Gale Eaton: 3 books
by Gale Eaton, Phillip Hoose
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence. The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions—making money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding...
by Gale Eaton, Phillip Hoose
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
*2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner*
The earth shakes and cracks open. Volcanoes erupt. Continents freeze, bake, and flood. Droughts parch the land. Wildfires and hundred-year storms consume anything in their paths. Invisible clouds of disease and pestilence probe for victims....
The Education of Alice M. Jordan
Navigating a Career in Children's Librarianship
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
A biography of Alice M. Jordan, who headed children’s work at the Boston Public Library (BPL) from 1902 to 1940, is long overdue. Daughter of a Maine sea captain and a Massachusetts schoolteacher, she was one of the pioneering generation of children’s librarians, women who entered the field when...