After being forced to change to a fancy new coat to attend a party, Nasrettin Hoca tries to feed his dinner to the coat, reasoning that it was the coat that was the invited guest.
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
In the early 1900s, because her family cannot afford a train ticket for her, 5-year-old May gets mailed for 53 cents in postage so she can ride the train across the mountains to visit her grandmother.
By Katherine Paterson, ohn Paterson, and Susan Jeffers (Illustrator)
In the summer of 1942, when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands lives down the road from his family's house in Massachusetts, young William decides to take her some of the blueberries he has picked. Based on a true story.
By Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
The story of one of the most daring African-American cowboys who developed the rodeo act of bulldogging, his unique form of steer wrestling, in the late 1800s.
By Celia Barker Lottridge and Elsa Myotte (Illustrator)
Berta the dachshund is a tender and watchful foster mother to a newborn lamb
and other young animals in her farmyard - just as she plans to be with her
own puppies.
