Robert Burleigh

A young boy and his father travel in the darkness to wait for the oncoming train carrying the body of President Abraham Lincoln. The railroad train moved slowly until a lone voice shouted, "You're coming home, Abraham Lincoln. Home at last." The boy and his father went home again in the small black buggy with the wheels turning.

Describes how Charles Lindbergh achieved the remarkable feat of flying nonstop and solo from New York to Paris in 1927. Recounts the story of Charles Lindbergh and his flight across the ocean, the first solo Atlantic crossing ever, which he accomplished with only two compasses and the stars as his guides

An illustrated portrait of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt traces the years she spent measuring stars from her position at the Harvard College Observatory and her important discoveries that enabled the scientific community to gain a fuller understanding of the universe's vast size.