Kulling, Monica

Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.

After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Provides facts about bears, from the grizzly and polar bear to more exotic species like the sloth bear and the spectacled bear.

Presents a brief, fictionalized, account of the events of October 10, 1901, in simple text with illustrations, when Henry Ford drove one of the first automobiles and won a race to earn money to build a new car that anyone could afford.

Surveys the life of Harriet Tubman, including her childhood in slavery and her later work in helping other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Profiles Elisha Otis, the inventor of the elevator, and discusses the impact of his invention.

Describes the physical characteristics, hunting and feeding behavior, habitat, life cycle, methods of communication, and endangered status of alligators.

A simplified retelling of the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.