When "The Golden Rectangle" begins, Lucy Moon is hiding in the barn on her father's farm in Puddleville, Ga., while snow swirls on a 90-degree day.Yep, you read that right. The snow has been created by crushing 40,000 pounds of ice in honor of the wedding of Lucy's sister, Nell. The wedding ...
March 10, 2013, will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman, a fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad. She is greatly admired for her bravery in guiding slaves to freedom and for her generous spirit. But for many years, her story was in danger of being forgotten.When ...
WASHINGTON — When Amy and Dan Cahill turn up in Madagascar or Moscow, their fans don't bat an eye. The young heroes of the "39 Clues" books are known for continent hopping to stop the evil Vesper clan's plan to destroy the world. But the final installment in the "Cahills vs. Vespers" series ...
Big Jim Kennally ran an organization that made counterfeit (or fake) money in the 1870s. He had a big problem: His best counterfeiter, Ben Boyd, was in prison. Boyd made metal plates that would stamp the image of money on paper. And it was almost impossible to tell Boyd's fake money from the ...
Big Jim Kennally ran an organization that made counterfeit (or fake) money in the 1870s. He had a big problem: His best counterfeiter, Ben Boyd, was in prison. Boyd made metal plates that would stamp the image of money on paper. And it was almost impossible to tell Boyd's fake money from the ...
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis thinks there's one thing that makes him well-prepared for his new career as an author of illustrated kids' books."I've never been a good artist," confesses Pastis, whose style of drawing uses clean, bold lines. Drawing for books lets him rely more on the words.Pastis, ...
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis thinks there's one thing that makes him well-prepared for his new career as an author of illustrated kids' books."I've never been a good artist," confesses Pastis, whose style of drawing uses clean, bold lines. Drawing for books lets him rely more on the words.Pastis, ...
The year 1863 was an important one for the rights of African Americans in the United States. The country was in the middle of the Civil War, with Southern states (also called the Confederacy) having seceded — or separated — from the North (the Union). A large reason for the war was slavery, ...
The year 1863 was an important one for the rights of African Americans in the United States. The country was in the middle of the Civil War, with Southern states (also called the Confederacy) having seceded — or separated — from the North (the Union). A large reason for the war was slavery, ...
Monica Casters took a trip to the future a few weeks ago: Suddenly, the eighth-grader was 30 years old, married, with a child and working at a job that paid her $93,000 a year. This was no dream, but it wasn't real, either. She was visiting Junior Achievement Finance Park, an educational center ...
