Calista Plummer: 19 books

Vincent Van Gogh was a painter who created hundreds of paintings and thousands of sketches throughout his life. Best known for his sunflower paintings, and for having cut off his ear, Van Gogh suffered from depression most of his life. This was probably made worse by his poor eating habits and his...

"Dem Bones, dem bones, dem dry bones." You've heard the song. But what really are bones? Are they living things? Or are they just piles of stuff that got hard? The quick easy answers are: Things in your body, yes, and yes. Bones are the levers in your body. They attach to your muscles so...

One of the most famous pirates to sail the seas, was Mary Reed, a female pirate! Some people spell her last name Read, but since Mary couldn't read or write, it made no difference to her. Mary was born into a sailing family. Her father was captain of an English trading vessel. Her mother was an uncommon...

Clara Barton was eleven. It was a great time in her life. Most of her family was moving!Clara, her father and her mother had moved to a new home three years ago.Now her older brothers and sisters were moving. They were coming to the same valley. They would all be together again.Clara loved her brothers...

It was 1856. Abbie, her mother and her sisters were eating dinner.Suddenly the kitchen became very dark. The wind rattled the windows. The shutters slammed against the lighthouse.Abbie ran to the window. The sky was dark."Is it a storm?" Abbie's mother asked? She was very scared."Yes," Abbie...