Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

Sara picks many berries.

Adjectives help tell us more,/Like narrow street or favorite store.

At ninja competitions, athletes jump, climb, and flip their way through a twisted obstacle course.

Ten-year-old Siri and her little sister Miki live with their elderly father in an Arctic archipelago.

Bullets whizzed overhead, narrowly missing twelve-year-old Johnny Clem.

Do you know: Which team won the first NBA championship?

Where do stories about unicorns come from?

Nadia is getting ready for bed, and when her parents ask her if she has completed tasks in her evening routine, she tells them the truth.

Show young readers where and when to ask for help: when something is too heavy or sharp, while in a pool, or while crossing a street.

Follow four centuries of discovery and change, from the moment people set out to explore the world to turbulent times when it turned upside down-even for the people who stayed home!

What are checks and balances?

Are you a good teammate?

The Boston Red Sox are one of the most popular teams in Major League Baseball.

Help Emily find the perfect pumpkin in this charming illustrated story.

On a rainy spring night in 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington and her horse raced through the woods.

The windswept prairie was once a dramatic landscape where dinosaurs roamed.

Chelsea's family is celebrating Chinese New Year!

Young readers will learn how we send and receive messages using light and sound in this accessible, photo-filled book.

Just what does an author do?

Pack your bags!

Would you like to go to Mexico?

See how homes in the United States have changed over the years.

In 1911 an American explorer came across an ancient city hidden high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.

At the Olympics, the best athletes in the world compete for the gold medal.

Explore some of history's biggest failures in medicine-from bloodletting to early remedies-and how some of those failures eventually led to success.

Triceratops had three horns on its head and hundreds of teeth in its mouth-but in spite of its fierce appearance, it ate plants!

Electricity powers lights, computers, and television sets.

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From lakes, to clouds, to rain that falls back to Earth-discover how water changes through various processes to form the water cycle.

A dinosaur sticks its tiny head between the trees.

Ships, bridges, and tall buildings are marvels of engineering.

This carefully leveled text compares and contrasts what schools were like in the past to schools of the present!

Join Panda and Squirrel in nine funny, wise and thoughtful stories about the meaning of friendship by two world greats of children's literature.

Learn about different states of matter by examining water as liquid, solid, and gas.

From horse-drawn buggies to cars, this carefully leveled text compares and contrasts transportation of the past to transportation of the present!

The Manhattan Project produced the world's first nuclear weapons.

Emergent readers will delight in learning the different stories people have told about fairies throughout history!

How do small, flat pumpkin seeds become large, round pumpkins?

To root, to toot, to parachute,/ To play the flutophone or flute,/ To dare, defend, descend, disturb-/If it's an action, it's a verb!

There's so much to discover in Kenya!

What can you do in the winter?

How can you find out things you don't know?

A founder of the United States turned cultural phenomenon thanks to the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton helped create American democracy.

Are you a good teammate?

What is the executive branch?

Discover a habitat filled with steaming swamps and crawling with dinosaurs fighting to survive.

Beginning readers explore the water cycle, following water as it goes from vapor to clouds, falls to Earth as rain, joins oceans and rivers, and evaporates to complete the cycle.

How does water from a river turn into a raindrop?

In the United States, Black men are almost six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men.

Racism and profit were driving forces in the growth of slavery.