"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple. John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to...

"Sixteen-year-old Rina Ziskind loves living in Seattle, with her amazing best friend and close-knit community. Suddenly, her school’s scholarship fund mysteriously disappears. In the blink of an eye, Rina’s father accepts a job as a mashgiach on a strawberry farm in Oregon, and the Ziskinds must move to a small country town with no Jewish schools, shuls, or stores. Rina is devastated. How will she graduate high school? Will she ever make new friends?...

Because one of her grandmothers lives down the street and the other in a far away country, Liliana experiences two very different ways of life when she visits them.

"City of Ice, John Farrow's first book in his acclaimed Emile Cinq-Mars series, which has been hailed by Booklist as "the best series in crime fiction today," has been published in over 17 countries. Now with The Storm Murders, the series continues. On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house sitting all by itself in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people....

A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who are on the other side of the mural, of loved ones lost...

"100 . . . infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America"--Provided by publisher.

Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom's class, because she's got a magic map - one that takes her students all over the world to do battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country and ... off they go to a place somewhere far, far away. When Ms. Frogbottom's crew lands in Scotland, they come nose to nose with the legendary Loch Ness Monster! --

"Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British lover, Diana. Seaton Manor is a comfortable haven, and Billy is eager to spend a few precious days in Diana's company pretending the war is far away. Unfortunately, Billy's leave is cut short when...

"In this book, a boy named Yakir and his friends invite you to learn about their lives in Israel, a tiny country between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian and Arabian Deserts. Although it is located in a region with many great deserts, Israel has a variety of different landscapes and climates. Israel's main language is Hebrew, but many of the country's children have grandparents who came to Israel from far-away nations and spoke many languages....