Lawrence Schimel

"Find out what it was like to be a kid in ancient Egypt at the time the pyramids were being built."--

With one poem for each child, this collection explores the hopes of the thirty-four children disappeared and killed during Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile. --

A young girl tells her mother about a passageway in their yard. Down this passageway, it is not cold, there is no danger, and nothing bad can ever happen--and the person she longs for is with her again. The only problem is that, on some days, the passageway is not there. But maybe, together, mother and daughter can find a way to carry that feeling with them always.

"A high stakes dystopian drama about finding humanity in a world torn apart by violence."--Back cover.

"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--

A hippopotamus who's learned to speak English escapes the zoo and sets out for his home in Africa, but finds many distractions along the way.

"Come closer and look at these rocks: they're not normal stones at all! They're thousands and thousands of mollusks, fossilized together in the sediment. But how did a million oysters ever land on top of a mountain? Written by a geologist, this inquisitive journey guides readers through the movements of seas, strata, and tectonic plates. The landscapes of the present can be clues to events in the past. Lush, atmospheric illustrations offer fascinating...

HaiCuba/HaiKuba es una celebraci̤n de Cuba en haikus biling|es en espąol e ingľs. Descubre el tocororo con sus plumas rojas, blancas, y azules (igual que la bandera de Cuba), la guagua apretada, un barrio habanero, la salsa (su m͠sica y baile) y las guayabera, a trav̌s de poemas que capturan el ritmo de la vida en Cuba. Incluye una introducci̤n a la arte del haiku adem̀s de un anexo final con informaci̤n adicional sobre los temas cubiertos...

Explores the passions and contradictions--both human and political--that turned the prolific and brilliant painter, Diego Rivera, into an increasingly universal cultural figure. Diego Rivera was a revolutionary painter in more ways than one. Attending art school at 11, by his twenties he was counted among the most influential figures of the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, including Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, and Gris. Rivera's murals,...

When a little girl who loves maps and an old man who dreams of sailing the world connect through a message in a bottle, their communication inspires a visit that forges a lasting friendship, which expands both their worlds.