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Young Oney Judge risks everything to escape a life of slavery in the household of George and Martha Washington and to make her own way as a free black woman.

Young Pip doesn't know what to do when two very different grandmothers come to baby sit, each with her own way of doing things.

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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.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 ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.

Pip and Ski have a hard time enjoying themselves at the lake with Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything.

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

Provides an illustrated account of how four boys, Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel, discovered the ancient paintings in the cave of Lascaux in the south of France in 1940 while searching for treasure.

A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely.

Irish Grania O'Malley is born with the light of the sea in her eye and grows to become a courageous pirate, even braving the wrath of England's Queen Elizabeth I to defend her life and lands.

Cordelia learns a lesson about the rights and abilities of girls and women when she spends time taking care of Jules, a horse belonging to nineteenth century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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

With the help of a young immigrant boy they meet on their crossing to America, two famous tightrope walkers manage to survive the treachery of a rival showman.

Describes inventor Margaret E. Knight's childhood, explaining how her interest in mechanical innovations began, and tells the story of her invention of a paper bag maker and her legal battle for the patent after someone stole her idea.

Details the true story of Nakahama Manjiro, a young Japanese boy who in 1841 was shipwrecked along with three friends and rescued by the captain of an American whaling ship.

John has been practicing a magic trick instead of the piano and is worried about disappointing his musician father, but then he gets to be a hero in the castle where his father is performing.