A collection of short stories, poems, biographical accounts, and essays about the struggle for civil rights that address the question, "How do we achieve the ideal of equal rights for all?"
Provides a history of kites and kitemaking and offers step-by-step instructions for making a wind sock and different types of two- and three-stick kites.
Describes the events that led Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discusses the meaning of the song and its importance as the national anthem of the United States.
Offers young readers a look at nine traditional stories from Africa, including Ananse tales from Sierra Leone and elsewhere in West Africa and Zulu and Swahili tales.
A collection of high interest fiction features short stories with an adjustment theme, including "A Problem with Mother," "A Baby Again," and "The Other Woman."
A look at endangered species and what is being done to protect rare animals is accompanied by a fictional story about Julie, an orangutan who was saved from poachers, raised in captivity, and reintrod
Briefly describes life in United States at the end of the 1920s, the stock market crash of 1929 and the difficult years of the Depression, and FDR's New Deal programs to provide jobs and revive the ec
Describes the journey to and the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the point of view of a ten year old boy.
