Sterling North

The author's carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.

From the moment the little black lamb is born, the life of a lonesome ten-year-old orphan centers around his struggle to keep and protect it, although God and proud, religious Granny Kinkaid seem to be against him.

Describes in text and drawings the sights and sounds of woodland wildlife awakening as spring begins.

A biography of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his childhood spent in poverty on the Midwestern frontier, and chronicling his rise to the Presidency and the highlights of his tenure.

Unable to hear, Thomas Edison seemed unlikely to become one of America’s greatest inventors, but as a hardworking young man, he wasn’t about to let a minor obstacle stop him. He invented the phonograph, the incandescent lightbulb, and motion pictures, to name but three of his many important inventions. Eventually he was named “the greatest living American.” Follow Thomas Edison’s life from losing his sense of hearing to losing his hard-earned fortune, in this intriguing biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.

Covers the construction of the "New Orleans," its historic voyage on the Mississippi River, and the life of inventor and engineer Nicholas Roosevelt who pioneered in steam navigation.

Pretty boring book, i wouldnt make your kids read it because they will never finish it. Or the packet.

Far back in the narrow cave, the wolf hears the men digging. She knows they'll kill her. But how can she abandon her helpless pups? Robbie Trent is determined to help the wolves escape - even if it means crawling into the cave alone, and facing the desperate mother!

In the nineteenth-century midwest, a young boy adopts a wolf whelp and gains the attention and friendship of the Swedish-American naturalist Thure Kumlien.