Construction workers ask Kristen, a young apprentice, to bring them snacks and supplies. Provides information on the workers' jobs and equipment.

Introduces the numbers one to ten as two mice describe their love for each other as "bigger than 1 bear" to "loftier than 10 lovebirds."

"A cumulative verse, alternating with additional narrative, describes the ecological and social transformation resulting from the work of Dr. Gordon Sato, a Japanese American cell biologist who made saltwater and desert land productive through the planting of mangrove trees in the tiny African country of Eritrea. Includes afterword, photographs, glossary, and author's sources"--Provided by publisher.

Nonfiction picture book. Susan L. Roth teaches about bowerbirds by explaining how their displays are similar to her collage works.

When a thirsty frog drinks up all the water in Australia, the other animals must think of a way to make him give it up.

Marco Polo's travels are recorded in an authentic looking diaryand scrapbook such as the great explorer might have kept.

For many years, Guido d'Arezzo, a young man from Tuscany, has imagined that his system of lines and spaces can be used as a written language of music and he is determined to make his ideas work.

Children prowl about the house at night in search of the origin of scary night noises.

What can you see in the backyard? Ghosts? Witches? Bats? Wolves? Count them.

Documents the inspiring January 2011 story about how thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and demonstrators joined hands around the great Library of Alexandria to protect the building and the freedom it represents.