New Releases by Jean Lee Latham

When his family is moving, Skipper the dog misses a ride in both the truck and the car, and must find his family. A story to be read with children supplying the noise on the dog''s barking.

Marie helps the Nutcracker defeat the Mouse king in this retelling of the Christmas fairy tale by Hoffmann.

When his family is moving, Skipper the dog misses a ride in both the truck and the car, and must find his family. A story to be read aloud with children supplying the noise of the dog''s barking.

A squeaking gate causes a dog, a bird, and a cat all to make noise which disturbs a man and his wife. A story to be real aloud with children providing the noises such as the squeak of the gate, the bark of the dog, or the man''s snoring.

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship''s captain and wrote "The American Practical Navigator."

A biography of the man who rose from debt to amass a small fortune, and became the driving force behind the successful laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

A fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Jefferson, the American actor.

In 1607, a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia.

Young adult biography of Maury, US naval officer and oceanographer from Virginia who resigned his position when Virginia seceeded and became Commander of the Confederate States Navy and spokesperson for the Southern cause in England.

At the height of a rebellion in a South American country, a young woman is left in the family compound just miles from a the site of a fierce battle. Her only companion is Gina, a long-term family servant. Nearly a month earlier, they heard someone knocking on the gate and found a wounded soldier there. They''ve been nursing him since, and it appears that his sight is nearly restored, but he still can''t remember who he is or what cause he supported.