World War II has just ended and money is scarce. Anna needs a new coat and Mother has been promising to get one. But the stores don't...

Amelia Luisa Martinez hates the sight of the map when her father pulls it out to find the way to the next harvest. They are migrant workers and they...

Bulldog wakes up in the morning ready for a big day. He begins by baking a batch of cookies and then heads out to hunt for a...

In the 1930's Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl and struggling families had to pick up all their worldly possessions and strike out to begin their lives again. Told...

When the dust storms roar through Jake and Maggy's farm again and again, the crops stop growing and the family has to sell all their possessions and head west...

Surely the potato blight won’t hurt Esty’s family, her papa being agent for the landowner, right? But the famine in 1840s Ireland cuts deep, and 12 year old Esty...

Kevin, star of Liar, Liar, returns with a cash flow problem this time. His parents have cut off his allowance since the lying episodes and his part time jobs...

Playing games online all day, every day sounds like fun, doesn’t it? But for young people packed into smoky internet cafes in Singapore, Shenzen, and Mumbai, it’s a matter...

Teenager Florrie is outraged and dismayed as she watches the vibrant independent retailers of San Antonio be overwhelmed by the big box stores that make her town look like...

Care to stop and smell the roses? Henry hikes to Fitchburg is a great picture book explanation of Thoreau's message. Henry is a bear and he and...

Let's go shopping! These words mean very different things depending on where you live and shop in the world. If you're in Bangkok, Thailand, you might want to go...

Today there are over 300 million people living in the United States. That's a really big number for a child to try to grasp but if you shrink that...

Lila and her family live in a village in Kenya where the sun is shining and shining and shining and the rain does not come. This drought is making...

In 2004 the Nobel Peace Prize was given to Wangari Maathai, a woman from Kenya whose life had created such opportunities and self-sufficiency for so many people in her...

Everyone goes to the market. Come along as we visit marketplaces in Ecuador, Nepal, Ireland, Uganda, Morocco and the Fulton Fish Market in New York City, USA. The merchandise...

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Moritz knows he’s lucky to work at the printers – Berlin in 1918 is a place of hunger and desperation. Older brother Hans is now fighting on the Western...

Set in the 1800’s, Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep tells the tale of a young girl waiting for her father to return from a year long journey to China for...

Look at the power of a dream, determination and one brown hen. This is Ghana and life is hard for Kojo and his mother. They survive by collecting firewood...

For hundreds of years the Maasai people "have moved their herds of cattle and goats across thousands of miles in Kenya and Tanzania." Now their lands are over-grazed and...