When Billy Broccoli moves into his new house, he discovers Hoover Porterhouse, a teenage ghost, is haunting his room. Hoover helps Billy get in style, stand up to bullies, and conquer his new school.
A collection of brief biographies about famous Americans, including the title story about the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
The true story of Phineas Gage, whose brain had been pierced by an iron rod in 1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain functions.