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Paiute Princess
The Story of Sarah Winnemucca

Frances Foster Books
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her...
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Being Teddy Roosevelt

Square Fish
Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to...
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Energy Island
How one community harnessed the wind and changed their world

Frances Foster Books
Hold onto your hats! It's windy on the Danish island of Samso. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now proudly call their home Energy Island. At a...
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Puss in Boots

Square Fish
The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller’s son are portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to...
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The Eagle
The Roman Britain Trilogy

Square Fish
The bestselling classic is now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features
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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice

Square Fish
Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...
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The Silver Branch
The Roman Britain Trilogy

Square Fish
More than a century after The Eagle of the Ninth leaves off, two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British emperor....
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The Lantern Bearers
The Roman Britain Trilogy

Square Fish
The barbarians are coming! The Lantern Bearers is the 1959 winner of the Carnegie Medal in Literature.
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Soar, Elinor!

Melanie Kroupa Books
Elinor Smith was six when she first went for a ride in a rickety “flying machine,” and she was just sixteen when she earned her aviation license in 1928. But...
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The Secret Cave
Discovering Lascaux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not...

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The Gardener

Square Fish
By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to...
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I, Juan de Pareja

Square Fish
The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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The Wall
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Frances Foster Books
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...
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Boxes for Katje

Melanie Kroupa Books
Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinary After World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like...
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The Tree of Life
Charles Darwin

Frances Foster Books
In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly...
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Is It Night or Day?

Melanie Kroupa Books
It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon:...
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A Day of Pleasure
Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Sunburst Paperbacks
An ALA Notable Book. A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.
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Under the Persimmon Tree

Square Fish
Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The Great Turkey Walk

Sunburst Paperbacks
Yeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys? Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but...
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How I Learned Geography

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father...
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The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams’s fifth-grade class who doesn’t mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved...
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Tasting the Sky
A Palestinian Childhood

Melanie Kroupa Books
Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my...
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The Clay Marble

Sunburst Paperbacks
Fleeing war-torn Cambodia in 1980, Dara, her mother, and her older brother find sanctuary in a refugee settlement on the Thailand border, but when fighting...
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Upon the Head of the Goat
A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

Sunburst Paperbacks
Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.