Monica Kulling

Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.

Harry Houdini was a great escape artist, but perhaps his greatest trick was becoming the famous magician that we have come to know. As a child, Houdini worked hard—and even quit school—to help support his family. But his dream always was to become a great magician and performer. He practiced day and night, thinking up new tricks and more and more dangerous stunts. His intense ambition paid off, and soon Harry Houdini became known worldwide!
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When Frank Zamboni, his brother Lawrence, and their cousin Pete built an ice skating rink in California in 1939, they struggled with the time consuming task of resurfacing the ice. For nine years, Frank worked on a machine in a shed behind the rink that would eventually become the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine still used at ice rinks today.

"Aunt Pearl arrives one day pushing a shopping cart full of her worldly goods. Her sister Rose has invited her to come live with her family. Six-year-old Marta is happy to meet her aunt, who takes her out to look for treasure on garbage day, and who shows her camp group how to decorate a coffee table with bottle caps. But almost immediately, Pearl and Rose start to clash--over Pearl's belongings crammed into the house, and over Rose's household rules....

Highlights the early life of Garrett Morgan who was born the son of freed slaves and with a determination to have a better life, began inventing things. Highlights Garrett's invention of a safety hood that was rejected because it was made by an African American, but when a fiery explosion occurred in a tunnel under Lake Erie, it proved to be lifesaving. And years later, it was used by the military during World War I.