Jarrow, Gail

Provides an account of Thaddeus Lowe's efforts to provide intelligence to Union forces during the American Civil War, detailing how he managed to telegraph messages to the War Department in Washington from a silk hydrogen balloon that floated over the battlefields.

Discusses medieval castles: why they were built, who built them, how they were constructed, how they were used, their deterioration, and their repair and restoration.

Away from her city routine, eleven-year-old S.B. gets caught up in a new friend's story of magic and intrigue, and learns to view life differently.

Explains how various animals use cooperative means to raise their young.

Chronicles the events surrounding John Peter Zenger's 1735 arrest and trial for seditious libel against the British royal governor and explains how the case laid the groundwork for America's freedom of the press.

This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of chiggers and discusses the disease caused by chiggers in Asia and the Pacific Islands.

A biography of Robert H. Jackson, discussing his career as a Supreme Court Justice, prosecutor on the Nuremberg Trial, and a New Deal lawyer during the Great Depression.

Presents a complete introduction to the naked mole-rat, a hairless rodent found in Africa.

Describes this strange-looking rodent which lives a social life in a system of tunnels under the brick-hard soil of East Africa.