In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for the Christmas Train...

So begins author Lester Laminack's poetic memory of the adult who made him feel incredibly specia...

A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in th...

A collection of original poems that celebrate some of the amazingly diverse places in our nation....

The older sister of Dr. King relates how growing up in the segregated South of the 1920s taught h...

Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along wit...

Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's gra...

An anthology of universal poems focusing on the human experience--emotions, perceptions, and unde...

On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate c...

An anthology of poems focusing on unique places of historical, environmental, and or cultural int...

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day whe...

In 1889 Patty and Mildred Hill, two Kentucky sisters, wrote the words and composed the melody of ...