Sally Wern Comport

An inspiring biography introducing children to the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the historic march on Washington in 1963.

The twelve scientists who are profiled here are women from all sorts of backgrounds who are currently rocking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each of them has a different story to tell about how she got to where she is today, but the one thing they have in common is that they are truly wonder women of science. Around the world there are many more women doing incredible work and breaking new ground in STEM fields--not to mention...

A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a vision. An ingenious idea. The Recycled Orchestra, comprising of children from Cateura, Paraguay, playing instruments made from recycled trash, performs concerts all over the world to sold-out audiences. Here's the story of how it began.

Chronicles the life of the first female rocket scientist who, chosen to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite, broke gender barriers and overcame many challenges to succeed.

In this retelling of an Irish folktale, a brave young woman battles a sea serpent and rescues her true love from a giant.

The story of the creation of the iconic national symbol traces how artist Gutzon Borglum convinced a group of South Dakota businessmen to finance his death-defying Mount Rushmore sculpture of four U.S. presidents, a 14-year task that was ultimately completed by his son.

A biography of Thomas Savage, one of the early colonists of Jamestown, Virginia, who was sent to live among the Native Americans in order to learn their language and become an interpreter.

Eleven-year-old Sam Bamford's on-line chess pal is in New York to play in a tournament, but Sam's sister and cousin are wary because Vlad has pointy teeth, comes from Romania, and admits to keeping secrets.

With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

When President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French in 1803, the new lands raised such questions as how they would be governed, how the region's Native Americans would be treated, and whether the new states would be free states or slave states.