Children's Books

Philip Vera Cruz came to the United States from the Philippines in search of an education. Instead, he became a farmworker to survive. This turn of events led Philip and other Filipino farmworkers, the manongs, to start the historic strike in Delano,...

Dalip Singh Saund was born to a Sikh family in a small village in India. He went on to become a scholar, public speaker, author, farmer, judge, and the first Asian American elected to the United States Congress. Learn about Dalip's fascinating,...

Introduce readers to the life of political activist Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during World War II and went on to be a leader in many of the liberation struggles of her time, with the Leaders Like Us Yuri Kochiyama...

Help young readers develop sight word recognition, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with the fun stories in this 6-book set. Each storybook includes engaging, humorous illustrations and repeated text featuring some of the most useful sight...

Introduce readers to the life of author and community outreach leader Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City, in this inspirational biography—part of the Leaders Like Us series. Pura believed the library was for everyone. Using...

Help young readers develop sight word recognition, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with the fun stories in this 6-book set. Each storybook includes engaging, humorous illustrations and repeated text featuring some of the most useful sight...

This super cool paperback beginning reader collection includes five of the grooviest stories from the Pete the Cat I Can Read series by New York Times bestselling artist James Dean: Pete the Cat: Play Ball!, Pete the Cat: Pete's Big Lunch, Pete the Cat:...

Help young readers develop sight word recognition, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with the fun stories in this 6-book set. Each storybook includes engaging, humorous illustrations and repeated text featuring some of the most useful sight...

Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese American woman who went from earning a PhD in philosophy to becoming an activist in the black power movement in Detroit. She used ideas about revolution to inspire people to create a new world and imagine a new way of living...

The Dr. Maggie's Phonics Readers series is rooted in current, cutting-edge phonics research. The combination of fun, high-interest stories that kids read over and over with a progression of skills that build from book to book allows children to read...

Adorable animals help young children master key early language skills. Perfect for PreK-K teachers, day care and nursery school providers and parents preparing for school readiness. This set of 24 alphabet books to help young children learn phonemic...

In this companion unit to Health and the Human Body, students are introduced to the main systems of the human body, they explore emotions and learn how to deal with them, and they come to understand and appreciate those children who have health...

Help young readers develop sight word recognition, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with the fun stories in this 6-book set. Each storybook includes engaging, humorous illustrations and repeated text featuring some of the most useful sight...

This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes. Everybody loves Mother...

This set of 24 readers featuring classic nursery rhymes and songs can help children increase vocabulary, develop an understanding of story structure, and begin to recognize sounds and letters. Builds early reading skills including rhyming & rhythm...

Based on a true story set in Sudan, this is a novel that tells two stories—one about a contemporary child who spends her days fetching water, the other about one of this African country's "lost boys." Simply and economically written, this account of the...