New Releases by Jean Lee

As they approach each dwelling, the animals try to guess from a rhyme who lives there.

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship''s captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

Describes the discovery and exploration of the river which supplies water and electric power to the Panama Canal, and tells of the problems of construction, development, and operation of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal.

Adventures of the piratical Elizabethan mariner who contributed enormously to the growth of sixteenth-century English sea power.

A biography of the man who rose from debt to amass a small fortune, and became the driving force behind the successful laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

In 1607, a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia.

Young adult biography of Maury, US naval officer and oceanographer from Virginia who resigned his position when Virginia seceeded and became Commander of the Confederate States Navy and spokesperson for the Southern cause in England.

At the height of a rebellion in a South American country, a young woman is left in the family compound just miles from a the site of a fierce battle. Her only companion is Gina, a long-term family servant. Nearly a month earlier, they heard someone knocking on the gate and found a wounded soldier there. They''ve been nursing him since, and it appears that his sight is nearly restored, but he still can''t remember who he is or what cause he supported.

Christmas is coming and everyone in the Brown family is getting ready. Father just brought home the Santa suit as he promised Mother, and decides to hide it in the toy box, because no one looks at old toys just before Christmas. Mother thinks of another place for the box, and then the children discover the box and must find a place to hide it.

When Joan tries to double for her cousin, the spoiled Lucile, she has to run the gauntlet of a ... maid's all-seeing eyes. And then there's Lucile's "man" to be fooled. And then Lucile's grandmother comes! And Joan meets the domineering old lady without any warning. --