Describes the Boston Tea Party, including the events leading up to the party, its immediate effects on American-British relations, and why it is still an important event today.

"Once books change their brains, girls change history. Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world's most influential women in this collection of 20 biographies"--

Profiles many of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities.

An alphabet book introducing musical terms, from allegro to zarzuela.

Presents a biography of the founder of the Mongol Dynasty in China.

"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little...

"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...

A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.

From Vivaldi to Guthrie, each of these 20 composers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the history of music. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.

MUSICIANS INCLUDED:

• Vivaldi
• Bach
• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Chopin
• Verdi
• Schumann
• Foster
• Brahms
• Tchaikovsky
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Satie
• Joplin
• Ives
• Stravinsky
• Boulanger
• Prokofiev
• Gershwin
• Guthrie

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From Cervantes to Langston Hughes, each of these 19 writers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the world of literature. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.

WRITERS INCLUDED:

• Shikibu
• Cervantes
• Shakespeare
• Austen
• Anderson
• Poe
• Dickens
• Brontë
• Dickinson
• Alcott
• Twain
• Burnett
• Stevenson
• London
• Sandburg
• White
• Hurston
• Hughes
• Singer

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