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(0)Barbara Mitchell
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry Ford loved mechanical things: springs and gears, cogs and wheels, and things that clicked and ticked and turned. One hot summer day in 1876, Henry and his father were riding to Detroit in their farm wagon. Suddenly there was a huffing-puffing monster heading straight toward them. It was a road-roller, and it was lumbering down the road all by itself. That was the day Henry started thinking about horseless riding machines--and he never stopped....
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in China as the child of American missionaries, Pearl read and listened to stories from both the East and the West. A story, she thought, was a wonderful way to learn about people and places. Pearl had read and heard about America and her family there, but she had never met her American relatives. When, at the age of 10, she spent a year in America, Pearl came to understand that she was a part of two worlds. Between Two Worlds tells the...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
There wasn't anything that George Washington Carver couldn't grow. He took the common goober--today's peanut--and created hundreds of useful products from it, turning goobers into a very profitable staple for the South. At the same time, this very special man passed on to everyone who knew him the importance of following one's own dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jan Matzeliger felt anything but welcome in Philadelphia in 1873. As well as being a foreigner, Jan was half African American, which meant that most doors were closed to him. Although the Civil War had been over for nearly ten years, inequality for African Americans still persisted in its aftermath. However, Jan refused to let prejudice keep him from achieving his dream of making a shoe-lasting machine to replace the tedious, time-consuming hand sewing...