Emily Arnold McCully

"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....

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.

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...

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take Pip and her friends trick-or-treating on Halloween.

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

A timid little mouse discovers the thrill of sledding in the first snow of the winter.

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...

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.

"A rhinoceros tours Europe in the mid-18th century and becomes a sensation--based on a true story"--