Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.
In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.
Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were murdered; however, the upcoming trial and a high school history assignment forces him to face the past.
Examines the life and achievements of nineteenth-century French scientist Louis Pasteur, discussing the great curiosity that led to his discoveries in the field of medicine.
Discusses the history and technical development of the vacuum cleaner, from the first carpet sweepers of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century improvements.
When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
While trying to adjust to life at a new military base in a town where the residents hate the Army, Kevin, the son of a Lieutenant Colonel, uncovers a plot to destroy the base.
