"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,...

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

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

Pete the pig does not want to eat his slop, but cannot go out to play with his brother and sisters until he does.

Some little mice spend a snowy day skating and sledding with their grandparents.

Relates the life story of the nineteenth-century inventor who began inventing things as a child growing up in York, Maine, and later invented and patented a machine that made brown paper bags with flat bottoms.

In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.

Tells the story of two unlikely kung fu masters and how their skill in martial arts saves them both.

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.