Ransom, Candice F.

As a girl and her father run errands in their old blue pickup, she discovers how many different ways they can use their truck.

Rhyming text describes the origins of Chincoteague ponies and how they were rounded up and sold for the first time to pay for a new fire engine. Includes facts about the ponies, their home on Assateague island, and their relationship with the people of Chincoteague island.

Examines the life of the marine biologist and science writer whose book "Silent Spring" changed the way we look at pesticides.

Third-grader Amber Cantrell discovers that boys and girls don't always think alike, when a classmate asks both Amber and her friend Delight to marry him and when her father starts dating a younger woman.

Amber is looking forward to a fun-filled summer vacation, but when her beloved stuffed raccoon disappears and her two best friends start acting funny, she discovers that things don't always turn out the way you want.

The surrender at Appomattox as seen through the eyes of eleven-year-old Willie McLean.

Answers the who, what, where, when, why, and how about the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

A biography of Maria von Trapp, the woman whose life was the subject of the popular play and film "The Sound of Music," discussing her childhood, her years in the convent, her experiences with the von Trapp family, and her move to the United States.

After her father leaves the family farm on Lost Mountain to be General Lee's guide, Addie finds ways to remember him-- even when he does not return at the end of the war.