"Min wants to be in Ann's show, and after building a crane to remove the tree that has fallen on the stage, she gets her chance."--

Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClures Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century, her...

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take Pip and her friends trick-or-treating on Halloween.

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen,...

"A rhinoceros tours Europe in the mid-18th century and becomes a sensation--based on a true story"--

"Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and the first woman to be paid as a scientist."--

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.

"A biography of Mary Wilkins Ellis, a woman pilot who flew planes for Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II and ran an airport on the Isle of Wight"--

"A timid little mouse discovers the thrill of sledding in the first snow of the winter." --