, and paintings from the archives...
| Author: Sandler, Martin |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Clan Apis
This is a graphic novel (a.k.a.comic book) about bees. Students will learn ...
| Author: Hosler, Jay |
GED Descriptors:
science
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Clara Schumann
This biography chronicles the life of Clara Schumann, child prodigy and wif...
| Author: Reich, Susan |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Cleopatra
This lively nonfiction account tells the history and story of the powerful ...
| Author: Stanley, Diane |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Close to Shore
The author details the first shark attacks in American history along the At...
| Author: Michael Capuzzo |
GED Descriptors:
science | social studies
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Cloud Eyes
A young Indian dreamer named Cloud Eyes uses his understanding of the langu...
| Author: Lasky, Kathryn |
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Cloudmakers, The
In A.D. 751 during a time of war, a Chinese grandfather and grandson have 7...
| Author: Rumford, James |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Coast to Coast with Alice
A fictionalized account of the real 1909 journey of four women who crossed ...
| Author: Hyatt, Patricia Rusch |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Color of My Words, The
This is an easy-reading novel, part poetry and part prose, about Ana Rosa, ...
| Author: Joseph, Lynn |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Come Go With Me: Old-timer Stories from the Southern Mountains
The author recorded these oral histories of "Southern Mountain" old folks o...
| Author: Thomas, Ray Edwin (collected by) |
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Coming Home
The book tells the story of Langston Hughes' lonely childhood, demonstratin...
| Author: Cooper, Floyd |
GED Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Coming On Home Soon
A kitten comforts a young African American girl as she and her grandmother ...
| Author: Woodson, Jaqueline |
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Confucius
The author has demythologized the figure of Confucius, depicting him as a v...
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Contest, The
This adaptation of an Armenian folktale tells of two robbers who discover t...
| Author: Hogrogian, Nonny |
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Cool Drink of Water, A
Colorful photographs and simple text present people around the world obtain...
| Author: Kerley, Barbara |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Cool Moonlight, A
Lila, who has an allergy to sunlight, lives with her disability helped by h...
| Author: Johnson, Angela |
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
"Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal acc...
| Author: Colman, Penny |
GED Descriptors:
social studies
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Counting on the Woods
Using a counting book format, the author combines rhymes with lovely color ...
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