Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. Includes recipe.

While her teacher Miss Splinter is lecturing her second-grade class about the exotic animals, clowns, and other performers they are watching at the circus, Emeline accidentally becomes part of the show.

Lazlo, who has just moved to the United States from Hungary, is ostracized at school until two girls have the courage to befriend him.

Describes how some of Paris's famous artists and writers, such as Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire, spend their day before preparing to attend a party at Gertrude Stein's apartment.

Miss Cora Lee Merriweather haunts her bake shop after her death, until the new shop owner makes a deal with her.

A biography of the first woman doctor in the United States.

A picture book biography of Ada Lovelace, the woman recognized today as historys first computer programmershe imagined them 100 years before they existed!In the early nineteenth century lived Ada Byron: a young girl with a wild and wonderful imagination. The daughter of internationally acclaimed poet Lord Byron, Ada was tutored in science and mathematics from a very early age. But Adas imagination was never meant to be tamed and, armed with the fundamentals...

Recounts the legend of North Carolina teenager, Betsy Dowdy, whose courageous ride on a cold December night in 1775 may have played a crucial role in the American Revolution.

A collection of humorous poems by a variety of authors including John Ciardi, X.J. Kennedy, Eve Merriam, and William Jay Smith.

Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.