Akron Public Library

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy used the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.

Explores scientists' efforts to study the ancient bodies revealed by the modern receding of glaciers around the world and examines how these studies reveal more about the Earth as it was thousands of years ago. Includes full-color photographs and further reading sources.