Henry complains to the royal governor, General Gage, after his plan to sled down the steep hill at Boston Common is thwarted by the masses of British troops camped there.

Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.

Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.

A biography of the German-born scientist and pacifist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.

On the first night of Hanukkah, a mother tells her family and a young guest the story of the holiday's origin.

Chained alone in a barn by the couple he thought might give him a good home, a very ugly stray dog is miserable until a new neighbor moves in and he falls in love.

Describes the disastrous voyage from Iceland to Russia of the supply-laden allied convoy PQ 17 during the summer of 1942.