Emily Arnold McCully

The older children tell Sam he is too small to play with them, but when they need help Sam saves the day.

"Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and the first woman to be paid as a scientist."--

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of 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. At seventeen,...

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. Includes an author's note.

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

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

Mother Duck is on the run trying to keep her ducklings safe.

"A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--