communities

Compares and contrasts the everyday lives of people around the globe.

Looks at why rules and laws are important to every community, exploring some of the laws that help keep people safe as well as those that protect property and rights.

Demonstrates how individual people, places, and things combine to form a community. It allows children to view the works in segments and then experience the wonderment and value of the community as a whole.

Twelve-year-old Nella Sabatini's life is changing too soon, too fast. The only person who might understand how Nella feels is Angela, but the two of them have gone from being "secret sisters" to not talking at all. Then Angela's idolized big brother makes a terrible, fatal mistake, one that tears apart their tight-knit community and plunges his family into a whirlwind of harsh publicity and judgment. In the midst of this controversy, Nella is faced with a series of startling revelations about her parents, friends, and neighborhood.

Text and illustrations explore how jobs within a community have changed over the years.

A collection of poems revives the long lost community of Seneca Village.

Marcela uses simple statements to show readers the places in the town where she lives, and what people do at them.

When tree climbing is banned at her townhouse complex, Bree assumes a new role in her community: activist and advocate.