Presents a brief biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activits and leader, and includes information on her childhood, her achievements, and her legacy.
Looks at the history of sewing and how it was transformed in the 1850s when an American inventor, Isaac Singer, not only invented a practical sewing machine, but also a way for everyone to afford one.
Discusses the relationship of Chicago to the formation of The Chicago White Sox with profiles of: Joe Jackson, Nellie Fox, Minnie Minoso, Bill Veeck, Dick Allen, and Frank Thomas.
Discusses the history of the Boston basketball franchise and their many NBA championships, as well as such key personalities as Bill Russell, Larry Bird, and Red Auerbach.
A collection of interviews with fourteen artists and writers of picture books who, regardless of their country of origin, have had a major impact in the United States.
Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants. Includes an afterword with facts about Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service she founded.
In England in the late thirteenth century, a young chorister at the Cathedral of Saint Aelred, outcast because of his crippled foot, sympathizes with the city's other outcasts, the Jews, and sets out to prove their leader innocent of murder.
