Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy grew up just a stone’s throw from New York City, in a smallish industrial town on the Passaic River. His childhood consisted of thousands of baseball games with neighborhood kids, roaming the vast New Jersey Meadowlands, and inventing various “adventures.” More

  
Antietam and the Bloody Road
to Freedom (subtitle)
Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster, July 2009
In September 1862, two great Civil War armies faced each other across tiny Antietam Creek. General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army found itself vastly outnumbered, with retreat all but cut off by the Potomac River. more

 

The coat has changed very little in at least the last hundred years. You put one arm in each sleeve, then button the front to keep out the cold or rain. But in 1953, Howard C. Ross had a big idea.

This is a patent drawing for what invention?

Choose the answer below and click to find out if you are correct.

1. an overcoat for two people
2. a combination raincoat and tent
 3. a coat for a very fat person

 



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