Martin Luther College

As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.

Provides a brief overview of the life and work of the American sculptor.

When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

Brief biographies of American artists along with reproductions of their works, timelines, and a glossary of art-related terms.

"What makes someone unusual? Inside this book, you'll find stories of extraordinary people like: 'Stagecoach Mary' Fields - 'one of the freest souls ever to draw a breath or a .38'; The Iceman - the most well-preserved human, found in the ice after 5,300 years; Sam Patch - who jumped Niagara Falls for $75; Helen Thayer - who walked to the North Pole alone; Roy Sullivan - who was struck by lightning seven times; and Larry Walters - who used forty-five...

A collection of photographs cataloging the contents of Hangar 17 at JFK International Airport, where artifacts from the World Trade Center were stored and preserved after the September 11, 2001, attacks, accompanied by essays reflecting on the events and the items.