washington, d.c

Contains brief descriptions and contact information for federal agencies, congressional committees, and private organizations in the Washington, D.C., area, arranged in categories such as employment, health, national security, and transportation; provides contact information for members of Congress; and presents reference lists of related Web sites, governors, and foreign embassies. Includes name, organization, and subject indexes.

A description of the Vietnam Memorial, the memorial which commemorates the American dead from the Vietnamese Conflict and which is the most visited monument in the nation's capital.

Gilda Joyce, a teenage psychic investigator, gets to spend the summer interning for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where she stumbles onto a national security mystery.

A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.

When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.

Coming from a poor, single-parent family, seventh-grader Trevor must rely on his intelligence, artistic ability, quick wit, and soccer prowess to win friends at his new Washington, D.C. school, but popular and rich Xander seems determined to cause him trouble.

Coming from a poor, single-parent family, seventh-grader Trevor must rely on his intelligence, artistic ability, quick wit, and soccer prowess to win friends at his new Washington, D.C. school, but popular and rich Xander seems determined to cause him trouble.

After coming to live with nine-year-old Emily and her family in Washington, D.C., in 1916, Hitty, a well-traveled wooden doll, witnesses the efforts of Emily's aunt and other suffragettes to win the right for women to vote.

Clifford visits Washington D.C. and sees famous statues and national monuments and even meets the First Lady.