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1-22 of 22 results for "perseverance"
Written by Deborah Underwood
A porcupine on a mission, Isabel wants a balloon at her graduation just like her classmates will...
Pre-K - 2nd
Written by Tom Lichtenheld
Cloudette is a small cloud who wants to do big things. When a big storm blows her into an unknown...
Pre-K - 2nd
Written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
A boy in a drought-ravaged village in Africa wonders how things work. Teaching himself English from...
1st - 5th
Written by Ann Malaspina
Meet Alice Coachman, whose parents think she needs to act more like a lady. Alice doesn’t give up...
1st - 4th
Written by Claire Rudolf Murphy
It’s 1896, and women in America don’t have the right to vote in elections. Follow along with...
1st - 5th
Written by Laurie Ann Thompson
Though he was born with a physical disability, Emmanuel quickly proves that he is just as capable...
Pre-K - 3rd
Written by JaNay Brown-Wood
Imani is teased by the other children in her tribe for being so small. With the love and...
1st - 4th
Written by Claire A. Nivola
A Kenyan woman fights to save her country, one tree at a time. This is the story of Wangari...
K - 3rd
Written by Peter Sis
This book tells the story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of the classic children’s book The...
K - 3rd
Written by Chris Barton
As a young boy, Lonnie was always building things, from bamboo shooters to rockets—he even built...
2nd - 5th
Written by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Ever since she was a little girl, Melba Doretta Liston loved music. One day, her momma bought her a...
1st - 3rd
Written by Cynthia Levinson
Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama,...
K - 5th
Written by Rose Blue & Corinne J. Naden
Ron loves going to the library and looking at the books, but living in South Carolina in the 1950s,...
1st - 3rd
Written by Jennifer Torres
A young Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and searches for someone in the community to fix the instrument, which leads her to discover her grandfather's legacy as a mariachi.
1st - 3rd
Written by Mary and Rich Chamberlin
On market day, Mama Panya's son Adika invites everyone he sees to a pancake dinner. How will Mama...
K - 5th
Written by Liz Flanagan
Meet a cunning princess who is known for her brains, not her beauty. Dara uses her talent as an engineer to foil a wicked plot and save her husband in this Cambodian traditional tale.
K - 6th
Written by Mary Finch
A brave young princess sets out on a dangerous adventure to rescue both her mother and her baby son in this traditional tale from Brazil.
K - 6th
Written by Xanthe Gresham Knight
Young Eliza and her eleven brothers’ lives are transformed when a plague ravages the Kingdom of...
K - 5th
Written by Lari Don
When a hungry young wolf spots a tasty-looking animal in the field above the river, he thinks he...
K - 4th
Written by Dan Santat
Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's poignant tale follows Humpty Dumpty, an avid bird watcher whose...
Pre-K - 3rd
Written by Ken Mochizuki
For a young Japanese-American boy sent to an internment camp during World War II, baseball becomes a way to escape his unhappy surroundings.
K - 6th
Written by Megan McCarthy
It's the 1920s and the Fleer Corporation is trying to create a new kind of gum, but they aren’t...
