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Marie Antoinette was born into royalty in 1755 and married the future king of France at age 15. She enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of masquerade balls,...

Born in Poland in 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study p...

As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a p...

In 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely ...

Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, w...

Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent for baseball. His incredible skill soon got him drafted int...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights prote...

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? The shy Virginia statesman refused at first...

Born on December 28, 1856, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was a born leader. He was the president of Princeton University, served as governor of New Jersey ...

There's a surprise on every page of this book about animals that lay eggs. Rhyming and repeated text make it a fun easy reader.

The elephant wants to take a calm bath, but he quickly realizes that many animals are following him: two big rhinoceroses, three elegant giraffes, ...

Someone left an unfinished drawing and a sad character asking, "Who am I?" It will take a talented artist to find out the answer to this question. ...

As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by w...

There are chocolate truths, colorful truths, and rather hairy truths. But through it all, there is a marvelous and immense truth: friendship.

Third grade is definitely turning into the worst year of Amber’s life. How things change from worse to better to unforgettably good makes for engro...

Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantit...