"Originally told on-stage and adapted here for the page, these 36 fascinating, unique, and celebratory stories of migration, culture shock, family, and life come from well-known voices including Sonia Manzano, Alexander Chee, Andrae Aciman, Laura Gaomez,Aparna Nancherla as well as regular people hailing from every corner of the world. The past and present of immigration in the United States springs to life in this anthology of stories compiled and...

A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.

Publisher Annotation: Lucy and Andy have some extra space in the cave now the humans have moved out. But they do miss hanging with Sasha and Tommy. Luckily, their new friends live right around the ice block, close enough to form the first-ever explorer's club! These adventurers are on the hunt. Their first big discovery: dinosaur bones! Jeffrey Brown masterfully blends facts with funny in this graphic novel series. Includes theories about how Neanderthals...

Two friends do everything together. But when Bird and her family go away, Bunny is left all alone. This illustrated story helps young readers understand that even when a best friend moves away, there are new friends to be made. Book features: Big Words and Big Questions.

"Ahoy! When Captain Salty Bones invites Mickey and the gang to Pirate Beach for a treasure hunt, Funny turns into a pirate ship for Mickey's biggest treasure hunt ever in this Level Pre-1 reader. But when Mickey and the gang arrive on Pirate Beach, they are not alone. The weasels want to treasure hunt, too! Who will find the coveted treasure chest first?"--Amazon.com.

"Inspired by a real-life 2015 discovery by a farmer in Michigan, this is a story about a boy named Caden who digs up a prehistoric woolly mammoth skeleton in his backyard. A recent heavy rain has exposed a bit of something in the yard, which Caden notices and resolves to dig up. He attempts to enlist the help of the adults in his life, who humorously dismiss his discovery. His classroom teacher jokes, "If you had found one of those, I'd eat my hat."...

"Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle...

Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.

"In their tremendous PoemJazz collaboration, Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood establish a wholly simpatico artistic partnership. On every track, Hobgood improvised every note in the studio, concurrent with Pinsky's readings. Pinsky proves himself an equally adept improviser. His are not dramatic interpretations of the poems but musica ones, the focus on cadence and harmony with Hobgood." -- Christopher Louden, from back cover.