Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s....

As a hurricane gathered in the Caribbean, blue skies covered Galveston, Texas. Scientists knew a storm was coming. But none of them were able to prepare Galveston for the force of the hurricane that hit on September 8, 1900....

The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions of people almost instantaneously....

ABOUT WHERE IS THE KREMLIN? Which of these facts are true? It is a huge fort with twenty towers in the center of Moscow It houses priceless jewels that once belonged to Russian czars It has been attacked many times over its seven-hundred-year history—and yet still stands All of the above!...

By piecing together scraps of cloth with scraps of information gathered from the other slaves, Clara fashions a map so secret that even the master won\"t suspect....

EARLY MORNING ON APRIL 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her glorious maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Thus the ship declared to be unsinkable was lost in one of the most infamous tragedies in history....

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting \"useless\" experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle....

Book Description Apples, ho! When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can\'t bear to leave his precious apple trees behind. Or his peaches, plums, grapes, cherries, and pears. Oh, and he takes his family along too.But the trail is cruel -- first there\'s a river to cross that\'s wider than Texas......

Book Description Danger Close To Home Papa is in danger for helping to rescue a free-state settler who was unjustly arrested by Kansas\'s proslavery sheriff. He has gone into hiding, and Momma and the Keller children are alone in their remote cabin while marauding border ruffians are roaming the countryside, looking for livestock to steal....