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What happens when conservationists meet rhinos in trouble? They arrange to airlift them to safety! Follow National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert as they move rhinos out of harm’s way, meet a courageous little Hawaiian monk seal, and a pair of Siberian tiger cubs...

Some animals have a mind of their own. This is certainly the case for Mariska the NBA star Boris Diaw of the San Antonio Spurs takes young readers on safari as he explores his off-court passion: wildlife photography! Join Diaw as he escapes from stampeding wildebeests, comes face-to-face with...

Boys can be anything they want to be! This timely book joins and expands the gender-role conversation and gives middle-grade boys a welcome alternative message: that masculinity can mean many things. You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In Stories for Boys Who...

This entertaining and humorous chapter book features animals who can perform amazing acts like riding motocross, foretelling the weather, and playing a guitar. These stories will enchant readers and empower them to devour the more text-heavy “grown up” style of the book, while still keeping...

NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies Fourteen-year-old Piri is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz–Birkenau. After six months of being in the camp, she and her sister are liberated and rescued by the Swedish Red Cross. Soon after, she travels with her...

Eleven-year-old Rosey Sachs is worried about her school writing assignment. How can she write anything interesting about her ordinary life in Brooklyn? “I was born in 1896 and my hair is brown,” she writes. “As these two things are also true for just about everyone in the class, they are...

This is a story from the Great Explorers collection.

This is a story from the Great Explorers collection.

This is a story from the Great Explorers collection.

EARLY MORNING ON APRIL 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her glorious maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Thus the ship declared to be unsinkable was lost in one of the most infamous tragedies in history. Even now, a century later, the...

Young people will be absorbed in this story about a Genoese-born navigator who sailed to Newfoundland in command of a British ship in 1497. One year later, he sailed again in search of the Northwest Passage to Asia but failed to return. An engaging tale, this biography of Cabot's life is filled with interesting details and firsthand accounts of the isolation of life at sea.

During World War II, the United States was battling Japan. In 1942, the president of the United States signed an executive order, forcing more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes. These innocent people - many of them US citizens - would spend the next few years imprisoned behind barbed wire fences in what the government called internment camps. Learn more about these courageous heroes, including those who fought for justice and freedom.

L'auteur nous régale d'un texte dont les mots enrichissent, soutiennent, et affirment les identités culturelles des enfants noirs. Un vrai trésor, ce livre déborde de messages positifs et motivants pour montrer aux enfants l'avenir illimité devant eux.

The absorbing coming-of-age autobiography of a young American girl and her family stranded as enemy aliens in Berlin, the headquarters of Nazi Germany, during WWII. This compelling story—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes terrifying—immerses readers in a child’s view of life in Nazi...

How did a 14-year-old steal the Vatican's most guarded secret — using nothing but his ears? How did an enslaved man bluff his way to freedom on a train, in plain sight, in a single day? And how did NASA engineers save three astronauts 200,000 miles from Earth with duct tape, a sock, and 45 minutes on the clock? They all did the same thing: they made a 4D move — the move nobody else could see.4D Chess takes kids inside 25 of the smartest moments in human history — not just what happened, but how the thinking worked, at the exact second everything changed.

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Oregon in this new installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Oregon? introduces you to the state, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning about a distant destination. Visit famous landmarks like...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Wyoming in this new installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Wyoming? introduces you to the state, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning about a distant destination. Visit famous landmarks...

Isabel and Nicki Hoffman may be twins, but they're each one of a kind. Isabel loves dancing with her friends, while Nicki prefers skateboarding alone. In December 1999, the girls create a list of challenges to complete before midnight on New Year's Eve. But just before the new millennium arrives...

This is the first in a line of four books within the National Geographic Kids Chapters series that tell the true and hilarious stories of animals that love hijinks. In this book you’ll meet three naughty animals, including Fu Manchu, the orangutan escape artist. Fu Manchu lived at the Omaha...

Die besten Geschichten aus GEOlino extra! Im Einklang mit der Natur und ihren Geistern lebten die Indianer jahrtausendelang nach ihren eigenen Gesetzen. Über 500 Stämme bewohnten das Land – bis der weiße Mann aus Europa kam. Wigald Boning stellt Euch Geschichten vor über berühmte...