What should you say when you answer the phone? Find out how good manners make the telephone a useful tool for everyone.

"This gorgeously illustrated picture book tells the story of a young Japanese boy who loses his dad in a tsunami."--

"Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of France. With expert skill, steady nerves, and steadfast...

Toni decides to have a potluck dinner party and calls each of her friends to bring an item, but because of background noise, they each bring the wrong thing!

Profiles the inventor from his early life in Scotland with his mother, who lost most of her hearing to an infection, to his later life as a teacher in Boston, and describes his work with Thomas Watson to invent the telephone.

A fact-filled reader shares engaging facts about telephones, from inventor Alexander Graham Bell's preference that answerers say "ahoy" to the higher power of today's smartphones compared to the first moon landing computers. --Publisher.

Your brother just hurt his leg badly. No adults are around to help. Do you know what to do? Dialing 911 can be scary, but you can be prepared. The scenarios and tips in this book will help you keep your cool.