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.
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.
Presents an illustrated, biographical discussion of photographer George Eastman, who invented dry plates, film, and the Brownie camera in the late nineteenth century.
Describes the physical characteristics, hunting and feeding behavior, habitat, life cycle, methods of communication, and endangered status of alligators.
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.