Berthoud Community Library District

During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.

A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.

Eerie Elementary seems to be falling down around the students and teachers, so Principal Winik decides the school must be torn down, but Sam, Lucy, and Antonio suspect that somehow this is all part of Orson Eerie's evil plan to live forever--and if it is they must find a way to prevent the demolition.

Mike and his Mighty Mixer concrete truck keep busy doing a variety of jobs, like helping make a new playground for a school, building an airport terminal, paving a new road, and laying the foundation for an apartment complex.

Stanley the elephant, who's very clumsy, accidentally smashes Mouse's house, then promises to try to make a new one.

High school sophomore Princess Mia records in her diary her struggles with geometry, the expectations of being a college student's girlfriend, running for president of the student council, and a potential ecological disaster in her native land, Genovia.

"Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America's musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation's...

"The elves wanted to put on a concert for the fairy queen, but they didn't have any instruments. So they made instruments instead using water glasses, rubber bands, and empty cans. Let's find out more about how they made their concert special." --back cover

Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.