Joan Holub

A biography of the famous explorer, Marco Polo.

In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!

A group of ants gets help from fireflies while trying to find their way home after a day of picnicking.

An illustrated, easy-to-read retelling of the Greek myth of Pandora, whose curiosity leads her to disobey her mother and open a mysterious box.

"Iris is the most colorful goddess girl at Mount Olympus Academy. In fact, her hair and delicate wings can change color according to her mood! When Principal Zeus entrusts her with the job of fetching some magic water, Iris is tickled pink-- until she realizes she'll have to get the water from the gray, gloomy River Styx in the Underworld! And when Iris figures out how to create magical rainbow slides that will allow her to travel from Mount Olympus...

Athena learns that she is a goddess when she is summoned to Mount Olympus by her father, Zeus, and she must quickly adjust to her new status, make friends with the other godboys and goddessgirls, and catch up with all the studies she missed while attending mortal school.

Persephone enlists the help of Athena to convince the powerful Zeus to give her the gift of good luck so she can help her favorite flowers grow big and strong.

"Everyone sees Artemis, goddess of the hunt, as the bravest goddess girl at Mount Olympus Academy. What her classmates and best friends don't realize is that sometimes she isn't as courageous as she seems. And, when Orion--a foreign exchange student from Earth--enters the picture, she is even more nervous than usual! Can Artemis prove to her friends, and herself, that she can live up to her name?"

When the school principal bakes a gingerbread kid cookie and brings it to school for lunch, the gingerbread kid winks and hurriedly jumps off the principal's desk in this story that puts a silly twist on the classic tale. Full-color illustrations.

"Aphrodite, goddess girl of love, must deal with jealousy after giving Athena a makeover. It doesn't seem fair that the god boys pay more attention to her friend when Aphrodite is supposed to be destined for love! She also copes with a crush from an unlikely source--the nerdy Hephaestus (god of the smith)--and learns that love comes in many forms"--