Nancy Smiler Levinson

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountainsand creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thusearning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson."

A monkey keeps trying to take a photograph of a giraffe couple, but the other animals insist on pushing their way into the picture.

This book tells what it was like to live in Alaska many years before it became a state in 1959.

Describes the desert habitat of Death Valley and the plants and animals that live there.