This filmstrip deals in part with author's childhood and travels. It also focuses on her writing, her thoughts and feelings about it, and some explanations of why she wrote as she did.
A short biography of Beverly Cleary, including her complaint as a child that there were no books about ordinary children, which helped to inspire her books about them..
When Althea Gibson broke the color line in 1950 to become the first African American to play in a national tennis tournament in the United States, she inspired hope. Young readers will delight in reading about Gibson and athletes like her.
An overview of terrorism including its origins and definitions, tactics and tools of terrorists, variou forms of terror, specific instances of terrorist actsand appendix of terrorist organizations.
