Marissa Moss

When told to draw a jungle in art class, Regina experiences feelings of failure and creative insecurity, but manages to create a beautiful picture that's all her own.

Problems arise for Amelia when she starts sixth grade at the same middle school where her older sister Cleo is an eighth-grader, and she gets the school's meanest teacher for three of her classes.

In the late 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies-- until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter. Many of those...

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about notes and friendship.

Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills" and tries to figure out what it means that she likes shop class better than home economics.

Amelia records in her diary a nightmare come true when her embarrassing older sister tags along on a sixth-grade class trip, and then she learns about the nasty side of gossip when rumors start about her at her new school

Amelia and her friend start a babysitting business.

The first American woman to have received a pilot's license describes her April 1912 solo flight across the English Channel, the first such flight by any woman.

Ten-year-old Amelia records her thoughts and feelings about flying solo to Chicago to meet the father she has not seen since her parents divorced when she was an infant.