"Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of electricity in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series In 600 BCE, the Greek mathematician Thales observed a seemingly strange phenomenon: amber, when rubbed with a cloth, had the ability to attract l...
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In September 1986, a loveable alien named ALF crashed his spaceship into the home of the unsuspecting Tanner family. For the next four years, ALF elusively avoided houseguests, chased the cat, ate everything in sight, but the Tanners always loved ALF.
Vivienne Le Coudy is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outb...
"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the CO...
A story of senseless destruction, patriotism, and grit against all odds focuses on the people of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol who stayed to defend their home against Russian forces, which came with a devastating price.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 b...
Describes the record-breaking flight of a daring woman pilot, Ruth Law, from Chicago to New York in 1916.
Vivienne Le Coudy is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outb...
Chucky continues his quest to possess the body of a human child. Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, Andy Barclay turns 16 and is placed in a military school. Meanwhile, the president of Play Pals Toy Company decides to resurrect the popular Good Guys doll lin...