Beacon paperback

Traces the lost heritage of women in science from prehistory through the nineteenth century. Includes the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, Emillie du Chatelet, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Caroline Herschel.

A lonely river boy with a silver trumpet follows his music through a series of wondrous and strange adventures.

The story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcame poverty, foot -binding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.