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|  | | Annushka's Voyage
The story of two young girls who emigrate from Russia to Ellis Island around the turn of the century.
Set at the turn of the century, the story follows the sisters aboard a gigantic steamship jammed with immigrants and across the Atlantic Ocean. | |  | | Bring Back My Gerbil
An Early Reader available through Scholastic's Lucky Book Club in schools around the country. This is level 4 of the Hello Reader Series for grades 2 and 3 (ages 7-9)
Tyler laughs at my riddles and jokes. That's why he's my best friend. That's also why I let him call me Katie. Everyone else has to call me Caitlin. My second best friend is Jake. He doesn't laugh at my jokes. That's because Jake is Tyler's gerbil. | |  | | The Boy Who Stuck Out His Tongue: A Yiddish Folktale
When the widow asks her son to light a fire in the stove, he sticks his tongue out at her. But when his tongue gets stuck to a wrought-iron fence, the kind folk of this little Hungarian village are quick to rally round. Written in the style of Isaac Bashevis Singer..
Once, in a little Hungarian village, known for its kind but foolish folk, there was a great snowstorm. | |  | | The Crow
This book takes readers back in time to discover the life and history of the Crow Indians--the foods they ate, the weapons they hunted with, and their struggle to preserve their land and the nation.
The sun scorched the earth on June 25, 1876. It was a day that would forever change the fate of the Crow and all other Native Americans...Curly was one of five Crow and forty Arikara Indian scouts hired by General Armstrong Custer. |
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