MITCHELL LANE PUBLISHERS

Art Profiles For Kids - NEW TITLES

A beautiful, full-color introduction to the art masters, their work, and the times in which they lived.

Biography From Ancient Civilizations - NEW TITLES

Biography From Ancient Civilizations is the perfect classroom supplement for upper elementary through middle school grades where world history and ancient civilizations is part of the social studies curriculum. Each book gives a complete overview of the person's life along with a snapshot of the times in which they lived. Told like a novel, each book is fast-moving and filled with information.

Blue Banner Biographies - NEW TITLES

Written especially for young adults, Blue Banner Biographies feature the lives of contemporary people kids want to read about. Following on the heels of the popular Real Life Reader Biographies, Blue Banner Biographies incorporate the best of the Real-Life Readers, including the easy-to-read pull-quotes, but are designed in full-color.

Building America

Building America tells the story of the early years in which America struggled to become an independent nation. Highlighting colonial times, Building America, presents a complete overview including daily life, politics, religion, general society, and important leadership figures. Designed in full color, each book details a vital piece of American History

Classic Storytellers - NEW TITLES

Classic Storytellers details the lives of some of the beloved authors who have written popular books for middle grade readers. Each book contains 10,000 words and highlights the history, culture, and economic times of the era in which the author lived.

Clay Aiken: From Second Place to the Top of the Charts

When Clay Aiken took a one-in-a-million shot at music stardom by qualifying for and then nearly winning the American Idol contest in the second season, he captured America's heart. Celebrity biographer Kathleen Tracy takes you behind the scenes of one of America's most popular television shows to learn what Clay actually went through to achieve his success.

Extreme Sports - NEW TITLES

Stories from some of the big names in Extreme Sports, these books are written from personal interviews. Young readers will delight in these action-packed, easy-to-read tales about dangerous and exciting sports.

Famous People of Asian Ancestry

Famous People of Asian Ancestry features twenty-six prominent Asian Americans featured in full-length, short biographies, fully illustrated with black & white personal photographs. These lively and entertaining stories bring to life the Asian American experience in the twentieth century.

Famous People of Hispanic Heritage

Famous People of Hispanic Heritage is a series featuring authorized biographies of famous, prominent, and up-and coming role models for young adults. The featured role models speak directly to young adults about topics and issues of importance to the Hispanic community.

Gardening For Kids - NEW SERIES

Gardening is a great hobby for children and adults. In this new series, young readers have their very own books with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, and butterfly gardens. These books are filled with beautiful full-color photos showing kids designing, growing, and harvesting their own gardens. Step-by-step instructions for a craft to complement the garden are also given.

Great Achievement Awards

Great Achievement Awards is a Mitchell Lane series written especially for middle school readers, grades 4 through 8. The fast-paced, easy-reading text is illustrated with full-color photographs that help young adults understand the people behind some of our great achievement awards. Jam-packed with information, each book contains 9,000 words.

How To Convince Your Parents You Can... - NEW TITLES

These delightful books will help beginning readers make an informed decision about whether an animal would make an acceptable pet. Not all animals covered are suitable for every family, but the authors help the readers come to the proper conclusion whether they should try to convince their parents they can care for the pet. Kids learn all about each animal, from what to feed it to what to do if the pet gets sick. The inviting full-color design complements the bright photographs, while the cheerful text highlights all the pertinent information.

Latinos in American History

Latinos in American History: The Hispanic Influence in the United States is a series that focuses on the unique contributions Hispanics have made in the United States from the earliest Spanish explorers to the many successful Latinos in contemporary America. Each book provides historical and factual easy-reading stories.

Latinos in Baseball

Latinos in Baseball are non-fictional stories that present the lives of contemporary, Latino baseball players for young readers. Latinos in Baseball are appropriate for all middle school and high school students. They can also be used with ESL students grades 8 and up.

Latinos at Work: Career Role Models for Young Adults

Latinos at Work: Career Role Models for Young Adults is a valuable vocational reference series for libraries serving Hispanic youth. Each book begins with a description of many careers along with education, talent, experience necessary, salary ranges, and outlooks from a Latino perspective.

