Abrams: 1969 books
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...
by Julie Sternberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
I hate camp. I just hate it. I wish I didn’t. But I do. Being here is worse than bug juice on a burger. Or homework on Thanksgiving. Or water seeping into my shoes.
In this sequel to Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, Eleanor is off to summer camp. At first she’s excited, but when she gets there...
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...
by Andrea Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**A #1 New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
The creators of the New York Times bestselling picture books Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect are back with a story about the power of curiosity in the hands of a child who is on a mission...
by Andrea Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
New York Times Bestseller
Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal—to fly—Rosie...
by Tom Angleberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
McToad likes Thursdays. Why? Because on every other day of the week, McToad mows Big Island, but on Thursdays, McToad mows Tiny Island. To do so, he puts his mower on the back of a truck, which drives to a train, which goes to a helicopter, which flies to a boat, which uses a crane to put the lawn...
by Toni Buzzeo
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Smoke billows up.
Cool water flows.
Whose boat is that?
Do you know?
This nonfiction ode to boats features six kinds of workers and their boats—a patrol boat, a tugboat, a car ferry, a lobster boat, a lifeboat, and a fireboat—with important parts properly labeled. The answer to each inquiring...
by Tom Angleberger
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Once upon a time there was a Princess . . .
. . . who made a pit stop.
While the Birds and Beasts changed her tires, her Fairy Godmother told her she was in last place! With just one lap left! She might as well give up!
Give up? Not THIS princess! Instead, she hit the gas!
Join Her Royal Highness...
Full Speed Ahead!
How Fast Things Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Did you know that a tornado travels faster than a race car? Or that a human and spider travel at the same speed? Full Speed Ahead! is the first picture book to directly compare the speeds of animals, modes of transport, and forces of nature in a clear and visually striking album format. Objects are...
by Daniel Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health and—since the bird can no longer migrate with its family—charts a course to head south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy life at sea until both the healing process and the...
by Ethan Long
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The mice at the North Pole are getting ready to deck the halls with all the essentials. They’ve got ornaments and twinkle lights, candy canes and popcorn garlands. One by one, the mice unpack all the merriest decorations, but soon the items become a bit unexpected. Hot cocoa? Fuzzy dice? A map?...
Milestones of Flight
From Hot-Air Balloons to SpaceShipOne
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Milestones of Flight takes readers soaring through the high points of American aviation: from the Wright brothers and their competitors to the military pilots who first circumnavigated the globe, from the initial space rocket to the moon walk, from the earliest manmade satellite to today’s spy drones....
First Flight Around the World
The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
In 1924 the U.S. Army sent eight young men on a bold attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the globe by flight. Men from five other countries—Great Britain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Argentina—had the same goal. The...