Charley Maplewood has never been one for parties. That would require friends, which he doesn't have. But now that he's turning ten - the big one oh - he decides to throw a birthday party for himself, complete with a "House of Horrors" theme and a big birthday cake. Of course things don't work out as Charley plans. In trying to make friends, he ends up inviting the class bully Cougar to come, an…
This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-second president, George W. Bush. There are now three Georges in the catalog of presidential names, a Bush alongside the presidential family tree, and a new face on the endpaper portraiture. Hilariously illustrated by…
Alexander had hoped to save the dollar from his grandparents for a walkie-talkie.
The book looks at teen-age concerns frankly and carefully and demonstrates how to deal with them in a healthy way.'
This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of color. He lived by the idea that black people should demand equlity by taking their lives and futures into their own hands. With guidance from the religious leader Elijah Muhammad, Mal
includes an illustrated glossary and Questions and Puzzles related to the story