Author : Jeron Ashford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781939547101
When each family at the diverse Juniper Court apartment complex needs something to light up the dark of winter, the stumpy, lumpy candle provides a glow brighter than the fanciest taper, revealing the true spirit of each holiday it illuminates.
Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Creston Books
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2017
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 1939547342
For 20 years, Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit and determination to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. This inspirational story shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough. Full color.
Author : Richa Jha
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1939547431
Parents panic when the Internet goes down but their child reminds them that there other, very pleasant, ways to spend their time.
Author : Jess Hong
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1939547377
"This Olovely' book promotes the simple message that we are all different and that is lovely. A beautiful celebration of diversity!"--Julie Downing, award-winning author-illustrator ("Mozart Tonight"). Full color.or.
Author : Laurie Wallmark
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547637
"This picture book traces the impressive career of Sophie Kowalevski, the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics requiring original research. As a girl, Sophie is fascinated by the equations her father uses to wallpaper her room. She proves herself a prodigy, and tutors are impressed enough to give her private lessons. Despite universities that refuse to allow women on campus or to pay them to teach, Sophie is able to distinguish herself with her research into partial differential equations. Sophie receives a doctorate and becomes the first female professional mathematician in Northern Europe. The book mentions several of Kowalevski's mathematical contributions and closes with an encouraging message about women in mathematics"--
Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 193954744X
Describes the life of the famous composer, who immigrated to the United States at age five and became inspired by the rhythms of jazz and blues in his new home.
Author : Muon Van
Publisher : Creston Books
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1939547156
"Moving from the wide world to the snugness of home and back out again, Village by the Sea tells the story of longing for the comforts of home"--
Author : Robin Newman
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1939547172
Includes a recipe for carrot cake by Mollie Katzen.
Author : Dianne R. Osmun
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439625638
Creston sprang to life on the summit of the high prairie, where railroad officials pitched their camp one night in 1868. Creston was chosen as the division point between the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. The railroad brought its machine shops; roundhouse, and a rip-roaring, brawling construction camp to the new town. By 1869, the area was platted and construction began. Creston became an overnight industrial and transportation center, earning the nickname of Little Chicago. In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson implied that the Wild West began in Creston. He reported his first encounter with the open display of handguns in Creston when a passenger, without a ticket, was thrown from a moving train. He later wrote, They were speaking English all around me, but I knew I was in a foreign land. It was the first indication that I had come among revolvers, and I observed it with some emotion.
Author : Jeff Gottesfeld
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547552
"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned to post-war Japan as an interpreter, found her parents, and wrote the fateful words that make her a storied feminist hero in that nation even today. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor said about Beate Sirota Gordon, 'It is a rare life treat for a Supreme Court Justice to get to meet a framer of a Constitution. It is rarer indeed for that framer to have been a woman'"--
