As a young woman in the nineteenth-century, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler could not help end slavery by becoming a lawyer or legislator. But she could write-and publish-her passionate opinions. And, beginning when she was just sixteen, that's what she did. Hers was a voice out of the "backwoods" wilderness of the Michigan Territory, laying the groundwork for Emancipation. Elizabeth practiced Quaker modesty-her poems and essays were published under a variety of pseudonyms. But in less than five years, no "anonymous" woman was better known in the cause of abolition. This is her story. It is also...

When Kwame Norman awakens to a nightmare of frosty bats, Nouse-Mouse (the virtual computer mouse from the magical land of KaleidoKen) identifies them as Time Vampires. These vampires, he informs Kwame, don't suck blood--they suck time. Kwame's father, a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has become one of their prime victims. And now they've turned their attention to feasting on the minutes and hours of Kwame's life. To save his father and himself, Kwame must hazard a kaleidoscope adventure. He barely has time to panic before Nouse-Mouse sends him and...