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Caroline's Comets - A True Story by Emily Arnold McCully
Category: Education
Born the youngest daughter of a poor family in Hanover, Germany, Caroline was scarred from smallpox, stunted from typhus, and used by her parents as a scullery maid. But when her favorite brother, William, left for England, he took her with him. The siblings shared a passion for stars, and together they ...Show more
Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer by Emily Arnold McCully
Category: Children's Non Fiction
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer. 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 ...Show more
Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer by Emily Arnold McCully
Category: Children's Non Fiction
Today, Ada Lovelace is recognized and celebrated as a pioneer and a prophet of the information age, presaging computer programming by a century. In the 1800s, she was having an unusual upbringing-even by the standards of the time. Tutored by some of the brightest minds, Ada, the daughter of bad-boy poet ...Show more
Kate's Light - Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse by Elizabeth Spires; Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)
Category: Education
The heroic true story of one of the Eastern seaboard's first woman lighthouse keepers, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist. Living in the isolated Robbins Reef Lighthouse, overlooking turn-of-the-century New York Harbor, Kate Walker spent her life minding the light, keeping passing ships from running a ...Show more
Marvelous Mattie : How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully
Category: Children's Non Fiction
With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father's toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented t ...Show more
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
Category: Picture Books
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boardinghouse. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. When Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she knows she mus ...Show more
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
Category: Children's
One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau--a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Gr ...Show more
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