Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runs a company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers.
R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, inventor, and poet
Lord, Athena V
1978
A biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect and inventor whose investigations into the principles of nature influenced his designs and helped revolutionize our world.
In upstate New York in 1939, eleven-year-old, Greek-American Zach contends with the varied problems and pleasures of growing up and with his little sister Zoe.