Overview :In 1899, a brand-new invention rattled down the dirt roads of Carroll County, Maryland--a post office on wheels! Postal worker Edwin W. Shri... Read More
Overview :Samuel Morse was a painter and an American inventor who invented the telegraph key which forever changed communication. The biography descri... Read More
Overview :Born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, Frederick Douglass never planned to be the most famous black man in the world. He just wanted to be... Read More
Overview :Fourth grade in Fort Worth, Texas may not be as bad as Nora Jean expects. Something is always happening in Mrs. Carter's class. Skinny Nora ... Read More
Overview :One rainy night in 1888, a stray dog wandered into the U.S. Post Office in Albany, New York. Workers found him the next morning asleep on a ... Read More
Overview :By the time she was four, Beverly, or "Bubbles" was performing in public. She learned to sing opera by imitating her mother's records. When ... Read More
Overview :Amelia Earhart--pioneer, adventurer, pilot As a child, Amelia Earhart wondered why there were no horoines in her favorite adventure stories.... Read More
Overview :Applying an informal and practical approach, Kerby provides beginning librarians with the essential steps to effectively manage a vibrant sc... Read More