This wordless graphic novel powerfully captures the immigrant experience.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Refugees

The true story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 told by four survivors.
48 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes

Cassie and her brothers do not understand the racism and discrimination they face as a black family living in Mississippi in the 1930s.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Great Depression, Poverty, Racism

In 1299 in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain.
310 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  9th-13th Century

15-year-old J.J. disappears into the fairy world to plug a time leak caused 150 years ago when his great-grandfather disappeared.
448 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ireland, Fairies, Parallel Universe

Based on the true story of the Danish Resistance. When the Germans occupy Denmark in 1940, Bamse and his brother join the Resistance and help rescue Jews from being taken to concentration camps.
192 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, World War II

The third book in The Kid from Tomkinsville series.
Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

Roy Tucker, the Kid from Tomkinsville, joins the rest of his Dodger teammates in a come-from-behind battle for the series title.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

As the newest addition to the Brooklyn Dodgers, young Roy Tucker's pitching helps pull the team out of a slump; but, when a freak accident ends his career as a pitcher, he must try to find another place for himself on the team.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

When beggar girl, Animah appeals to the princess for help, the black-hearted wife of Aladdin throws an old lamp at her head. The lamp holds a jinni who informs Aminah that she can make three wishes after each full moon. With the jinni's magic, Aminah regains security and comfort. But the power-hungry princess hunts down Aminah and the lamp.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Genies (or Djinn), Middle East, Poverty

In 17th century England, Susanna, a young Quaker servant girl, falls in love with seventeen-year-old Will, an apprentice from a wealthy family. With Quakers being persecuted and imprisoned, can their bond survive, no matter what?
304 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Love

Book 2 of the Solomon Snow series.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus star, and several Orphans.
289 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Book 2 of the Chronus Chronicles. Sequel to The Shadow Thieves.
448 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 1 of the Chronus Chronicles. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her cousin Zee must set out to save humankind from denizens of the Underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
424 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology, Zombies, Evil Scientists

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Twins, Funny, Popularity

In Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian war tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Civil Rights Movement, Racism, Hurricanes

When Isabel's fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: dozens of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel discovers she has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again, and she has a destiny to fulfill among the whales.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Whales, Sea Adventures

After being hit by a car, Sam finds himself in Aurobon, a land of giant insects where some of the inhabitants are working to keep Earth's ecology in balance while others are trying to wipe out humankind with a virus spread by mosquitoes.
300 pages Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Insects, Parallel Universe, Survival

After moving to New Jersey following his parents divorce, Jimmy tries out for the 7th grade baseball team, and has to prove himself as a pitcher in a new town.
105 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Baseball

This book documents the true story of Long, a Vietnam War orphan, his struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family.
128 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Vietnam, Refugees

Oggie Cooder has an unusual talent: charving. (Charving is carving a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) When he is chosen to be in a nationally televised talent contest, suddenly he's the star of the school, but he's not sure that he wants to shine that way.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Popularity

The wars between Iraq and the US are explained through a history of the region along with descriptions of the conflict, weapons, soldiers, key leaders, major events,a nd challenges in establishing peace.
96 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

Book 1 of the Seems series. 12-year-old Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems, a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running and sticks to The Plan that's been made for it. But a Glitch in the Sleep Department could ruin everything if Becker can't Fix it.
288 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Funny

In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Russia, Poverty, Dancing

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thriteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into returning to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
208 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  East Africa, Orphans

In a society where boys are more valuable than girls, and parents are only allowed to have two children, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju decides to run away from home in order to prevent her parents from selling her baby sister. Now she has to find a way to support herself alone.
240 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China

In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Russia, World War II

In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father were exiled for opposing Stalin.
256 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Russia

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
304 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Russia, World War I

When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
192 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Sewing, India

Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
144 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Vietnam, Refugees

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
192 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

Book 1 of the Little House series. A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
224 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Survival, Sisters, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

Smart, practical, and fun things you can do to make your home, school, neighborhood, and planet more environmentally friendly.
112 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Pollution

Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper, a clock that controls time, and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use it for their own evil ends.
415 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Evil Scientists, Parallel Universe, Time Travel

A young Pompeiian boy becomes apprenticed to a physician as the volcano Vesuvius smolders in the background.
Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both experience real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
128 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes

Part of the Girls of Many Lands series. Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old orphaned Spring Pearl's odd ways help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in China.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  China, 19th Century

Part of the Royal Diaries series. In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
300 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  China, Princesses

Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
64 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons, World War II

Sequel to Mountain Light. When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.
352 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers, Racism

Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. With Moon Shadow's help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and his own country in order to make his dream come true.
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  China, Racism

Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.
272 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Dystopia

Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but soon discover that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Loch Ness Monster, Monsters

Home from boarding school for the summer, Katy finds a wild horse, Flicka. But when her father forbids her to visit the dangerous mustang, Katy must choose between following her own instincts and keeping her father's trust.
144 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Horses

Liesel is a foster girl living outside of Munich during World War II. With the help of her foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
560 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, World War II

The wars between Iraq and the US are explained through a history of the region along with descriptions of the conflict, weapons, soldiers, key leaders, major events,a nd challenges in establishing peace.
96 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East