Monica Kulling

Text and illustrations offer an introduction to the life and inventions of nineteenth-century Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication.

Roger's mother brings home an orange cat named Marmalade and Roger and the cat learn to work out territorial problems.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Highlights the early life of Garrett Morgan who was born the son of freed slaves and with a determination to have a better life, began inventing things. Highlights Garrett's invention of a safety hood that was rejected because it was made by an African American, but when a fiery explosion occurred in a tunnel under Lake Erie, it proved to be lifesaving. And years later, it was used by the military during World War I.

"Aunt Pearl arrives one day pushing a shopping cart full of her worldly goods. Her sister Rose has invited her to come live with her family. Six-year-old Marta is happy to meet her aunt, who takes her out to look for treasure on garbage day, and who shows her camp group how to decorate a coffee table with bottle caps. But almost immediately, Pearl and Rose start to clash--over Pearl's belongings crammed into the house, and over Rose's household rules....

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.