Anderson, Joan

A guide to managing life as a single mother, discussing children, careers, finances, credit, retirement, home ownership, wills, home repair, romance, and other related topics.

One day Harry's bright red cardboard helicopter takes off with him in a gust of wind and gives him a thrilling ride.

Describes the experiences of twins Amy and Laurel Foster, who trained for ten years to become professional ballerinas and studied at the School of American Ballet in New York.

Describes the life, basketball career, and daily routine of Tamika Whitmore, a player with the New York Liberty, a team in the Women's National Basketball Association.

Focuses on events in the household of a white family and its African-American slaves in colonial Williamsburg in the eighteenth century.

Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia recreate the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century.

Discusses the duties of bat boy Kenny Garibaldi, including delivering fan mail, cleaning shoes, making sure the players have everything they need, and helping the baseball game run quickly and smoothly. Provides a close-up view of spring training for the San Francisco Giants in Arizona.

A pictorial essay on cowboys, focusing on the annual round-up at the Eby Ranch in Faywood, New Mexico.

Recreates Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in 1836 in the fictional village of Prairietown, Indiana, to show how the holiday was celebrated in a typical frontier community.

Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.