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
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnamsʼ Sons
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
5) 3, 2, 1, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.
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
Series
Mirette books volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.
10) Pete likes Bunny
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Pete likes Bunny, the new girl in his class; and despite teasing from classmates, Bunny likes Pete too"--
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.
13) First snow
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
A timid little mouse discovers the thrill of sledding in the first snow of the winter.
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...
15) The pirate queen
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of the renowned sixteenth-century Irish woman pirate.
16) 1, 2, 3, pull!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Min wants to be in Ann's show, and after building a crane to remove the tree that has fallen on the stage, she gets her chance.
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