Do You Really Want a Hamster?Mischievous hamsters (and the narrator) teach a young boy the responsibility and the joys of owning a hamster. Includes "Is this pet right for me?" quiz.

might find its darkness a little too unmitigated

the non-roaring big cats of Central Asia

Each title demonstrates how its era's agents

Nelson Mandela fought to end apartheid and the Dalai Lama attempted to compromise with China over Tibet

–gazes at a distant passing freight train

and key leaders

A history of Roald Amundsen's successful 1911 trip to the South Pole

and this book tells of her life in the wild with her herd

Explains the early breeding by the Nez Perce Native Americans

Early/fluent readers will dig up high-interest fun facts like fossils

Struggling or reluctant readers will laugh and learn as they explore what it might be like to have a pet Velociraptor

the colorful climbing lizards