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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
4) Nora's ark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals. A flood is coming! When the water climbs to the rooftops, where will everybody go? To Grandma's house, of course, high up on a hill. Before long, the house is full of people, chickens, ducks, pigs, horses, cats, and even a cow. There's only one person missing -- Grandpa! This heartwarming story by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock is based...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Highlights in the history of the Winter Olympics from their inception in 1924 to today, including profiles of the Olympic athletes and information on the lesser-known winter sports. Also includes an Olympic almanac with information about each Olympiad.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 7
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
April Fools' Day, 1946: a sunny Hawaiian school day that started out as any other--until the ocean began to pull back, exposing the sea floor. Suddenly, someone looked up: now a wall of water was racing toward them. This was no April Fool's joke--it was a deadly tsunami. Learn about this and other tsunamis from history.
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English
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
100 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But when the harsh winter ended, the soldiers had survived, and marched away from Valley Forge more determined than ever.
11) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
What were once just boys' games become matters of life and death as Petros and his older brother Zola each wonder if, like their resistance-fighter cousin, they too can make a difference in a Nazi-occupied Greece.
13) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010 c2009
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur, must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 177 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
31 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before Jacques Cousteau became an internationally known oceanographer and champion of the seas, he was a curious little boy. In this biography, poetic text and paintings combine to create a portrait of Jacques Cousteau.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--Provided by publisher.
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