While still dressed in evening gowns, Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt go on a night flight above Washington, D.C. on April 1933. Extensively researched, the story contains actual dialogue and facts of the account. Breathtaking illustrations tell the trip of these two American heroines as it might have been.

Jim Murphy's Newbery Honor Book available for the first time in paperback.The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully ...

The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling authors of "Owen & Mzee" present the story of Hope, an orphaned dolphin rescued by the same team from Clearwater Marine that helped the tailless dolphin Winter and inspired the film "Dolphin Tale." Hope's story is the basis of the sequel "Dolphin Tale 2, " opening in September. Full color.

A poem cycle that reads as a novel, this Newbery Medal winner tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the dust bowl years of the Depression.