Hollingsworth, Tamara Leigh

Offers brief accounts of well-known milestones in news reporting and broadcasting, such as the invention of the printing press and television, and how innovations help disperse news today.

Presents numerous types of natural disasters describing their causes, destruction, and what people can do to minimize their effects.

Chronicles the life and times of the well-known blind and deaf woman who learned how to read, write, and speak, and eventually became the first hearing impaired and visually impaired person to obtain a college degree.

Describes the time Anne Frank and her family spent in hiding in their Amsterdam attic home during the Nazi occupation of Holland.