When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. [...]
Junie B. Jones is having a rough day – no, scratch that, a rough week! First off, she is about to lose her first tooth. What will she even look like once it comes out? And what does the Tooth Fairy want all those teeth for anyway? Even worse, everyone in her class except for [...]
In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel is a war correspondent with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious Stasi agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia and East Germany [...]
In the kingdom of Middlefield, there is a tradition. On a princess’ sixteenth birthday, she is tied to a rock, kidnapped by a dragon, rescued by a prince, and lives happily ever after. But what happens when the prince is too afraid to fight, the princess wants to do the rescuing herself, and the dragon [...]
