Armando and his father work as trash-pickers at the Tijuana, Mexico dump. When Señor David spreads a blue tarp on the ground and begins to teach, Armando’s father knows it is time for Armando to learn.

Told with honesty and hope, the book highlights the power of one person to make a difference in the world. Based on a true story, this-award winning book is also available in Spanish.

Barbara McClintock grew corn, faced long odds as a woman of science, devised key experiments, and persisted over her many decades of studying the cells of maize. In 1983, at the age of 81, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her most noted discovery, “jumping genes,” changed the world of modern genetics and today, her name is recognized worldwide.

This is a fascinating portrait of a scientist who harnessed her dreams and her intellect to challenge the world’s understanding of heredity.

A brilliant light shines in the night sky. As a cricket burrows under the straw in a stable, a donkey enters with a man and woman. “No sleep tonight!” grumps the cricket.

This is the story of the Nativity, as told through the voice of one of the smallest creatures in the stable. Poetic text and splendid collage illustrations combine to make this a special book for a special time of year.

Join the CryptoKids and Alphy, their blue dinosaur pal, as they teleport to real and imagined places. Along the way, they discover Greek and Latin word chunks and find clues to unlocking a mystery.

Explore 200 basic Greek and Latin roots, through eight Teleporter destinations (like the Classical World, the Alphasaurus Academy, and Mathopolis), and unlock clues to a mystery, by using the Greek and Latin word roots and definitions.

This zany 44-page, full-color picture book is jam-packed with Greek and Latin roots that help make decoding big words fun!

This student workbook, the companion to "Cryptomania!," guides third to sixth graders (and beyond) to the 200 cool Greek and Latin roots found in the book, plus 100 extras. Alphy, the Microcyanosaurus, helps build strong vocabulary with roots that will last a lifetime.

Supports Common Core State Standards for roots. A great tool for teachers, students, homeschoolers, families, tutors, and logophiles. (133 pages chock full of fun).

Author Gary Paulsen writes books young people love to read. Against all odds, he has become a popular, prolific children’s writer. Known for his best-selling Hatchet, a Newbery Honor winner, Paulsen has more than two hundred books to his credit, ranging from thought-provoking to hilarious.

This illustrated biography provides the story of difficult childhood, his wild adventures, and the many accomplishments of this celebrated American author.

Do you dream of writing for children, but don’t know where to start? Here’s the perfect book to jump-start you on your path to publication.

Award-winning children’s book author Edith Hope Fine takes you on a step-by-step journey through the world of children’s book publishing. You’ll find journaling ideas, writing techniques, grammar clues, and advice on submission, publication, marketing, and more.

With quotes from fifty published children’s authors, and 89+ specific tips, this book is a must-have for anyone beginning a career in children’s books.

Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged his followers to “meet hate with love.”

This five-chapter biography for young readers captures King’s legacy of powerful words and peaceful protests and portrays the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., in an age-appropriate story of the civil rights movement in the United States.

The book includes a timeline, words to know, a further reading list, and an index.

This easy-to-follow guide meets all your basic grammar needs. Clear text, appealing cartoons, and right-wrong examples help you focus on common grammatical errors and how to correct them.

For ages 10 to 110, this popular book has found a permanent place with students from upper elementary to university, homeschoolers, families, companies, and anyone seeking a user-friendly guide to style and usage.

Who or whom? Lay or lie? Conjunction, pronoun, predicate, or gerund? If such questions and terms leave you scratching your head, you need this hip and fun follow-up to "Nitty-Gritty Grammar."

"More Nitty-Gritty Grammar" has a new, easy-to-use alphabetical format and the same winning formula of wacky cartoons, off-the-wall examples, and catchy reminders.

This volume will help you sidestep common bloopers, untangle your malapropisms, secure those dangling modifiers, and help you to speak and write with clarity and confidence.

Rosa Parks considered herself an ordinary person, but she’s known the world around as someone who changed the course of history. Today we call Rosa Parks the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.

This five-chapter biography helps young readers discover that Rosa Parks is much more than a single incident on a Montgomery bus.

The book includes a timeline, words to know, a further reading list, and an index.

“Splashy sunset paints the sky. Shy moon tiptoes, climbs up high . . .” Daylight fades and bedtime nears. The wide world settles down, coming ever closer to home until, at last, there are good-night hugs and kisses for a little sleepyhead.

Richly painted, evocative scenes illuminate the lyrical text, imbuing the whole with mystery and a sense of comfort and warmth, and making this a bedtime story to treasure for all time.

When the Night Man takes lemons from Rosalinda’s beloved tree, she seeks advice from friends and neighbors. But it is La Anciana, the Ancient One, whose magic helps Rosalinda’s tree “glow golden in the night, with lemons as big and fat as baby moons.”

Set in the Mexican countryside and shining with the light of sharing and forgiveness, this gentle, award-winning book is also available in Spanish.

When Miss Marigold challenges the kids at Pepper Lane Elementary to turn an unpromising patch of their schoolyard into a garden full of fruits, flowers, and vegetables, they know they'll need all the help they can get.

Soon everyone in the community is lending a hand—including an unlikely neighbor with a soft spot for gardening—and it isn't long before peppers, zuccchini, sugar peas, snapdragons, zinnias, and much more are growing and blooming.

"Water, Weed, and Wait" celebrates the wonders of creating a school garden.