150 pages
Blue Jenkins made positive changes in his community and workplace, from his involvement in unions to protesting "anti-Negro" hiring policies in the 1960s.
193 pages
In this sequel to The Circuit, Francisco Jiménez and his family are forced to leave California for Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s.
88 pages
Cindy Bentley had intellectual disabilities, and despite challenges, becomes a Special Olympics athlete and advocate for people with disabilities.
56 pages
Based on a true story, Joseph Merrick suffers a condition that causes people to laugh at him. At 27, he finds a friend for the first time in his life.
243 pages
Ester and her family live in exile in the endless steppe of Siberia. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future.
117 pages
Generation Us explains the phenomenon of global warming, outlines the threat it presents to future generations and offers a path toward solutions to the problem.
80 pages
Follow Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, on her journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to life as an adult in Wisconsin.
50 pages
Captain Bligh's angry sailors take control of his ship. Based on a true story that happened in 1789.
60 pages
Ned Kelly learns how to fend for himself -- outside the law. Follow his story as Australia's most famous outlaw.
122 pages
A true story of Africa's great statesman from childhood to his presidency of South Africa, and his status as a world statesman.
109 pages
Malala Yousafzai spoke out against extremist groups wanting to stop girls from going to school, even after being attacked, Learn about Malala's incredible recovery and her journey to becoming a world-famous advocate of girls' rights and education -- and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner.
37 pages
What happened to the Titanic? This book describes what happened to the Titanic the night it sank in 1912.
145 pages
See how Orville and Wilbur Wright grow up and eventually take off on the world's first flying machine.