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Missing on Superstition Mountain
Superstition Mountain Mysteries

Square Fish
It’s summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore...
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Bridge of Time

Feiwel & Friends
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting...
  
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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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Kingfisher Readers L5: Ancient Egyptians
Kingfisher Readers

Kingfisher
"In ancient Egypt, there was a secret valley." So begins this in-depth look at one of the most fascinating of all nonfiction subjects, the Ancient Egyptians....
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Titanic
The search for the lost fugitives

Kingfisher
Readers become investigators in this interactive mystery about one of history’s most ill-fated voyages. While looking through documents connected with the...
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All About America: The Industrial Revolution
All About America

Kingfisher
Be part of history in action! Travel back in time to the most exciting and inspiring periods in American history. Action-packed and historically accurate, All...
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All About America: A Nation of Immigrants
All About America

Kingfisher
Be part of history in action! Travel back in time to the most exciting and inspiring periods in American history. Action-packed and historically accurate, All...
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All About America: The Industrial Revolution
All About America

Kingfisher
Be part of history in action! Travel back in time to the most exciting and inspiring periods in American history. Action-packed and historically accurate, All...
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All About America: Explorers, Trappers, and Pioneers
All About America

Kingfisher
Be part of history in action! Travel back in time to the most exciting and inspiring periods in American history. Action-packed and historically accurate, All...
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I Wonder Why Greeks Built Temples
and Other Questions about Ancient Greece
I Wonder Why

Kingfisher
This informative reference answers all kinds of questions, large and small, that children ask about this ancient culture, from "Who ran the first marathon?" to...

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Breaking Stalin's Nose

Henry Holt and Co.
One of Horn Book’s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is...
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Square Fish
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green...
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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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Letters from Rifka

Square Fish
A deeply felt, deeply personal story of immigration from beloved Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse.
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We Are Witnesses
Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Square Fish
Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.
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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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Revolver

Square Fish
A menacing stranger. Stolen gold. And a loaded gun.
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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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Shakespeare's Secret

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A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
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An Elephant in the Garden

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Lizzie and Karl’s mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary...
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Puss in Boots

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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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Being Teddy Roosevelt

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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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Lewis and Clark and Me
A Dog's Tale

Henry Holt and Co.
A dog's account of one of the most extraordinary expeditions of all time. "Dog and man can fit together like no others do. Lewis and I had that...
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For Girls Only
Everything Great About Being a Girl

Feiwel & Friends
Everything great about being a girl is packed into this fun and informative book.