Walker, Sally M

Describes work, machines, inclined planes, gravity and friction, and wedges in everyday surroundings, and presents experiments that explain how they work.

Explores the stories of the Anishinaabe Indians of Michigan who served as sharpshooters in the American Civil War, particularly following the stories of Company K, the largest all-American Indian company in the Union Army. Includes archival photographs and maps of Company K's movements.

An introduction to magnetism that explains what it is, what materials are magnetic, how magnets work, what magnetic poles are, and what the different types of magnets are.

Describes the life and accomplishments of baseball star Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American in twentieth-century major-league baseball.

". . . middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who . . . fought in the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes how different machines are used to make work much easier.

Explains the concept of work, describes machines and the parts of a lever, and includes simple experiments.

Provides a detailed account of the 1865 sinking of the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River, a preventable disaster that was fueled by greed and haste, and which left more than 1,500 dead.

Provides an account of the disaster that occurred on December 6, 1917, when two ships carrying munitions and relief supplies to Europe collided, causing an explosion that leveled the towns of Halifax and Dartmouth and resulted in the deaths of nearly two thousand people.