Orem Library

Mirette learns from a tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

In the mid-1800's, Maisie Ferris and her father travel to England to introduce the American phenomenon of popcorn.

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

"A rhinoceros tours Europe in the mid-18th century and becomes a sensation--based on a true story"--

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.

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.

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.