Abrams imprint: 1041 books
by Susan Verde
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
An eagle soaring among the clouds or a star twinkling in the night sky . . . a camel in the desert or a boat sailing across the sea—yoga has the power of transformation. Not only does it strengthen bodies and calm minds, but with a little imagination, it can show us that anything is possible.
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by Susan Goldman Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Since the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In the only photo-essay book about the quilts of Gee’s Bend for children, award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin explores the history and culture of this fascinating group of...
Separate Is Never Equal
Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A 2015 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book and a 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English,...
Fannie Never Flinched
One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fannie Sellins (1872–1919) lived during the Gilded Age of American Industrialization, when the Carnegies and Morgans wore jewels while their laborers wore rags. Fannie dreamed that America could achieve its ideals of equality and justice for all, and she sacrificed her life to help that dream come...
The Star People
A Lakota Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A grandmother's love is forever In this mystical story of remembrance and tradition, Sister Girl and her brother, Young Wolf, wander far from their village and face great danger, including stampeding animals and a wall of fire. The children barely save themselves, and as night approaches, they find...
Nurse, Soldier, Spy
The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This is the incredible true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who dressed as a man and fought in the Civil War. When she was 19, Sarah cut her hair, donned her brother’s clothes, and fled from Canada, where her father wanted her to marry an elderly gentleman. In the U.S., she went by the name Frank Thompson...
This Land Is Our Land
A History of American Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist!
American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven for the poor and oppressed; anyone, no matter his or her background, can find freedom here and achieve the “American Dream.” On the other...
Come On In, America
The United States in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and joined World War I. German submarine attacks on American ships in March 1917 were the overt motive for declaring war, but the underlying reasons were far more complex. Even after the United States officially joined, Americans were divided...
Alexander Hamilton
The Making of America #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers....
Funny Bones
Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras—skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities—came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852–1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons,...
Ballots for Belva
The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A timely true tale for the 2008 presidential election
In 1884, when men were the only people allowed to vote in national elections, Belva Lockwood took a bold but legal step: She ran for president! Women did not have the same rights as men, but Belva went on undeterred—and she got...
Ada's Ideas
The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s “mad” love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father...
A Woman in the House (and Senate)
How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
For the first 128 years of our country’s history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congresseven before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across...
Barbed Wire Baseball
How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A true story set in a Japanese-American internment camp in World War II. As a young boy, Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni) wanted to be a baseball player, even though everyone told him he was too small. He grew up to become a successful athlete, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. But when the Japanese attacked...