New Releases by Jennifer Armstrong

Thirteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901. Part of the "Dear Mr. President" series. Photos & maps.

Thinking he is dreaming, Pierre, a lazy, foolish man, shows no fear as he performs many amazing and dangerous circus acts.

While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.

Meet Gretel Muller, a young German girl growing up in Galveston, Texas in 1855. Gretel dreams of living in a fairy-tale castle by the sea, but instead spends her days working with her short-tempered sisters in their mother''s hat shop. When a rich resident announces that she wants a young German girl to come stay with her, Gretel sees her opportunity. But how will she ever get a chance when everyone thinks she''s a lazy and foolish girl?

Illustrated in full color. Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path!

A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.

Jailed by an evil foe, a king receives invaluable help from a crow that regularly brings him the latest news.

In 1858, Emily MacKenzie doesn''t give much thought to the growing tensions between the North and South until a southern family comes to the Wild Rose Inn with their slave.

When Laura meets a Yale University student she is introduced to the adventures and freedoms the new twentieth century will offer, a stark contrast to the traditional ways her parents follow.

In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

Illus. in full color. When Chin Yu Min''s wealthy husband drowns, her life of idleness comes to an end--until she meets a mysterious ginger cat fishing with his long tail. Striking illustrations complement this original folktale of a haughty widow whose life is transformed by friendship.

Explains how to compile records in an efficient way.

Jenny Sawyer does not realize the responsibility she is taking on when she enthusiastically accepts an assignment to babysit a chimp named Pansy.