A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees' best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931
Covers a variety of facts on lightning, including how it is formed, the different types of lightning, what thunder is and its relationship to lightning, safety measures, etc.
Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad
An introduction to the domesticated silkworm moth, raised on farms in Japan and elsewhere for the sake of the silk thread out of which its cocoons are constructed.
See the blue water. Hear the waves crash. Smell the suntan lotion. Touch a soft feather. Taste the salty seawater. The seashore stimulates all of our five senses in exciting ways. This book is a wonde
Introduces different movements in art, including naturalism, romanticism, pointillism, and photorealism, discussing when each movement was popular, its important characteristics, and famous painters w
Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of adjectives, revealing tips and tricks for cleverly describing things, ideas, and living beings. Reprint.
Describes how coyote and five other animals, tired of winter, were able to steal summer from Old Woman, but when summer breaks out and they are finally caught, coyote and Old Woman agree to split summ
Here is an intimate look at a time when you could turn an idea into a successful publishing house and stay independent. Tenacity Well Directed is Harry Lerner's story, about a publishing generation we
Look out for the Allosaurus! Would you like to see what happens during a year in the world of dinosaurs? Then come spend the next twelve months in the Jurassic period. Check out eight action-packed sc
Relates the experience of Paul Jennings, a slave who belonged to President Madison, as he stayed by the side of Dolley Madison as British soldiers marched toward Washington, D.C.
Relates how, in 1865, a boy named Willie McLean watched as General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War.
