Emily Arnold McCully

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.

Mother duck and little ducks are taking a walk. On their way, they cross a drainage grate that has holes in it. Mother duck's feet are large enough to walk on it, but when the little ducks follow her, they fall through the holes into the sewer water. Mother duck is frantic to get her babies and they keep looking up to her for help.

Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.

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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

"A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--

In the mid-1800's Maisie Ferris and her father travel to England to introduce the American phenomenon of popcorn.

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe....

This book is based on the real life of Etzel von Oeringen, known as Strongheart, whose hugely popular movies introduced Americans to the German shepherd. The breed, developed in Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, was highly intelligent, brave, and loyal, and was adoped by the German army and police. Larry Trimble, a pioneer movie director and animal trainer, was auditioning dogs to star in a movie when he first encountered Etzel in a...

"Pete likes Bunny, the new girl in his class; and despite teasing from classmates, Bunny likes Pete too"--