Lucille Recht Penner

Discusses the eating habits, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims in the colony of New Plymouth.

Examines the origins of American cooking including instructions for thirty authentic recipes.

Presents the origins and history of thriteen holidays, such as Columbus Day, Veterans Day, and Halloween. Also includes songs, maps, speeches, handicraft, and recipes.

Describes how tornadoes and hurricanes form and the damage they do.

Tired of everyone calling him slow, Teddy practices his running and keeps track of the time it takes to run to the school bus or the store as he prepares to run a big race.

Something has been making tracks in Oscar's back yard and eating his mother's red flowers, so Oscar and his friends devise a plan to get a clearer set of prints and compare them to pictures in a library book.