The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

Presents a descriptive list of all the things required to have a Christmas like the author's grandmother had, including farm animals, stories of Scotland, ice skating in the moonlight, and joining friends, family, and neighbors at church on Christmas Eve.

Simple text and color illustrations present the life of Coco Chanel.

After tsunami waves sweep over the Imagination Station, Patrick and Beth wash up on the shores of Japan as disaster engulfs the city of Tokyo, where they help an abandoned child and call on all their courage to prevent more damage.

"Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading...

In an adaptation of a memoir by the same name, the author recounts how, over the course of a century, a small cottage once owned by his family on the outskirts of Berlin was inhabited by a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees, and a Stasi informant, as the world experienced a world war and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Describes the events of the devastating dust storms of the 1930s.

In Paris, France, more than a hundred years ago, a small man named Lalouche is let go from his job as a mail carrier and discovers that he has great skill as a fighter.

Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is taken from her home and new friend to become an exhibit in a museum, until the director's niece, Tory, notices how sad Mossy is and helps arrange for her to go home.