Emily Arnold McCully
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover the nineteenth-century woman who became one of America’s first investigative journalists in this “lively” biography (Booklist, starred review).
A YALSA-ALA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell became widely known for her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust—a complicated business...
A YALSA-ALA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell became widely known for her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust—a complicated business...
3) Picnic
Author
Language
English
Description
A little mouse gets lost on the way to a family picnic. More words and larger illustrations have been added since Picnic was first published in 1984.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940, in the south of France, four boys decided to explore a deep hole in the ground, hoping for buried treasure. After squeezing through a narrow tunnel, they entered a cave and saw more than 2000 images of cows, bulls, bison, horses and reindeer, all painted nearly 17,000 years ago on the walls of the cave.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Caroline Herschel (1750 1848) was not only one of the greatest astronomers who ever lived but also the first woman to be paid for her scientific work. Born the youngest daughter of a poor family in Hanover, Germany, she was scarred from smallpox, stunted from typhus, and used by her parents as a scullery maid. But when her favorite brother, William, left for England, he took her with him. The siblings shared a passion for stars, and together they...
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
13) 3, 2, 1, go!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.
14) Little ducks go
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
12 unnumbered pages : colored illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mother Duck is on the run trying to keep her ducklings safe.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
17) Grandmas at bat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.
20) School
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.