Emily Arnold McCully

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe....

Young Pip doesn't know what to do when two very different grandmothers come to baby sit, each with her own way of doing things.

Pete the pig does not want to eat his slop, but cannot go out to play with his brother and sisters until he does.

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

Min wants to be in Ann's show, and after building a crane to remove the tree that has fallen on the stage, she gets her chance.

"A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--

Distracted by his friends, Pete the pig forgets to give Gert an invitation to Rose's party.

The true story of how one little girl inspired a whole new language--American Sign Language--as well as the founding of a school where it could be taught.