Clavito, el puercoespín

A little boy and his dog learn about the different workers who are building a house in his neighborhood and how each person's work is connected to all of the others.

The daughter of President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush shares the life of a young woman she met while on an internship with UNICEF and explains how, despite living with HIV and losing her family to AIDS, she is thriving and looking forward to giving her child a better life.

Suggested age: 10 years oldThere's only one spy left in the world -- the Last Spy. He has secrets to tell, and behind every secret there is a story. A mysterious destroyer of telescopes, who threatens to do away with astronomy. The search for a city that appears in every map, but never in the same place. An ancient book, written in an unknown language, kills those who try to decipher it. These are just a few of the mysteries, crimes and terrifying things that the Last Spy, always wandering from city to city, will have to confront.

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the...