This book is about a world-renowned painter Frida Kahlo, who made an important contribution to Mexican art and culture

The story of NASA`s new millennium program and how it makes scientists` dreams come true

The story is about George Washington`s mother

For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of segregationists when she becomes the first African-American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960

Mother Duck and Father Duck are worried about Ruby. As the littlest duckling of the family, she learns to eat and swim long after her four sisters and brothers. Father Duck frets that Ruby will never catch up, but Mother Duck calmly reassures him that Ruby will flourish -- "in her own time."

The field trip to the planetarium is foiled when the museum turns out to be closed, but Ms. Frizzle saves the day. The Magic School Bus turns into a spaceship and takes the class on a trip zooming through the atmosphere, to the Moon, and beyond! With up-to-date facts about the solar system, revised for this edition

Help children make a personal connection with this harvest holiday and learn about its history! Teach about the Pilgrims, the Mayflower, and the First Thanksgiving with the Sail on the Mayflower board game, Thanksgiving Memories Mini-Book, Fact or Folklore Riddles, moveable Perky Turkey, a read-aloud play, easy art activities, poems, songs, and literature and computer links. Plus, a big colorful pocket-chart poetry poster!

Teaching map skills has never been so easy. Simply put up the colorful poster and use the dozens of great activities in this book to teach essential maps skills such as cardinal directions, reading a map key, following a route, and lots more

This book of full-color transparencies, accompained by mini-lessons and activities, opens up a whole new world for students and techers alike. Students learn to read a map and map key, find direction using a compass rose, navigate a floor plan, interpret symbols,and more

“I could do that,” says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the age of nineteen? Why, she could do that, too. But one thing Esther and other women could NOT do was vote. Only men could do that