Books from Carolrhoda Books
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How Wise is an Owl?: The Strange Things People Say about Animals in the Woods
By Deborah DennardProvides fascinating facts and puts to rest many common myths about some woodland animals, including whether a porcupine can really throw its quills and whether or not bats can see.
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Flush!: Treating Wastewater
By Karen Mueller CoombsSupports the national curriculum standards Production, Distribution, and Consumption; Science Technology and Society; and Civic Ideals and Practices as outlined by the National Council for the Social Studies.
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Lessons from Underground
By Bryan MethodsMr. Scant had overheard our conversation. “Empire is an expression of ... “Mr. Scant?” “Yes, Master Oliver?” “I want to learn everything. Again. Everything we learned together, from the beginning. Will you go on being my teacher?
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Take Time to Relax!
By Nancy CarlsonTina the beaver and her family constantly rush off in different directions, until a storm keeps them snowbound at home.
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From Blossom to Honey
By Ali MitgutschDescribes how bees turn flower nectar into the honey which the beekeeper extracts from the hive.
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An Island Far from Home
By John DonahueThe twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the fighting in Fredericksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner ...
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My Homework Ate My Homework
By Patrick JenningsMath is not ten-year-old Zaritza's best subject.
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
By Gretchen WoelfleMumbet was determined to try. Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells her story for the first time in a picture book biography, and her brave actions set a milestone on the road toward ending slavery in the United States.
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The Steel Pan Man of Harlem
A mysterious man appears in Harlem and promises to rid the city of its rats by playing the steel pan drum, in a retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin set during the Harlem Renaissance.
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The Lost Prince
By Matt MykluschDean Seaborne is thrown off his ship by the Pirate King. To redeem himself, he must find the treasure of Zenhala. But the longer Dean stays on the island, the more he questions his mission.
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Little Wolf's Book of Badness
By Ian WhybrowLittle Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.
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The Rule of Claw
By John Brindley34 And when Ash moved closer, trying just to protect her friend but with all the appearance of an assault, boy Baz attacked first, hissing and opening his mouth too wide, striking at the bare flesh of Ash's arm, dropping from his bed in ...
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Aftermath
By Emily Barth IslerAfter her brother's death from a heart defect, Lucy starts seventh grade at a new school--whose students survived a shooting four years ago--and must navigate different kinds of grief and healing
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
By Vaunda Micheaux NelsonThis biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.
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Don't Call Me Grandma
By Vaunda Micheaux NelsonGreat-grandmother Nell eats fish for breakfast, she doesn't hug or kiss, and she does NOT want to be called grandma.
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The Rooster and the Fox
A proud rooster is tricked by a sly fox.
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Dino-Dancing
By Lisa Wheeler"Dinosaurs compete in genres of dance from hip-hop to ballet to swing dancing and more at the Dino-Dancing Finale"--
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What If It Never Stops Raining?
By Nancy CarlsonTim is always worrying about something, but things never turn out as badly as he thinks they will.
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Dino-Halloween
By Lisa WheelerThe dinosaurs enjoy a variety of Halloween activities, including visiting a haunted house, carving pumpkins, and trick-or-treating.
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Nothing Scares Us
By Frieda WishinskyBest friends Lenny and Lucy each have a secret fear--Lucy is frightened by a TV monster, Lenny by spiders.