Emily Arnold McCully

Pete the pig does not want to eat his slop, but cannot go out to play with his brother and sisters until he does.

A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.

While travelling with her mother cross-country by train in 1896, a young girl unexpectedly shares Thanksgiving dinner with the notorious outlaw, Butch Cassidy.

Mother Duck is on the run trying to keep her ducklings safe.

The older children tell Sam he is too small to play with them, but when they need help Sam saves the day.

A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe....

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

"A biography of Mary Wilkins Ellis, a woman pilot who flew planes for Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II and ran an airport on the Isle of Wight"--

This is the true story of a determined and resourceful young man whose intimate knowledge of two cultures later led him to play an important role in the opening of Japan to Western trade and ideas.