Emily Arnold McCully
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1940, four boys, Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel decided to explore a cave in the south of France called Lascaux hoping to find buried teasure. What they found instead was early painings of cows, bulls, bison, horses, and reindeer. Months after it was discoverered, the Lascaux cave was closed because of the war. It was reopened in 1948. Although there were other known caves with prehistoric wall paintings, Lascux was the only one in which...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the mid 1800's, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world. Includes actually information om John Muir.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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...
6) The Banshee
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
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