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When Ruby lets go of his carriage, Max races down a hill, over a bump, up in the air, down between two trees, and back into the carriage which finally stops in a pile of leaves.

"Knocked off the cliff by a mountain sheep, a clump of snow rolls down the mountain gradually taking the appearance of an enormous and well-dressed snowman." --

Twelve-year-old Emily Soper avoids her mother's efforts to make her more ladylike by watching her father and his workers build fine carriages in Washington, D.C., but 1908 is a turbulent time and her father's livelihood threatened by racist neighbors and the growing popularity of automobiles. Includes historical note and recipes.

Martha and Helen decide to enter Wagstaff City's Go Green Go-Cart race. They do some research and visit the junkyard to find what they need to built a solar-powered cart. T.D. and Alice also visit he junkyard because they are making a wind-powered cart. Ronald and Reginald win the race with their cart "powered by a goldfish" but later they fight and crash into a post revealing that it is a lawnmower! T.D. and Alice are the real winners and Junkyard...