Marie Lafrance

Meet the Tweedles: Papa, Mama, daughter Frances and her brother, Francis. It's the dawn of a new century-the twentieth century!-and the Tweedles have decided to buy a car. But no gas-guzzler for this modern family. Only an electric car will do for them. Frances is the only member of her eccentric family who is not delighted when Papa decides they need an electric car. She would rather read a book. Frances knows that cars go fast, which can only lead...

The true story of a light bulb in a firehouse located in Livermore, California, that has stayed lit for more than one hundred years.

When Anna Swan came into the world, people chattered. They whispered over tea and gossiped across fences. Because even when she was small, Anna was... tall. By the time she was four, she'd risen higher than a rain barrel. At six, she was taller than her mother. By ten, she towered over her father. And still she grew, always feeling she did not fit into her world. But Anna had dreams that matched her height -- she imagined a life of travel and adventure....