Up Close: Rachel Carson

By Ellen Levine

Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her award-winning and controversial book Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of human...

The Describer s dictionary

By David Grambs

Freedom's children

By Ellen Levine

Southern blacks who were young and involved in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s describe their experiences.

Rachel Carson

By Ellen Levine

Discusses author and marine biologist Rachel Carson's efforts to protect the environment, from her childhood nature outings through the impact of her 1962 book, "Silent Spring."

Catch a Tiger by the Toe

By Ellen Levine, Ellen S. Levine

In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the...

Freedom's Children

By Ellen Levine, Ellen S. Levine

In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-t...

Describer s Dictionary

By David Grambs, Ellen S. Levine

So You Think You Can Spell?

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A cornucopia of spelling challenges—from the deceptively simple to the truly vexing—for good, better, and exceptional spellers (or those who want to be).So You Think You Can Spell? is a handy way t...

So You Think You Can Spell?

By David Grambs

A cornucopia of spelling challenges—from the deceptively simple to the truly vexing—for good, better, and exceptional spellers (or those who want to be).So You Think You Can Spell? is a...

So You Think You Can Spell

By David L. Grambs, Ellen S. Levine