Aileen Weintraub

Profiles fifty musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, and activists who made great strides at an early age, including Helen Keller, Ruby Bridges, Malala Yousafzai, Bobby Fischer, and Jazz Jennings.

Provides a history of the Alcatraz Island Lighthouse, the West Coast's first lighthouse, completed in 1854.

A guide to some of America's most significant national parks reveals lesser-known points of interest and trivia about such sites as the Great Smoky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Denali.