Thomson, Sarah L

Adapts for young readers Greg Mortenson's book in which he recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.

A young woman losing her vision rides the subway with her dog in search of emotional healing.

Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, life cycle, and endangered status of tigers.

Provides information about whales, describing their size, how they breathe, how they catch their food, their behaviors, and efforts to protect them.

Mella, a young girl trained as a dragon keeper, learns that the legends of old are true when she is entrusted with carrying a dragon's egg to the fabled Hatching Grounds, a dangerous journey on which she is assisted by a knight's squire.

A photo-illustrated celebration of historic space explorers that presents facts on rocket scientists, animal astronauts, the "Challenger" disaster, and more than twenty individuals including Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, James Lovell, Kalpana Chawla, and Yang Liwei.

Contains brief profiles of great athletes from a wide range of sports, providing information about each one's accomplishments, in simple text with illustrations.

When her father is imprisoned in 1592 England for being Catholic, fourteen-year-old Rosalind disguises herself as a boy and finds an ultimately dangerous job as servant to playwright Christopher Marlowe.