Jennifer Armstrong

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

One hundred brief stories about real people and occurrences in American history, arranged in chronological order by year from 1565 to 2000.

Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.

A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.

Through her friendship with a ginger cat, a haughty Chinese widow learns to be humble and to provide for herself.

Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio. Awed and oppressed by the vast prairie, Susie's mother hasn't set foot outside the sod house in months. On a trip into town to file a claim for additional property, Susie scours the Mercantile for a treat to cheer Mama. But it will take the contagious optimism and confidence...

In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

Nine-year-old Patrick promises his buddies that his baseball hero will come to their playground in Hell's Kitchen, bat for him, and chase the Copperheads out.

Mom blames Eleanor and Mark for making a mess of the house until she finally sees that the real culprit is the baby.