Takes a look at the fifty-two-mile race course that was set up and run by six men in the winter of 1895, in order to demonstrate and promote the benefits of their newly created mode of transporation,
Mary Anning loved to scour the shores of Lyme Regis, England, where she was born in 1799, for stone sea lilies and shells. Her father had taught her how to use the tools with which she dug into the s
Coming into Ellis Island from Russia, Rachel and her family are ready to start a new life in America, so when cousin Grisha is singled out by an inspector, Rachel has to think quickly and uses an old
A dog's account of one of the most extraordinary expeditions of all time."Dog and man can fit together like no others do. Lewis and I had that fit....How did we get that close? I think the wilderness
If not for Seth Doan, the city of Cleveland wouldn’t exist today... In 1798, Cleveland, Ohio, was in danger of being wiped out by a malaria epidemic. Based on fact, this book tells the remarkable stor
Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children, and the youngest of 10 sons. To help out with the family, he was put to work when he was 10 years old in his father's candle and soap-making shop. Ben