Social Studies

Christopher Ludwick is a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking the best gingerbread in Philadelphia. No one goes hungry if he can help it--"Not in my America!" he says. When cries of "Revolution!" begin, Christopher marches off to feed General George Washington and his hungry troops. But Washington never expects his favorite baker to sneak off on a risky secret mission across enemy lines...

For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.

A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body!

This edition of Mountains Beyond Mountains by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder, adapted by Michael French, is the inspiring account of Paul Farmer, who while in medical school found his calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need it most.