McCully, Emily Arnold

Contains brief biographies of twenty-one women who made a difference in the world, including Ida Minerva Tarbell, Jane Addams, and Billie Jean King.

Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age.

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--Provided by publisher.

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--Provided by publisher.

On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool.

"Pete likes Bunny, the new girl in his class; and despite teasing from classmates, Bunny likes Pete too"--Provided by publisher.

All his life Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and a French fur-trapper, has lived in two worlds: the Westernized world of his godfather, William Clark, and the frontier world beyond St. Louis--but he is troubled by the way Americans mistreat tribes like the Osage, Arikara, and Mandan, and as a man of mixed ancestry, he must ultimately choose which of the two heritages is more important to him.

Mirette learns tightrope walking from a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.