Hassan is newly arrived in America and he misses his home in Somalia. Hassan has learned just a few words of English, and his first day at school is very different from back home and lonely. Hassan discovers a way to communicate through art. Hassan tells his story. His teacher invites an interpreter to the classroom so that he can share the story of his past.
Things are never quite the same after Jacob and Laura’s lovable but idiosyncratic grandfather moves in.
Having been rejected by the Nomana–the revered warrior-monk order they long to join–sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
Over the course of a summer in Wales, 16-year-old Ginny, the artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father’s earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
The great sculptor Gaston Pompicard creates a snow sculpture for his friends the children, and then later he receives a similar gift from them during the last snow of winter.
In 1956, 16-year-old Gordon Westley finds his summer vacation shattered by tragedy, forcing him to come face-to-face with the darkest–and the sweetest–side of human nature.
Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences.
When a defective time-jumping device strands Theodore, a teen from the distant future, in the twenty-first century, he is helped by two high schoolers–Jules, who is having time problems of his own, and Gen, an old friend Jules was about to ask out.
Biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, written as a child’s school report.
An informative look at the little-known Xinjiang Province of China, closed to foreigners in 1949 and only reopened in 1984, detailing its history, its use as a testing ground for nuclear weapons, its natural resources, and its people.