Jane Kurtz

Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.

Meet Mr. Geo, everybody's favorite geography teacher! He loves to explore new places. Today he's visiting Louisiana, the Pelican State.

"Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the Bone Wars began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and trying to find the most important never-before-seen discoveries."--...

Having spent her life on the road with her family, young Jupiter feels out of place when her family rents a house for the summer and takes in an adopted cousin from Ethiopia who hatches a plan to return home.

"An exploration of different types of animal poo and what the zoo uses it for"--

On a visit to the zoo, a little boy imagines what it would be like to be various animals, such as a hippopotamus or a penguin, and listens as his mother explains how all parents keep their young ones safe.

A rhyming, illustrated story about how Columbus found America--along with the pumpkins that we grow and bake into pies today.