Included is an author's note explaining who Kara is and how she came to adopt Sunshine, more information about hawks, and a glossary.  Hawk Mother: The Story of a Red-Tailed Hawk Who Hatched Chickens)  shares another story of cross-species adoption, in this stunning nonfiction title ..read more

Each book would be an excellent read aloud for all ages. “twinkles of light slid across the sky. She memorized the names of constellations. Sometimes, she stayed up all night considering colossal, cosmic questions: Why did starts travel along curved paths? How did people tell time by watching stars move? Why did different stars appear in different seasons?” What if people stormed out of these concerts and said your music wasn’t music   but you still believed it was? “Then you’d be like John Cage.” The illustrations by Il Sung Na are a bit abstract and perfectly complement this inspiring a ..read more

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Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic ..read more

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This engrossing journey will whet readers appetite for more facts about how Earth began and all the creatures inhabiting it.     the first life came to be ..read more

This engrossing journey will whet readers appetite for more facts about how Earth began and all the creatures inhabiting it.     the first life came to be ..read more

The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution ..read more