Books in Once Upon A... series

Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first folktale comes from East Africa with a talking gazelle, and the second one from France with a talking cat, both animals are clever and help their poor masters win fame, fortune, and the hand of a beautiful princess

A picture book for children

Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first one from Wales and the second one from Germany.

In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease

Bucky and his father, prospecting for gold in Alaska in 1898, must overcome storms, dangerous mountain trails, and wilderness predators before confronting the final challenge of human treachery

In the summer of 1952, Betsy and her friends worry about contracting polio, a mysterious disease for which Betsy's mother and other researchers are creating a vaccine. By the author of Child Star: When Talkies Came to Hollywood.

A picture book for children

Book by Goetz, William R.

On November 22, 1963, Bernardo skips school in order to go to Dealy Plaza to see his hero, President John F. Kennedy, and the boy witnesses the assassination. By the author of It's Only Goodbye.

Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first folktale comes from India, where a powerful sage imprisons his beloved daughter in a floating palace after he catches a man gazing at her, and the second one comes from Germany, where a beautiful girl with long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

Rosie dreams of quitting school to go to work in a factory despite older sister Freyda's complaints about the brutal, unsafe conditions at work, in a story set against the tragedy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.

After her brother Mitch returns home from the war in Vietnam, Samantha must come to terms with the actions of the war protestors, the effects of the war on Mitch, and the tough choices that lie ahead of her.