Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when she realizes, hours later, the ring is missing.

Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.

On December 13, 1862, Federal forces suffered terrible casualties in several futile assaults against Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Although this engagement was tactically insignificant to either side during the Civil War, the actions of Sgt. Richard Kirkland on the morning after the massacre left a lasting legacy and gave birth to the story of "The Angel of Marye's Heights."

"In 1936, nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and the nation by storm when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. These sons of loggers, shipyard workers and farmers overcame tremendous hardships--psychological, physical, economic--to beat not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast, but Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers. The boys' unexpected victory, and the obstacles...

Dutch immigrant, Harry deLeyer, journeyed to the United States after World War II and developed a transformative relationship with a broken down Amish plow horse he rescued off a slaughter truck bound for the glue factory. Harry paid eighty dollars for the horse and named him Snowman. In less than two years, Harry & Snowman went on to win the triple crown of show jumping, beating the nations blue bloods and they became famous and traveled around the...