Napoli, Donna Jo

During World War II, Roberto and his best friend are abducted by German Soldiers from a small town outside of Venice--despite the fact that Italy and Germany are allies--and taken to a work camp in Munich. The horrors they experience change Roberto's outlook from self-preservation to guarded activism, to following his escape, outright sabotage. A gripping come-of-age novelabout the human costs of war.

The Little Angel of Friendship watches over Patricia, a nine-year-old deaf girl, as she moves from the family farm to the city and tries to make friends with hearing people.

A little Angel of Freedom hopes to earn her wings by helping Simone understand the value of freedom, so that she will stop capturing and imprisoning animals.

One day when Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life.

Wangari Maathai, known as Mama Miti, mother of trees, shares her wisdom with other women by advising them to plant trees native to Kenya to solve their many problems.

Presents illustrated retellings of classic Greek myths, sharing the stories of Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Helen of Troy, Perseus, and Medusa, with sidebars for each god, goddess, hero, and monster that link the tales to constellations, history, geography, and culture, and including profiles, a family tree, and other resources.

When the rest of the ducks turn on her little duckling, Ugly, because he isn't like them, Mother Duck sadly leaves him behind in order to protect her other children. With the help of some new friends, Ugly makes his way alone, but he doesn't know where he's going or what he's looking for.

Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.

Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.

Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.