"Eye-opening biography of Frances Glessner Lee, who brought American medical forensics into the scientific age...genuinely compelling."--Kirkus Reviews "A captivating portrait of a feminist hero and forensic pioneer." --Booklist The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics... Frances Glessner...

Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

Presents games and activities to cover basic theater vocabulary, puppetry and pantomime, sound effects, costumes, props, and makeup.

Sassy and Waldo love trips! When they put on their trench coat, everyone thinks they're a human kid named Salty. They can go to all the places that don't let dogs in. Like school. And the museum. Stewart says the museum is all facts and learning. He is not excited to go there. But Sassy and Waldo have a permission slip that says lunch on it. How can a trip to a place with lunch be bad? Sassy and Waldo are very excited for their class...

"The life of Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, in a new, illustrated edition of the Newbery Honor classic. Clara Ingram Judson's Newbery Honor Book is a richly drawn biography of Abraham Lincoln from his backwoods boyhood, to his days as a shopkeeper and lawyer, his entry into politics, and finally through his extraordinary presidency and tragic assassination. Judson presents Lincoln as he was--the plain-spoken and practical man, often...

Still in shock after discovering that he has the ability, although uncontrollable, to miniaturize himself, and that he has a twin brother who is the size of a toe, sixth-grader Daniel Funk tries to focus on completing a diorama about ancient Egypt for his history class.

"'I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. Raised in an intellectual, immigrant family in Brooklyn, Sapolsky wished he could live in the primate diorama in the Museum of Natural History. That dream came true when, upon graduating from college, he left the...