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What holidays do people celebrate? What customs and traditions make a holiday special? These books for young readers explain holidays from around the world with understandable text and bright photos. A diagram of holiday symbols and a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary.
It’s time to celebrate! Learn about holidays and special days, including how they’re celebrated and their history, through the eyes of a young narrator. These nonfiction picture books feature kid-friendly text and illustrations to make learning fun!
The Holidays around the World series has been developed for children ages 5 to 7. Each title explores the history, traditions, and features of a holiday celebrated around the world.
Explore the beauty and significance of holidays and festivals around the world! Children have the opportunity to embrace multiculturalism and understand the world around them at a young age. Each book includes cultural backmatter and an activity or craft to continue the celebration in the classroom or in your own home.
An abandoned pit bull pup roams the city in search of love and belonging while facing mistreatment and misconceptions about her breed.
The holograms lied to everyone on Earth and only Alexandra Lucas knows the truth. Now she's trapped in the year 2359 without family or friends—worse, without her anxiety medication. Alex attempts to reconcile the marvelous scenery, technological advances, and luxurious living with the knowledge that the holograms weren't being completely honest—what else are they lying about?
The dramatic story of neighbours in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden. Based on a true story.
The Nazi regime, headed by Adolf Hitler, sought to punish its enemies, as well as to exterminate Jews, Gypsies, and other groups deemed inferior, by starving, shooting, and gassing them in a vast network of concentration camps. Most lethal of all were six death camps built in Poland, the largest being the infamous Auschwitz. Filled with eyewitness testimony, this volume tells the story of the shocking war crimes enacted in those camps and how those awful places were eventually liberated.
When a boy washes up on a desert island, he is sure he’s on his own in the world. But there’s someone else living there: Hom, a peace-loving creature who has lost his family, too. Alone on the island together, they learn from each other and become the best of friends. So when a rescue ship appears on the horizon, the boy has a big decision to make . . .
In the brown house, Claire and Wes were home. But home turned to nowhere, and nowhere turned to anywhere. Then somewhere finally came, and finally, always. This lyrical story is timely and thoughtful, depicting the life of two children thrust into homelessness and uncertain housing situations as they move out of their house, to a motel, to a shelter, and finally another more permanent home. Throughout, the duo is challenged by uncomfortable new places and inquiries from strangers, but ultimately, they never lose their optimism or determination. They have each other, no matter at home, nowhere, anywhere, or somewhereCalways.