When the path to eight-year-old Allison's Catholic school goes through hostile Protestant territory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Allison finds she is not alone in her loathing of the situation.

When two gutsy moms ventured inside Nettelhorst, their neighborhood's underutilized and struggling public elementary school, the new principal asked what it would take for them to enroll their children. Stunned by her candor, they returned the next day armed with an extensive wish list. The principal read their list and said "Well, let's get started, girls! It's going to be a busy year . . . " How to Walk to School is the story—from the highs to the lows—of motivated neighborhood parents galvanizing and then organizing an entire community to take a leap of faith, transforming a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best, virtually overnight. The fate of public education is not beyond our control. In How to Walk to School, Susan Kurland, Nettelhorst's new and entrepreneurial principal, and Jacqueline Edelberg, the neighborhood mom, provide an accessible and honest blueprint for reclaiming the great public schools our children deserve. Check out www.howtowalktoschool.com for more information.

Ruby's imagination turns everyday objects, like a house for sale and a tabby cat, into frightening surprises on her walk to school with her Mum.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

In 1947, nineteen-year-old Barbara Sizemore graduated from Northwestern University and left a job at Woolworth's to become a substitute classroom teacher on Chicago's South Side. Twenty-six years later, she was appointed superintendent of the Washington, DC, school system--the first African American woman to hold such a position in a major city. In 1992, she was appointed dean of the School of Education at DePaul University in Chicago, after a truly exceptional career in education that spanned more than five decades. ... Walking in Circles: The Black Struggle for School Reform, told in Sizemore's own voice, is at once an autobiography, a history of educational activism, and a presentation of experiences, perspectives and insights. The book offers a detailed overview of an extraordinary person committed to finding a way to offer quality education to the Black children growing up in America's cities. --Publisher description.

Eva feels that rules are getting in the way of her fun at school. Will she discover that classrooms have rules for a reason?

"Tom and his mom usually drive to school, but they always get stuck in traffic. Follow his story and find out what happens when Tom walks to school, and why walking is so much better for our planet-and ourselves!"--