Abrams: 1969 books
Dear Primo
A Letter to My Cousin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
From first-time Mexican author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh comes the story of two cousins, one in America and one in Mexico, and how their daily lives are different yet similar. Charlie takes the subway to school; Carlitos rides his bike. Charlie plays in fallen leaves; Carlitos plays among the...
Soldier for Equality
José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life the story of a Mexican-American war hero
José de la Luz Sáenz (1888–1953)—or Luz—believed in fighting for what was right. Although he was born in the United States, he and his family experienced prejudice because of their Mexican heritage....
Pure Grit
How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs...
Thomas Jefferson
A Day at Monticello
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In this fascinating story, readers spend a day with Thomas Jefferson as he and his grandson visit the vast plantation of Monticello. Readers learn about Jefferson; the gadgets and household items that he reinterpreted and the plow he invented; the famous house; the surrounding farms with...
by Jared Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A bunch of friendly vegetables wear colorful underwear of all varieties—big, small, clean, dirty, serious, and funny—demonstrating for young ones the silliness and necessity of this item of clothing. The unexpectedness of vegetables in their unmentionables is enough to draw giggles, but the pride...
Elizabeth Warren
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Elizabeth Warren shares the incredible story of the first female senator of Massachusetts. Elizabeth came from a struggling middle-class family in Oklahoma City. After a heart attack put Elizabeth’s father out of work, she helped out by babysitting, waitressing, and sewing, all while shining as...
Sitting Bull
Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Sitting Bull (c. 1831–1890) was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever lived. From Sitting Bull’s childhood—killing his first buffalo at age 10—to being named war chief to leading his people against the U.S. Army, Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People...
Red Cloud
A Lakota Story of War and Surrender
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The award-winning author and illustrator of Black Elk’s Vision and Sitting Bull continues his picture-book biography series with Red Cloud, the story of one of the most controversial leaders in Native American history.
A leader among the Lakota during the 1860s, Chief Red Cloud deeply opposed...
Rhino in the House
The Story of Saving Samia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From the award-winning author of the bestselling Library Mouse series comes a biographical picture book about the true story of rhino champion Anna Merz and the black rhinoceros Samia. With a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Lewa Downs Conservancy, this engaging story is perfect for animal...
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Crack open this tale of family and fright, as cute as it is creepy. All the animals in the zoo have friends and family to play with and love. All of them, that is, except Quackenstein. Lonely and bitter in his ramshackle corner, he decides to adopt an egg. He cares for it diligently, waiting until...
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Renée Kurilla
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
All in step with wing in wing . . . Chicks can conquer anything! Nerdy Chick has been waiting all day for the Rocket Club meeting. But when she gets there, she finds a disturbing sign tacked to the door: “NO CHICKS ALLOWED!!!” Puzzled, then baffled, then just plain mad, Nerdy Chick sets out to...
Mummies Exposed!
Creepy and True #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Just when you think that you know everything there is to know about mummies, new ones are discovered! Packed with facts but light in tone, this book introduces young readers to the most compelling examples of mummies from all over the world. There are many books about Egyptian mummies, but *Mummies...
Abraham Lincoln
The Making of America #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The third installment of the Making of America series, Abraham Lincoln, tells of one of our most beloved presidents. Born in a cabin deep in the backwoods of Kentucky, growing up in a family considered “the poorest of the poor,” Lincoln rose to become the sixteenth president of the United States....
Digging a Hole to Heaven
Coal Miner Boys
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
At 12 years old, Conall has already worked in the coal mines of West Virginia for two years. He spends his days deep underground with his faithful mule, Angel, carting loads of coal back and forth between the coal seams and the main shaft, where elevators take the coal up to the surface. One day a...