Collard, Sneed B

A photographic biography of Rosa Parks, discussing her childhood, marriage, and work on behalf of civil rights for African-Americans, focusing on her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, which led to the end of segregation in Alabama.

A biography of nineteenth-century frontiersman David Crockett, discussing his early life in Tennessee, his political career, and his role in the fight for the independence of Texas.

A brief biography of Abraham Lincoln that chronicles his childhood, education, early political career, presidency, and leadership during the Civil War.

A biography of John Adams, discussing his early life and education in colonial America, his role in the movement for independence, and his accomplishments as the second president of the United States.

Examines the life of Jacob Lawrence, discussing his childhood, his move to Harlem as a young teen, his introduction to art, the development of his style, and his attempts to record African-American history through his paintings.

After moving from California to Montana with his mother, thirteen-year-old Guy becomes the target of the school bully, Brad Mullen, but with the help of one of his classmates, Luke Grant, Guy devises a plan to train Streak, Guy's dog, to beat Brad's dog in the town's Frisbee-catching competition.

Describes the work of marine biologist John Calambokidis, who studies whales off the coast of California.

High school sophomore Luther Wright volunteers to help raptors at a local veterinary clinic and helps Alex, a new girl who is a social outcast, discover the truth behind the forest fires that are afflicting their small, Montana town.

Presents a description of the process by which hundreds of coral participate in a mass spawning event each spring, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, describing how they release their sperm and eggs into the ocean, are fertilized, then fend of various predators in the ocean.

The author describes his trip to a river in Malaysia at the age of fifteen to observe fireflies with his stepfather, world-renowned firefly expert, Professor James F. Case, and discusses certain characteristics of fireflies and how scientists study them.