This is a picture book about immigration. Raising important identity issues like “Where did we come from?” and “Who are we?” This Is Me is as delightful as it is important, sure to stimulate dinner table conversation.

Maurice the mouse befriends a camel in his travels to Morocco and learns the true meaning of friendship.

In the sixth book of this series, friendship and charity are displayed among Maurice, an elephant, and an anteater in the snow-covered forest of Bavaria. This story underscores the gift that comes from doing for others.

12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not...

In the eighth book of the series, the adventure is an enchanting tale of friendship set on the shores of the Danube River. Based on a pre-Confucius proverb, Maurice's journey with a band of gypsies demonstrates that it is more valuable to teach something to someone than simply give a handout.

"After noticing that A.J. and his friends' geography knowledge could use some work, Mr. Cooper invites to class just the person to help. Globetrotter Mrs. Barr speaks seven languages and has visited nearly two hundred countries! But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere she goes? And why does she open a window whenever she walks into a room? Perhaps Mrs. Barr has something to hide"--Provided by publisher.

"The Robinsons--Will, his two teenage sisters, and their parents--are members of a colonist group who had been traveling across the galaxy to establish a new home, only to have had their ship attached and stranded on an alien planet. Just when they had finally managed to get off-world, the Robinsons were thrown off course yet again and were sent drifting toward an unknown location. Now, six months later, the Robinsons are stuck on an inhospitable...