Nancy Smiler Levinson

Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read-he says that 'Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the true story of America's first 'bookmobile.'

Briefly describes the early development of automobiles and their impact on daily life.

One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson."

A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

A biography of the Air Force test pilot who in 1947 was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound.