Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America’s first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven.

Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.

Beginning with Lenny's childhood in Boston and ending with his triumphant conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic when he was just twenty-five, MUSIC WAS IT draws readers into the energetic, passionate, challenging music-filled life of young Leonard Bernstein.

Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD tells of how one product can reveal the grand currents of world history in new ways.

A look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation.