Traces the life of Modoc from hauling teak in India, a shipwreck, to a Circus in Germany. The author owned the elephant for the last 20 years of his life. It is a story of friendship, separation, and reunion.
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Traces the life of Modoc from hauling teak in India, a shipwreck, to a Circus in Germany. The author owned the elephant for the last 20 years of his life. It is a story of friendship, separation, and reunion.

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Profiles the United States president who grew up during the Civil War and brought the nation into the first World War, yet was called the “president of peace.”
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Profiles the United States president who grew up during the Civil War and brought the nation into the first World War, yet was called the “president of peace.”

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Tally lives in a futuristic society that teaches its citizens to beleive that they are ugly until age 16 when they will have an operation that will change them into ‘pretties.’ Shay, a friend of Tally’s, is found missing and Tally is told to find her or stay ugly. Meet the Smoke, Dr. Cable, and David. When you finish reading this book be sure to discuss it with someone else. You need to talk about your values and compare them to the values exhibited in the novel.
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Tally lives in a futuristic society that teaches its citizens to beleive that they are ugly until age 16 when they will have an operation that will change them into ‘pretties.’ Shay, a friend of Tally’s, is found missing and Tally is told to find her or stay ugly. Meet the Smoke, Dr. Cable, and David. When you finish reading this book be sure to discuss it with someone else. You need to talk about your values and compare them to the values exhibited in the novel.

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Retraces the course of the space mission that landed “an actual man on the actual moon.” Told from the view of the 17,000 behind-the-scenes workers at Kennedy Space center, the employees who built the lunar module, the designers and seamstresses and other low-profile contirbutors to this historic flight.
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Retraces the course of the space mission that landed “an actual man on the actual moon.” Told from the view of the 17,000 behind-the-scenes workers at Kennedy Space center, the employees who built the lunar module, the designers and seamstresses and other low-profile contirbutors to this historic flight.

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Fifty-three men and women discuss the issue of forgiveness and try to hlep the author determine if he made the right choice when a Nazi officer confessed his sins to Wiesnthal and asked for his forgiveness.
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Fifty-three men and women discuss the issue of forgiveness and try to help the author determine if he made the right choice when a Nazi officer confessed his sins to Wiesenthal and asked for his forgiveness

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