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I dare you to look at each and every photograph in this coffee-table sized book by Zuckerman and not want to start an inquiry project. I da...

After watching her entire family murdered, fifteen-year-old Amari’s idyllic life becomes a living nightmare as she is forced to march to the...

Sneaky, mischievous animals characterize the twenty-one Native American trickster tales in this compact collection. While this book will pr...

This urban retelling of the tale of a beautiful and sensuous woman who has a strong loyalty to her people and a deep need to be free will re...

Can you imagine exchanging gifts and singing Christmas carols with men who had killed your friends and been trying to kill you for months?...

Few things are freakier to our New York City students than purple beetles, bright blue crayfish, and iridescent spiders. These and so many m...

Sometimes the library gets readers excited about reading. Sometimes the library gets non-readers excited about reading. And sometimes the ...

If a deadly and contagious sickness struck your city, and the wealthier classes began to evacuate, would you stay, and help your fellow cit...

Imagine the man found guilty of raping you when you were twelve was being released from prison after serving three years of a nine year ...

Tony Medina explains, “[I and I] discourages thinking of oneself solely as an individual but instead as part of a community.” Written in ...

Have you ever watched someone you love walk a dangerous path? A frustrated Frankie Torres Towers is watching his older brother, Steve, be...

Many people love Superman, but I think most people, even big fans, will find a lot of new information in this oversized guide to one of the ...

Late one night a witness sees a car careening about before it slams into a lightpole. The two young occupants of the car are no more than t...

Life isn't always fair. In Jude's case, life has been extraordinarily unfair. When his physically abusive, drug-dealing father is mu...

Thomas doesn’t know anything about himself except for his first name. He stands in a large, slow moving elevator trying to dig up somethin...

Most folks are surprised to hear the word "zine" and "school library" in the same sentence, PA participants from the Zin...

This is the true story of the life of a boy who suffered the unimaginable and inconceivable horrors of war as a child soldier in Sierra Leon...

Football season brings many things: incredible plays by the fastest quarterbacks, rough and tumble tackles by the biggest and baddest defen...

Did you know that a butterfly’s wings magnified 585X their size reveal that they are made of feather-like scales? Or that shark skin magnif...

He experienced life as an outcast, he shot himself, he died in relative obscurity, and one of his paintings recently sold for almost $82 mil...