Reading Challenges

Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.

Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.

When Yasmin's father explains to her about explorers and maps, Yasmin decides to make a map of her neighborhood and she brings it along on a trip to the farmers' market with her mother--but will the map help her when they are separated?

An illustrated biography of British primatologist Jane Goodall, describing her childhood, the years she spent in the African forests to observe chimpanzees, and her efforts to protect and preserve primates and their habitats.

A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut

Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey

When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots.

After his kitten walks across a piano keyboard, a composer writes down the notes exactly as he heard them and enters the tune into a competition.

Through rhyme and mixed-media collage illustrations, 'rain fish'--the varied, colorful, and unique little collections of materials that float along on streams of rain water during storms--come to life