"This fun book of quirky failures and famous flops will keep kids laughing while they learn the importance of messing up in order to get it right. Science, architecture, technology, entertainment--there are epic fails and hilarious goof-ups from every important field. Silly side features help to analyze the failures: Lesson Learned, It Could Be Worse, Losing Combinations, and a Fail Scale help readers navigate the different kinds and scopes of the...

A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; Jos�e tries to reach...

Collects inspiring and memorable quotes from thirteen Americans who stood up for their beliefs of equality and justice, from Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama.

Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.

Depicts and recounts the experiences of individuals from history pursuing freedom, from a Delaware Indian chief negotiating a peace treaty to an African child surviving the Amistad slave ship rebellion.

"Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn't know that he had a zebra, a lion, and a one-legged rooster at the White House! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the larger-than-life president, from his childhood and his Rough Rider days to his rise to politics...

A look at the life and adventures of Walter Paine and his pet pig growing up in Massachusetts in the nineteen thirties.

Features female figures of black history, including abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.

Presents the stories of remarkable animal companions, including unlikely animal friends, animal heroes, amazing animal tricks, and wacky animal antics.