Ilene Cooper

Bobby is a shy boy until he gets a beagle puppy named Lucy, who helps him to make new friends.

When Lucy the beagle goes to a lake with Bobby and his family, she does not want to go in the water and, instead, has an adventure on her own.

When Mom and Lucy the beagle go to school to deliver Bobby's forgotten lunch, Lucy gets loose.

For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress-even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...

Describes the childhood and youth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, covering the years from his birth through prep school graduation, and includes photographs, family letters, grade reports, and ancedotes.

When Jake goes to kindergarten, a bully teases him about sucking his thumb, but Jake discovers that everyone, even bullies, needs some help being brave.

Lia makes four new friends at summer camp, but when they come to her house in Maple Park, Illinois, at Halloween, she worries that they will discover that she is not so popular in her seventh grade class.

A biography of one of the first leaders of the campaign for women's rights who helped organize the women's suffrage movement.

Details the important archaeological discovery of the ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and discusses efforts to translate them, the battle over their possession, and the people who have figured in their history.