Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition, when the ship the Endurance was crushed in a frozen sea and the men made the perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

A biography of Leif, son of Norseman Eric the Red, who led a group of Vikings from Greenland on a voyage which ended on the shores of North America.

The elderly shut-in she visits once a week becomes an unexpected source of friendship and strength for thirteen-year-old Jenna, and each of them is eventually able to face and overcome painful aspects of her life.

Thirteen-year-old Kat, still not comfortable in her role as a medium, and her friend Jac, undergoing a serious crisis about the role of music in her life, try to find a way to help the unhappy spirit of a young boy in the abandoned house next door.

Paulina, Miko, Tally, and Ivy are very different seventh-grade girls, but they must try to put their differences aside and come up with a magazine to submit to a competition in order to get funding for a new school program.

Chronicles the childhood of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and explores Tibet.

Explores the scientific rivalry of Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh, and how the work produced by this rivalry influenced the emerging field of paleontology.

Joe agrees to give Osbert the penguin and his friends a ride in his new helicopter to the South Pole where they have been invited to view the southern lights--as long as he is home in time for his mother's Midwinter Bash, but when they arrive, Osbert is to taken with Aurora, a female penguin, that Joe begins to think he is going to have to leave Osbert behind.

Feeling more comfortable with her developing skills as a medium, eighth-grader Kat looks forward to the class trip to Montreal but once there she finds herself confronted by a cast of all new ghosts and a host of other problems.