Recounts the eventful night of April 18, 1775, when Paul Revere rode from Boston to Concord to warn that British troops were on their way to seize the rebels' military supplies. Incorporates background information, elucidating the events leading up to Revere's escapade as well as its aftermath. For grades 2-4.

"Nellie Bly wasn't always Nellie Bly. First she was Elizabeth Cochrane, a shy girl from Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania. All her life Elizabeth had been told, 'girls can't do this' and 'girls can't do that.' But Elizabeth didn't believe it ... so one day she set out to prove it ..."

A juvenile biography of Benjamin Franklin, scientist, inventor, printer, writer, statesman, and Founding Father.

Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.