Ezra and Irene live in the city, but their yard looks like a farm! They grow tomatoes on the roof, corn in the front yard, flowers in the window, and lemons for lemonade. Everyone helps with the garden-even their friends.
When her new tree house is completed, the narrator invites her friend Marisol for a sleepover. The girls have fun writing, drawing, and telling stories. They eat breakfast there and then watch the natural world from a different perspective-a robin feeding her babies and squirrels playing tag right over their heads.
Darcie and her father are invited to eat dinner at the homes of several neighbors. Darcie is unsure about some of the foods - rice with raisins, artichokes, beef stroganoff--but promises to be polite and eat everything. She stays open-minded and ends up liking everything she tries.
This is a biography of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known as Nellie Bly. She wanted to be a writer and although uneducated, she landed a job as a journalist. She achieved her dream and proved that a woman could do a job just as well as a man.
A group of doctors in France was dissatisfied with the way people were getting medical help around the world. So in 1971, they formed an organization called Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders. This audiobook explains some of their efforts in helping during conflicts, natural disasters, and epidemics.
Throughout history immigrants have been coming to the United States to seek a better life. Immigration often brings struggles and hardships for the newcomers, as described in the stories of three immigrants who had both positive and negative experiences. By understanding tolerance, as well as the dangers of stereotyping and making assumptions about people, we can help to make the transition for immigrants much smoother.
Born into a poor Pakistani family, Iqbal Masih was sold into bonded labor when he was only four years old. Iqbal was a brave and resourceful boy, and was unwilling to submit to the poor working conditions and long hours imposed on child laborers. This is the true story of a young hero who devoted his short life to protecting the human rights of child workers around the world.
