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Hardcover : $17.99 Buy	Mr. Williams Karen Barbour Henry Holt and Co. The powerful and personal story of one American childhood When Mr. Williams was a boy growing up in Arcadia, Louisiana, Calvin Coolidge was...

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Did Fleming Rescue Churchill?

A Research Puzzle

James Cross Giblin; illustrations by Erik Brooks Henry Holt and Co.

Jason is stuck with the most boring subject for a research paper— Alexander Fleming, the scientist who invented penicillin. Then he comes across the story...

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Abraham Lincoln Comes Home

Robert Burleigh; illustrations by Wendell Minor Henry Holt and Co.

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, the country grieved for the courageous president who had guided them through the Civil War. Over the course of...

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Paper Over Board : $9.95 Buy	Inside Access: Pirates Inside Access Philip Steele Kingfisher Get ready for an adventure with Inside Access: Pirates. In the company of Jake Rattlebones, a pirate guide who has explored the high seas, readers get...

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Claudette Colvin

Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose 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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Keeping Secrets

Mary E. Lyons Henry Holt and Co.

"A collection of seven literary biographies liberally sprinkled with brief quotations from the subjects’ diaries, written when they were young adults."...

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Soar, Elinor!

Tami Lewis Brown; Illustrated by François Roca 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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Neo Leo

The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci

Gene Barretta; illustrations by Gene Barretta Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books

In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu...

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Paper Over Board : $14.95 Buy	For Girls Only Everything Great About Being a Girl Laura Dower Feiwel & Friends Everything great about being a girl is packed into this fun and informative book.

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	1000 Years of Famous People Clive Gifford Kingfisher Meet the movers and shakers of the last millennium in this comprehensive and detailed look at the famous and the notorious, along with their achievements, and...

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Borrowed Names

Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters

Jeannine Atkins Henry Holt and Co.

As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two...

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Lost Worlds

John Howe Kingfisher

From the world of Aratta and Mohenjo-Daro to Atlantis and Camelot, this visually stunning book is a window with a view that takes readers on an historical,...

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Lincoln's Last Days

The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Bill O'Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman Henry Holt and Co.

With more than 1.5 million copies sold, Killing Lincoln deftly recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—of how one gunshot changed the...

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Hardcover : $21.95 Buy	Who Were the Founding Fathers? Two Hundred Years of Reinventing American History Steven H. Jaffe Henry Holt and Co. The history of our revolution will be one continued lye from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod, smote...

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Jazz

An American Saga

James Lincoln Collier Henry Holt and Co.

One thing we can be sure of is that jazz was invented in America. From the small sunlit barns that dotted the Louisiana countryside around the turn of the...

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The Man Who Made Time Travel

Kathryn Lasky; Pictures by Kevin Hawkes Melanie Kroupa Books

Who would solve one of the most perplexing scientific problems of all time? This dramatic picture-book biography brings to life – with illustrations...

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The Tree of Life

Charles Darwin

Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author 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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The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark

by Private Reubin Field, Member of the Corps of Discovery

Judith Edwards; Pictures by Sally Wern Comport Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A flavorful account to commemorate its bicentennial In 1803 a young farmer named Reubin Field enlisted for a journey of enormous import. Commissioned by...

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The Flower Hunter

William Bartram, America's First Naturalist

Deborah Kogan Ray; Pictures by the author Frances Foster Books

Little botanist / first naturalist Of John Bartram's nine children, it is William who best loves nature and wants to follow in his father's footsteps....

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Wise Guy

The Life and Philosophy of Socrates

M. D. Usher; pictures by William Bramhall Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Greek philosophy for kids “I know that I know nothing.” With this classic statement, uttered over two thousand years ago, Socrates set the standard for...

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The Surrender Tree

Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Margarita Engle Square Fish

The Surrender Tree is a Newbery Honor winning, lyrical history in poems, and this edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book....

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Trade Paperback : $9.99 Buy	Lifelines: Charles Darwin Lifelines by Alan Gibbons; illus. by Leo Brown Kingfisher Ten-year-old Henry has just gotten the job of his life—assistant to Charles Darwin on a voyage of the HMS Beagle. He will help Darwin collect all the creatures...

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Lincoln Shot

A President's Life Remembered

Barry Denenberg; Illustrated by Christopher Bing Square Fish

Noted children’s book biographer Barry Denenberg, award-winning illustrator Christopher Bing, and book designer Rich Deas collaborate on an intimate portrait...

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Trade Paperback : $12.99 Buy	Kingfisher Encyclopedia of Everything by Sean Callery, Clive Gifford, and Dr. Mike Goldsmith Kingfisher This amazing 320-page universe-in-a-book is the perfect reference for home, school, or anywhere there is a question to be explored. Arranged thematically into...

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