A collection of 26 American similes--one for each letter of the alphabet--including notes on the origins and meanings of each.

"After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--

Trying to be detectives, Mary Lou and her friends imagine that terrible crimes are being committed when Leroy, the worst kid who ever lived on Eighth Avenue, returns to the house next door.

Lonely Bones, the Mudheads' dog, disguises himself as a second-grader and spends an adventurous day at school.

An amateur horror show scares no one except its creators until a frightful actor appears on the scene.

Presents the photographs taken by William Henry Jackson from 1869 to 1893, discussing his life and how his work captured and introduced the American West to the public.

Fifteen-year-old Private John Griffith Allen, A confederate soldier from South Carolina, survives the Battle of Gettysburg only to be captured and become a prisoner of war. While a prisoner, John Allen switches sides and is sent to a remote Fort in the Dakota Territory where his prejudices are challenged and he is forced to reconsider what it means to be a hero.