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Twelve stories describe the power of music in young people's lives, from forming a community of individuals in a high school band to helping a young man connect to his Indian heritage through ancient songs.
Thinking he is dreaming, Pierre, a lazy, foolish man, shows no fear as he performs many amazing and dangerous circus acts.
One hundred brief stories about real people and occurences in American history, arranged in chronological order by year from 1565 to 2000
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
An account of the survival of a twenty-eight man crew who set out on a 1914 expedition to Antarctica. Their ship was marooned in pack ice and later crushed by it. Explains the daily difficulties the men faced during thei...
An account of the survival of a twenty-eight man crew who set out on a 1914 expedition to Antarctica. Their ship was marooned in pack ice and later crushed by it. Explains the daily difficulties the men faced during thei...
1896. Elderly Susannah McKnight coaxes her granddaughter Mary to travel with her from their comfortable New York home to Canada, to visit someone Mary regards as an "old slave woman" and her young companion Free. But Mar...