A summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.

"This picture book biography follows the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate, Pakistani women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai"--

Inspirado por los esfuerzos heroicos de Luis Soriano Bohórquez, el bibliotecario verdadero quien inició la Fundación Biblioburro. Ana ama las historias. Pero en su pequeño pueblo, hay pocos libros, y ella ya los ha leído todos. Una mañana, ¡Ana se despierta con el ¡tacatac! de cascos y la maravillosa imagen de dos burros cargando una biblioteca repleta de todos los libros que una niña pequeña pueda desear! Los premiados creadores de libros ilustrados Monica Brown y John Parra presentan a sus lectores la biblioteca móvil que viaja a través de montañas y valles para llevar el alfabetismo y la cultura a las zonas rurales de Colombia y a los niños que ansiosamente esperan al Biblioburro

Once her parents are off to bed, Poesy excitedly awaits the monsters that creep into her room. With the knowledge she's gained from her trusty Monster Book and a few of her favorite toys, Poesy easily fends off a werewolf, a vampire, and much more.

After Eva Baruch, 11, of New York is caught shoplifting for the umpteenth time, her widowed mother moves to the country. Eva befriends a 40-year-old beekeeper and he opens her eyes to the world of bees with positive effect on her kleptomania.

If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in someone else's household and educate their children - in particula- r, their daughters. Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, giving a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a creature officially did not exist. Features the Brontes and Anna Leonowens, whose memoirs inspired The King and I.