Author: John Bankston

When Jacqueline Wilson was 16, she dropped out of school, a choice that could have been devastating. Instead, she soon began writing for a teen mag...

Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a stunt reporter for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women''s rights and trave...

Ten-year-old Ray Bradbury was impatient. He had just read the last installment of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars series. Not wanting to wait for the n...