Goodman, Susan E.

A middle school class from Boston visits Cobscook Bay, Maine, to learn about the marine biology of the Bay's tidal zone.

Describes efforts by scientists to re-establish a whooping crane flock that would spend summers in Wisconsin and winters in Florida.

Eighth-graders from Hannibal, Missouri attempt to help archaeologists at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado discover why the Puebloans who had lived there for over a thousand years suddenly left around A.D. 1300.

Hazelle, taken to live in an orphanage after her mother is hospitalized, is forced to leave New York and travel to Texas on an orphan train, but she is lucky enough to be adopted by an understanding family that helps her find out what happened to her mom. Based on true events.

Provides information about the history of trains and introduces a variety of trains and their technologies.

Describes the experiences of a group of middle school students who spend a week at Kings Landing Historical Settlement, learning what life was like for young people in the nineteenth century.

The senses of animals are described and compared to those of a human boy on a summer evening.

While making house calls with her frontier-doctor father, Cora Frear finds herself in a dangerous situation when she and her father are surrounded by a prairie fire raging out of control.

A photographic record of a five-year-old Connecticut girl's year in a remote village in eastern Malaysia.