Cathy East Dubowski

A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

A biography of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.

Otto competes in a street hockey game with Lars, who has a new and expensive hockey stick.

When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school, she arrives looking rather like a princess, with trunks full of the finest clothes. Yet despite having ehr own pony and carriage, private room, and personal maid, Sara is never a snob to her fellow pupils. Instead she is kind, thoughtful and generous, and soon makes many friends. But when the terrible news of her father's death and failed financial investments arrives,...

Describes the nearly disastrous encounter of a spear fisherman with a shark off the coast of Australia.

Describes the discovery by Alpine hikers near the Austrian-Italian border of the frozen body of a man who, after careful examination, was found to be more than 5,000 years old.