Presents the eighteenth-century social satire of a gentle and kind man who is thrashed by fate and his fellow man yet continues to believe that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." Includes background information, explanatory notes, author chronology, and critical analysis.

Relates in rhyme what children eat in countries around the world.

With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature--

A year-long journey in the world of Ling Ling, a young girl who lives in Beijing, China. Her personal accounts tell about Chinese culture, including school life, family life, and holidays and festivals.

Although Molly in the United States is far away from the Inuit woman of Baffin Bay and the lonely sailor off the coast of Chile, they all eat breakfast at the same time because they are in the same time zone.

A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.

This book teaches children to manage their thoughts and words without interrupting.

Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he’ll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter’s best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim...