Jamie Hogan

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.

Tells the story of when naturalist John Muir explored a waterfall in Yosemite Valley, California in 1871.

Over the past several decades, our world has been warming at a faster rate than ever before. Winters are shorter. Sea levels have risen. Territories of predators and prey have shifted. To survive in this new environment, animals everywhere have had to adapt, or face extinction. Complemented by Jamie Hogan's rich collage illustrations, A Warmer World offers young readers a clear-eyed look at the effects of climate change on animals around the world....

From tongue-in-cheek sonnets to lyrical free verse, Susan Blackaby's poems explore the many kinds of homes animals make for themselves.

"At 102-years-old, Virginia Oliver, or "The Lobster Lady," is the oldest person hauling lobster in Maine and possibly the world ; and she still remembers life as a little girl--working along the rocky coast, enjoying time well spent with family"--