Recounts the life of the scientist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.

Describes how the creation of the world was begun by a woman who fell down to earth from the sky country, and how it was finished by her two sons Sapling and Flint.

Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.

A biography of the German-born scientist and pacifist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.

After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him.

Henry complains to the royal governor, General Gage, after his plan to sled down the steep hill at Boston Common is thwarted by the masses of British troops camped there.

Hard times on adjoining farms bring about parallel acts of kindness and a celebration of "how good it is for brothers to live together in friendship."

Thirty-two poems from the oral tradition of fifteen North American tribes.