James Ransome

Tom enjoys the thrill of riding his brand new bicycle, and then shares it with a friend.

A student wonders why her teacher has chosen to teach in her school for so long, and highlights all the special things her teacher does for her class.

When short, round Gunner, the third-string quarterback, finally gets to play in a big game, everyone treats him like a hero.

Celebrates the first widely seen integrated jazz performance: the debut of the Benny Goodman quartet with Teddy Wilson in 1936 Chicago.

A New York Harbor tugboat captain and his family take the tug up the Hudson River to pick up and tow the barge carrying the enormous Christmas tree that will be displayed at Rockefeller Center.

A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.

The young man known as Teach secretly learned to read, write, and use numbers growing up alongside the master's son. And although on this Southern plantation these are skills he can never flaunt, Teach doesn't keep them to himself: In the course of a week, he'll teach little ones the alphabet in the corner stall of a stable and hold a moonlit session where men scratch letters in the dirt. He'll decipher a discarded letter bearing news of Yankee soldiers...

"The story of the National Basketball Association from its origins through the major events and players who made basketball what it is today"-- Provided by publisher.

Short biography of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George, a mixed race violinist who would play for the King and Queen of France.

"This clever and informative picture book introduces young readers to the world of good and bad bacteria--germs!"-- Provided by publisher.