Technically, Olivia is not a girl, even though he was born as a girl. He's transgender. Liv knows he was always meant to be a boy. But at Bankridge Middle School, the dress code means he can't wear pants. Only skirts. So Operation: Pants Project begins! To Liv, this isn't just a mission to change the policy. It's a mission to change his life. And that's a pretty big deal.

Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.

Nere has never understood why she's more comfortable and confident swimming with the dolphins that her mother studies than she is hanging out with her classmates on land, but everything falls into place when Nere learns that shis is one of a group of kids who--unbeknownst to them--have been genetically altered to survive in the ocean. These products of "The Neptune Project" are given a mission to build a better future under the sea, safe from the...

Accompanying her father on a wooly mammoth excavation in the Arctic, thirteen-year-old Maya discovers something hidden in the ice that will change her life forever.

"On July 23, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin stepped from their spacecraft onto the alien soil of the Moon--Earth's sister world. Using archival images and explanatory text, this riveting title guides the reader through NASA's Apollo space program, including the tragic deaths of an entire flight crew and Apollo's ultimate triumph--the first lunar landing in 1969. Maps of the moon show where Apollo 11's lunar lander Eagle landed and the...

Recounts the history of the crash program that resulted in the development of the atomic bomb.

Describes the events and people surrounding the creation of the atomic bomb, and examines the effects of its use during World War II.

Profiles the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and why you wouldn't have wanted to work on it!