Central Kansas Library System

Miranda Regent can't believe she's one of six kids training for the world's first-ever mission to Mars, but when the training base is viciously attacked, it looks like Miranda was the intended target.

Presents the life of John Quincy Adams, including his childhood, education, employment, and political career.

"When eleven-year-old Chiyo Tamura is sent from her home in a small Japanese mountain village to a girls' school in the city of Tsuchiura, she never imagines that she will soon be in Tokyo helping to welcome more than twelve thousand Friendship Dolls from America--including Emily Grace, a gift to her own school. Nor could she dream that she'd have an important role in the crafting of Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight Japanese dolls to be sent to America...

"A highly-designed and illustrated (including graphic novel panels) overview of the truths and lies about the attack on Pearl Harbor"--

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Follow the soldiers and politicians through the course of this awful day, which marked the United States' entrance into World War II.

Text and photographs provide information about the experiences of Hispanics in the U.S. and Canada, discussing the reasons why people left Spain and Latin America, their journeys to North America, early settlements, neighborhoods, culture and traditions, fiestas, and other topics.