Jodie Parachini

"A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today, with recognition"--

In 1925 Balto and Togo, two Siberian huskies, are part of the relay race that pushes through a blizzard to bring a needed diptheria serum from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, to save its children. Includes a fact sheet.

Flicker is going to visit Grampa and Nana Glowworm all by herself, and since she is a big girl now she is sure she does not need a map to find her way through the many zig-zaggy hallways of The Grand Bug Hotel--or does she?

"The arrival of donkeys, a zebra, monkeys, and a slew of other animals upends the narrator's plans for a very serious book"--

An overenthusiastic Axel makes several mistakes on his first day at the construction site, but the other trucks show him how they all work together to get the job done.

"Flicker is a young firefly looking for her glow on her birthday. Flicker's friends help her search and she asks other bugs in The Grand Bug Hotel."--