People And Places category: 11583 books

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclear...

Fruitopia is set in a parallel reality where the world has been affected by super-storms caused by global climate change. In response people have chosen to change society, ceasing the use of combustion engines and living off grid in local communities. Technology has been harnessed for the good of...

From Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state and New York Times bestselling author of Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, comes a captivating memoir of her remarkable childhood. Condoleezza Rice’s life began in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950s, a place and time where black...

Welcome to the fun discoveries of my friend White! White shares 18 beautiful real life photos taken by the author in exotic places around world. This fun family orientated book is perfect for introducing children to the wonders of the color white.White Went Around the World is the first book...

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an...

Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what...

In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake—one that registered...

Insightful and fun, this collection of poetry captures the essence of the African American experience for young people.

This fascinating addition to the best-selling Who Was...? series does not settle questions of theology. Instead, it presents young readers with a biography that covers what is known historically about Jesus and places in his life in the context of his world when Jerusalem was part of the Roman Empire....

Have you ever: Chopped the head off a zombie? Been chased by a werewolf? Spent the night in a haunted house? If you answered NO to all of the above then this is the book for you! Frightened of ghosts? Great! Do your legs turn to jelly? Cool! Inside you can read about loads of crazy stuff and how to...

This is a story of almost unbelievable heroism and great daring, told with gusto and sincerity. It is told through the lives of courageous men and women—some of them known to us by name; most of them, unknown.  The Underground Railroad maneuvered the escape of Southern slaves to the North....

A gorgeously depicted story of the Lady of Guadalupe and her love for the people of Mexico In stunning words and images, Tomie dePaola renders the beautiful story of the Mother of God appearing to an indigenous man in Mexico to teach true peace to the native people. In these visitations, the...

In the last few decades, more and more people are going to college to further their education. It's hard to become a scientist, a professor, or a businessperson without getting some sort of college degree--but college isn't always necessary to achieve success. Some people are ready to enter the workforce...

Young Marcus Garvey was a person with a big dream.  He dreamed of gathering people all across the globe so they could come together and work collectively using each other’s strengths.  Garvey created a newspaper company, a shipping company, and several organizations with the idea that we could...