Brown, Don

"A Shot in the Arm! explores the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious diseases, from smallpox--perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date--to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting deadly diseases such as measles, polio, rabies, cholera, and influenza. Brown tackles the science behind how our immune systems work. ... "-- Provided by publisher.

When the British attacked America in 1814 and stalked Washington D.C. nearly everyone left but Dolley Madison, who remained to rescue George Washington's famous portrait from the British soldiers who would have destroyed it. Years later when the war was over, the painting was brought back to the White House where it remains on display today in good condition.

Introduces young readers to the history of the California gold rush, describing the journey to California, the process of panning for gold, and the fortunes that this gold brought many different people.

A nonfiction graphic novel that explores the people and technology that made computers, robots, and artificial intelligence possible.

A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.

Presents a picture-book biography of Albert Einstein, focusing on his oddness as a baby and child, and his disinterest in school, and discussing the significance of his discoveries in physics.

Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco in an automobile in 1909.

In graphic novel format looks at the 1918 worldwide flu epidemic.