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Mary Kingsley in Africa

by Brown, Don

A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa...

Attaboy, Sam!

by Lowry, Lois & De Groat, Diane

Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastro...

Mary on Horseback

Three Mountain Stories

by Wells, Rosemary & McCarty, Peter

Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical car...

When Willard Met Babe Ruth

by Hall, Donald Herbert & Moser, Barry

A boy meets the young Babe Ruth and along with his family follows the Babe's long and illustrious career.

Grandaddy and Janetta

by Griffith, Helen V. & Stevenson, James

Janetta enjoys her visit to her grandfather, including such highlights as listening to the night insects make music and admiring his cat's new kittens.

No Dogs Allowed

by Cutler, Jane & Pearson, Tracey Campbell

Five-year-old Edward and his older brother Jason find themselves in such wild predicaments as surviving a motorcycle convention and confronting the three-heade...

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

by Namioka, Lensey & Kiefte, Kees de

Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he w...

The Trojan Horse

by Hutton, Warwick

A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.