Akron Public Library

Surveys the life of Benjamin Franklin, highlighting his work as an inventor and statesman.

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.

This book introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep.

After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its Jurassic time period.

A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left him after her death.

In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.

Provides information about water, explaining what it is, tracing the water cycle, and discussing water use and quality. Includes a related activity that demonstrates the different forms that water can take.

Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.

When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down.