Kathleen V Kudlinski

An illustrated biography of the founder of the Girl Scouts movement in the United States.

A biography of the scientist and writer whose book "Silent Spring" warned of the dangers of pesticides and launched a popular movement to control their use.

"Examines what is known about weather--storms, predictions, climate, and other characteristics--and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Sumerians to the recent past, believed to be true."--

Describes the physical characteristics of these carnivorous plants, where they live, and how they trap and digest their insect prey.

Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known under his pseudonym "Dr. Seuss") was probably the best-loved and best-selling children's book writer of all time. Returning from Europe by boat in 1936, Seuss amused himself by writing a...

Frank is miserable when his family moves to Hawaii in 1941 until he meets Kenji, a Japanese-American boy who might become his friend. Then Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, raising questions of trust and loyalty in their growing friendship.

In 1906, after the devastating earthquake hits San Francisco, twelve-year-old Phillip struggles to save the horses in his family's livery stable.