Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

Paulina, Miko, Tally, and Ivy are very different seventh-grade girls, but they must try to put their differences aside and come up with a magazine to submit to a competition in order to get funding for a new school program.

Chronicles the childhood of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and explores Tibet.

Explores the scientific rivalry of Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh, and how the work produced by this rivalry influenced the emerging field of paleontology.

Joe agrees to give Osbert the penguin and his friends a ride in his new helicopter to the South Pole where they have been invited to view the southern lights--as long as he is home in time for his mother's Midwinter Bash, but when they arrive, Osbert is to taken with Aurora, a female penguin, that Joe begins to think he is going to have to leave Osbert behind.

Feeling more comfortable with her developing skills as a medium, eighth-grader Kat looks forward to the class trip to Montreal but once there she finds herself confronted by a cast of all new ghosts and a host of other problems.

Kat accompanies her best friend Jac to a musicians' conference at the Whispering Pines Mountain House, where she works to free the spirit of a dead medium and helps Jac resolve a serious conflict.

Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.

Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.

Following the death of his father, Bill joins a wagon train to the west, where he is befriended by the famous marksman, Wild Bill Hickock.