Legends of Health and Fitness

Legends of Health and Fitness are non-fictionalized stories that present the lives of contemporary health and fitness role models for young adults. Each book begins with a chapter that gives a history and background of the sport or career and ties the sport to health and fitness. Legends of Health and Fitness are appropriate for all middle school and high school students who want to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Masters of Music

Masters of Music: The World's Greatest Composers, combines music, history, and culture with biography. These delightful stories are as entertaining as they are educational. The breezy, easy-reading text is illustrated with full-color period art and historical illustrations that help young adults understand the world's greatest composers. Jam-packed with information, each book contains 10,000 words.

Meet Our New Student... - NEW SERIES

Everywhere across the United States, children from other countries are joining American classrooms. How can their classmates prepare? Learning about the culture, geography, and history of the new student's native country can help smooth transition. Greeting the student with a few words in his or her language, making a traditional craft, and whipping up a well-known dish are all sure to make the child feel welcom. In this vibrant and colorful series, student and teachers can find out how to Meet a New Student from another country and make a new friend.

Money Matters - NEW SERIES

Take the mystery out of money matters. These colorful new books coordinate with math instruction in the elementary grades. Children and young adults read about other kids who pick up tips for saving, budgeting, stock market investing, earning money, and coin collecting.

Monumental Milestones - NEW TITLES

Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times tells stories of some of the most defining events in recent history. The Monumental Milestones series brings history to middle grade readers. Written for readers who will not read 100 pages, this series is jam-packed with all the important information a middle-grade reader will need to do research and short reports.

Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters is a new series written especially for young readers in the elementary grades. These books explain in clear terms the science and hardship of the histories of natural disasters.

No Hands Allowed

No Hands Allowed: Soccer Stars are great stories about professional soccer players that kids want to learn about. Written especially for young readers in the elementary grades, these soccer biographies are short and entertaining reads with plenty of full color action photos. These biographies bring today's soccer stars to life for all young soccer players.

On the Verge of Extinction - NEW TITLES

Young readers gain environmental awareness by reading about at-risk species and treasures of our planet. They’ll find out what scientists are doing about it and what they can do in their own neighborhoods.

Places In Time

Places in Time was developed to provide a simplified guide to the changing names and places of the world. It is not meant to be a comprehensive history resource. It is, instead, a valuable supplemental resource that students can use to quickly locate and learn about many of the cities and countries that have changed names and geographic boundaries through time. This series helps to tie the past to the present by filling in the missing pieces.

Poets and Playwrights

Introducing biographies of 100+ pages for the avid middle school reader. Each book contains 30,000 words for a comprehensive treatment. Poets and Playwrights are challenging biographies to suit the most aggressive book report requirements of middle-school teachers.

Profiles in American History - NEW TITLES

Profiles in American History are the perfect supplement to classroom, school, and public libraries where children and young adults are studying American History. Breezy and engaging narratives that highlight the most important information in the lives of the major persons who shaped the United States of America.

Profiles In Greek & Roman Mythology - NEW TITLES

These attractive full-color books provide an easy-to-read version of the Greek (and/or Roman) stories taught along with an easy-to-understand analysis of its origins and meanings. The series provides a background and history of Ancient Greece (or Rome) and the emerging civilizations that gave rise to these myths.

Real-Life Reader Biographies

Real-Life Reader Biographies are non-fictional stories that present the lives of contemporary role models for young readers. These are the stories of real men and women who, despite many obstacles, followed their dreams.

A Robbie Reader - Contemporary Biography - NEW TITLES

Do you have a Robbie Reader in your school or library? Robbie never liked to read. He was sure he couldn't learn how. After four long years of practice he finally got the hang of it.

Not all children learn to read easily. For those who do, there are millions of books to choose from. For those who take a little longer learning to read, now there are Robbie Readers.

A Robbie Reader - Science Biography

Easy-to-read short biographies of some of the great names in science.

Unlocking the Secrets of Science

Unlocking the Secrets of Science is written especially for young adult readers. This set profiles the achievers of the twentieth century in science, medicine, and technology, many of whom have never been featured in stories for middle grades. The series helps place each significant invention, discovery, or development in historical perspective while exploring the life of the person responsible for each breakthrough.

Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained

Beautifully designed in full color, books in the Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained series highlight the scientific advancements of the 19th Century. Told like a novel, but with complete factual accuracy, each book is a page-turner, keeping your middle-grade reader in suspense chapter after chapter.

Weekend Soccer

Fictional stories of Robbie and Ryan bring youth soccer to life.

What's So Great About...? - NEW TITLES

The series What's So Great About...? brings introductions of the famous people most studied in the early elementary grades. It is told in a lively narration that 2nd and 3rd graders can read by themselves.