It takes a tragedy to mend the fraying family bonds between Ma Charles and her half sister, Miss Trotter. They have not spoken in years. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern head to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and their great-grandmother, Ma Charles.

Publisher Annotation: A brave tractor farms for freedom in a story inspired by women who acted with courage and strength in American factories and on British farms during World War II.

From breakfast to bedtime, a young girl imagines being different women who made history, and ends the day empowered to be herself. Includes brief biographical information about the women cited.

In this celebration of motherhood, a mama can be many things-from a captain of adventures to a quiet supporter-but above all else, she will always be mama. She is mama, she is many things. Mama is there for whatever life brings.

An old woman needs apples to bake an apple cake and has none. She keeps exchanging items in her basket and eventually gets the apples she needs.

From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike comes the first novel in the young adult fantasy Alosha Trilogy, featuring a teenager discovering her true identity and potential destiny. Every young girl dreams that she's secretly a princess of a far-off land and that someday her true parents will come to claim her and usher her into a life of luxury, a fabulous existence where she might even have magical powers and be swept off her feet...

Publisher Annotation: In the village of Huanan, in medieval China, the deity that rules is the Great Huli Jing. Though twelve-year-old Li Jing's name is a different character entirely from the Huli Jing, the sound is close enough to provide constant teasing-but maybe is also a source of greater destiny and power. Jing's life isn't easy. Her father is a poor tea farmer, and her family has come to the conclusion that in order for everyone to survive,...

Did you ever wonder how a home is built? Who thinks of the house first? Who can use the big cement mixers in their job? Follow a house - a special house - as it goes from idea to becoming someone's very own home. The House that She Built educates young readers about all the people and skills that go into building a home. One by one, we learn about: the architect, framer, roofer, plumber, interior designer, electrician and many more workers at a construction...

Publisher Annotation: This is the story of Sundar Paliwal, from a small Indian village ruled by ancient customs. As he grows to be a man, Sundar suffers much heartbreak and decides it is time for change to come to his village. Sundar is determined to live in a place where girls are valued as much as boys and where the land is not devastated by irresponsible mining. Sundar's plan? To celebrate the birth of every girl with the planting of 111 trees....