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Pictures of the White House
Catherine O. Grace

The White House: An Illustrated History

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Created in conjunction with the White House Historical Society; contemporary and historical photographs chronicle the history and various functions of the presidential mansion.

Margarita Engle

The Wild Book

Product Description: Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. “Think of it as a garden,” she says. Soon Fefa starts to sprinkle words across the pages of her wild book. She lets her words sprout like seedlings, shaky at first, then growing stronger and surer with each new day. And when her family is threatened, it is what Fefa has learned from her wild book that saves them.
Richard Preston

The Wild Trees

Age Level:
YA
Three buddies on spring break climb into a California redwood and discover a new ecosystem atop the trees. Join this group of young scientists in the canopy as they learn safe climbing techniques for the oldest and tallest trees of North America, and encounter new species of plants, animals, and love.
Jeff Kinney

The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book

Readers are introduced to activities and journaling in the style of Greg Heffley’s journal. Even those not familiar with the exploits of the comical journalist will enjoy filling in the pages of this book.
Mary Amato

The Word Eater

Age Level:
Middle Grade
Life is miserable for sixth-grader Lerner Chanse at her new school, where the MPOOE (Most Powerful Ones on Earth) Club ruthlessly rules over the SLUGs (Sorry Losers Under Ground). Then Lerner accidentally discovers that her pet worm Fip eats paper — with startling results. When he eats a word, that item simply disappears from the world, forever. Now that Lerner knows about Fip’s magic, she has some extraordinary powers of her own. Lerner soon discovers that extraordinary power brings extraordinary responsibility.

The Work of a Generation

Pop quiz: What large public school system “grows” its kids the most? Here’s a hint: In 1987, then-U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennet called it the “worst” school system in the country.