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Illustrations and easy-to-read text describe a number of different shapes.

Kiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday.

When tiny Hewitt is born into a family of giants, everyone learns that sometimes small is best of all.

Presents a children's illustrated biography of baseball great Roberto Clemente who played for the Pittsburg Pirates from 1955 until his untimely death in an airplane crash in 1972.

A free-verse novel about eleven-year-old Xiao Mei's visit with her extended family in China, where the Chinese-American girl finds many differences but also the similarities that bind a family together.

When strict Mrs. Derkman moves next door to third-grader Katie Carew, scares her friends away, and insists she keep her dog, Pepper, on a leash, Katie finds a non-magical solution to the problem.

Katie, an ordinary third-grader who is sometimes touched by a magical wind that turns her into other people, gains insights into the thinking of a new girl at school who is trying to fit in by doing all the wrong things.

As long-awaited fourth grade starts, Katie is overwhelmed when the magic wind causes her to switch twice--first into a new classmate and then into Mr.

Third-grader Katie Carew, transformed by a magical wind into Lucille, the nasty lunch lady, gets the older woman fired for starting a food fight and must figure out how to get Lucille's job back.

Introduces the history of Groundhog Day, presents facts about groundhogs, and discusses the ways people celebrate this holiday.

When her mother has a new baby, Elizabeti is given charge of her younger brother and finds it more difficult to take care of him than it was to care for her rock doll.

Discusses seven dinosaurs, all about the size of a dog or chicken, which are believed to be the bird's prehistoric cousin.

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.

A biography of Soichiro Honda, the founder of the Honda Motor Company, discussing his early influences and career as an inventor and manufacturer of motorcycles and cars.

When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them.