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What makes a bird a bird? All birds have feathers, wings, and beaks. But, birds come in many varieties of colors, shapes, and sizes, with different habits and homes. Journey with an adorable kiwi bird as your guide through the vast and colorful world of birds as you read All the Birds in the World! Then, learn about different birds from around the world using PebbleGo!
What makes a bird a bird? All birds have feathers, wings, and beaks. But, birds come in many varieties of colors, shapes, and sizes, with different habits and homes. Journey with an adorable kiwi bird as your guide through the vast and colorful world of birds as you read All the Birds in the World! Then, learn about different birds from around the world using PebbleGo!
Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister. Jabari quickly realizes that inventing can often be more than a little frustrating! Read Jabari Tries, and then research a famous inventor and share what you learn.
Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister. Jabari quickly realizes that inventing can often be more than a little frustrating! Read Jabari Tries, and then research a famous inventor and share what you learn.
Ronnie Lott has always been tough. As a kid, when he fell down, he felt something inside him start to rumble. That something was a voice called Grit. On the court or off the field, no matter where he went or what he played, Grit was there. When he tumbled, Grit said, “Get back up!” When he fumbled, Grit said, “Let’s try again!” When Grit helps Ronnie become a professional football player, he’ll have a shot at achieving his dreams. But just how far can Grit take him? Join Ronnie as he pushes his limits and answers the question: Is Grit living in all of us? If so, how can we learn to hear its voice?
One day at the basketball court, two kids, a familiar challenge—H.O.R.S.E.? But this isn't your grandmother's game of hoops. Not when a layup from the other side of the court, standing on one foot, with your eyes closed is just the warm-up. Around the neighborhood, around the world, off Saturn's rings . . . the pair goes back and forth. The game is as much about skill as it is about imagination.
A slam dunk from award-winning author and illustrator Christopher Myers, H.O.R.S.E. is a celebration of the sport of basketball and the idea that what's possible is bounded only by what you can dream.
Laura Wheeler Waring grew up in a time when she didn’t see any artists or paintings of people who looked like her. She dreamed of painting portraits of people who did look like her, so when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she accepted. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her and she painted their portraits which now hang in Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery, where children of all races can admire the beautiful shades of brown she captured.
Sweet Dreams, Sarah captures the essence of what makes a dream a reality in the moving story of Sarah Goode, incorporating both history and heart. Sarah was a forward-thinking woman whose name ought to be widely known, but isn’t. Enslaved from the time she was born, she was the daughter of a skilled carpenter who could build anything. Sarah acquired her father’s skills and a desire to help people. Sarah designed and built a cabinet bed. A desk by day, Sarah’s cabinet bed unfolded into a bed at night. After overcoming obstacles, Sarah received the patent for her cabinet bed in 1885, becoming the first African-American woman to be granted a patent. Sarah Goode’s determination and persistence provides an inspiration for all readers.
Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! In the early 1950s, few African Americans could afford to buy cars, so this would be an adventure. But she soon found out that black travelers weren't treated very well in some towns. Many hotels and gas stations refused service to black people. Daddy was upset about something called Jim Crow laws...
Finally, a friendly attendant at a gas station showed Ruth's family The Green Book. It listed all of the places that would welcome black travelers. With this guidebook—and the kindness of strangers—Ruth could finally make a safe journey from Chicago to her grandma's house in Alabama.
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