It starts the last day of school. I’m on my way home, coasting down Spotter Hill on my crummy old bike. ..
Chapter One Scarlett Thomas has been my best friend for as long as I can remember. That’s why I knew ..
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Miriam sang as soon as she could talk and danced as soon as she could walk. She sang folk songs as her mother ..
INTO THE FOREST In 1960, Jane moved to the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. At first, the chimpanzees ..
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After the United States entered World War II in 1941, Mary left her teaching career and moved once again, ..
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“Muhammad…?” the substitute teacher said as she squinted and brought the attendance ..
You could say that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life has been… one disagreement after another. This ..
NOW, IN A PLACE AS CROWDED AS THIS, I’M AFRAID WE’LL NEVER BE FOUND. “I DON’T ..
My brother likes looking for treasure. Glittery treasure… even trash-can treasure! But one day he found ..
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When I first visited Poland, sometime around 2009, I thought it would be a vacation. My brother and sister-in-law, ..
Gwendolyn grew up in the big city of Chicago with little money to spare. Yet her family owned great treasure, ..
Alice Ball 1892-1916 CHEMIST, MEDICAL RESEARCHER Both Alice’s mother and grandfather were photographers, ..
Richard didn’t know anything about tennis, but it didn’t stop him from saying the wildest ..
Who Was Anne Frank? Anne Frank was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent, who faced the hardships ..
Emma led Marty to the schoolyard. Ava has been taunting me all week about the jump-rope challenge. I bet she had something ..
Mom and Dad enrolled us in the Mary S. Black Elementary School, a long, low building with an asphalt ..
Son, Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting ..
