Gloria rising -- Lunch walks among us -- 26 Fairmount Avenue -- Attack of the 50-ft cupid -- The Fran that time forgot -- Great-Grandpa's in the litter box -- Zap! I'm a mind reader -- The chalk box kid -- A spy in the White House -- A ghost named Wanda -- Through the medicine cabinet -- The skeleton in the Smithsonian -- Fireworks at the FBI -- Piper Reed, clubhouse queen -- To the top! : climbing the world's highest mountain -- Volcanoes inside and out -- Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas -- Day of the dead -- Chinese New Year -- Shipwreck search : discovery of the H. L. Hunley -- Bessie Coleman : daring to fly -- What do authors do? -- Hottest, coldest, highest, deepest -- Frogs -- A picture book of Frederick Douglass -- Animal defenses.