Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

A biography of Queen Victoria, who became queen at the age of eighteen, and reigned over what became known as the "Victorian Era".

Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washingtoni Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work...

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out rejection: the space program didn't take women. It was a critical moment for the young girl, one that made her realize the world she lived in needed changing and that she had better try to make those changes happen. Clinton's life has been a thrilling series of firsts—First...

-- Who Is Bruce Springsteen? Who Is Stevie Wonder? By Jim Gigliotti; read by Dominic Hoffman. Listen to find out more about a talented boy who signed to Motown Records when he was just eleven years old; a musician, singer, and songwriter who has always defended civil and human rights; and one of the greatest musical superstars of our time.