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1-22 of 22 results for "perseverance"

A Balloon for Isabel

Written by Deborah Underwood

A porcupine on a mission, Isabel wants a balloon at her graduation just like her classmates will...

Pre-K - 2nd

Cloudette

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

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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

Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

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

Marching With Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

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

Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

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

Imani's Moon

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

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai

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

The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Written by Peter Sis

This book tells the story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of the classic children’s book The...

K - 3rd

Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super Soaking Stream of Inventions

Written by Chris Barton

As a young boy, Lonnie was always building things, from bamboo shooters to rockets—he even built...

2nd - 5th

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

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

The Youngest Marcher

Written by Cynthia Levinson

Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama,...

K - 5th

Ron's Big Mission

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

Finding the Music

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

Mama Panya's Pancakes

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

Dara's Clever Trap

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

Princess of the Springs

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

Wild Swans

Written by Xanthe Gresham Knight

Young Eliza and her eleven brothers’ lives are transformed when a plague ravages the Kingdom of...

K - 5th

The Hungry Wolf

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

After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again)

Written by Dan Santat

Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's poignant tale follows Humpty Dumpty, an avid bird watcher whose...

Pre-K - 3rd

Baseball Saved Us

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

Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum

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...

Pre-K - 3rd

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