Describes the life and achievements of the hardworking scientist who was awarded a joint Nobel Prize for physics with her husband in 1903 and later a Nobel Prize for chemistry.
Sophie and Jake, who don't find history interesting, test a computer program that shows what life was like in ancient Rome, Viking times, the Renaissance, the Gold Rush era, World War Two, and into the space age.
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.