Young Pele: Soccer's First Star
by Lesa Cline-Ransome & James Ransome

The inspiring story of how a poor Brazilian boy--who kicked rocks down roads and dribbled balls made from rags--went on to become the greatest soccer player of all time.

Review
Starred Review, Booklist, September 1, 2007:
"With handsome oil paintings and a stirring story, this picture-book biography will first grab children with its action."
—Hazel Rochman

Sky Boys
by Deborah Hopkinson

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building

Look--on the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, something amazing is happening!  A building, straight and simple as a pencil, is being built in record time.

Travel back to Depression-era Manhattan and join a boy just your age as he watches the world's most famous building take miraculous shape before his eyes.

ISBN 0-375-83610-1
Random House