Through riveting narrative and eyewitness stories, young readers learn what it's like to be caught in a monster tornado. Captivating first-person accounts and news reports detail survivors' experiences of the most destructive tornadoes ever to occur in the United States. And thrill-seekers' reports [...]

In the first chapter of "Volcano!", readers are taken to Iceland to experience the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull through lively narrative and compelling first-person accounts. Reader will then experience eyewitness accounts of the Volcano Paricutin, which allow us to follow along from the first crack[...]

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? It's true. The shy Virginia statesman refused at first, but then went on to author one of our nation's most important and inspiring documents. The third U.S. president, Jefferson was also an archi[...]