Central Kansas Library System

Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...

Pre-teen girls' concern with breast development and menstruation and their growing interest in boys are treated in a tender, funny first-person story.

Describes how soap and water, toothpaste and toothbrush, and comb and brush were invented and how they keep us clean and healthy.

Introduces some of the revolting creatures that might be residing in your klitchen.

In the style of a classic cumulative rhyme, the children undo all of Dad's hard work cleaning the family car.