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Down the Colorado

John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer

Deborah Kogan Ray Frances Foster Books

Although John Wesley Powell’s minister father always wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, young Wes had different plans for his future. Enraptured by the...

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Sea Cows, Shamans, and Scurvy

Alaska's First Naturalist: Georg Wilhelm Steller

Ann Arnold Farrar, Straus and Giroux

On June 4, 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller set sail from Avacha Bay in Siberia on the St. Peter, under the command of Vitus Bering. The crew was bound for America...

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Hardcover : $19.99 Buy	Fooled You! Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years Elaine Pascoe; illustrated by Laurie Keller Henry Holt and Co. Hoaxes are meant to fool the world—and some people fall for them. Would you? Crop circles. Aliens on earth. Fairies caught on film. Giant cats. What...

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Manjiro

The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1841, Japan had been closed to the outside world for 250 years, and anyone who tried to return to the country after leaving it could be executed. So when...

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Emperors of the Ice

A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13

Richard Farr Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard has always dreamt of becoming an explorer. So in the spring of 1910, when Captain Robert Falcon Scott offers young “Cherry”...

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For Boys Only

The Biggest, Baddest Book Ever

Marc Aronson and HP Newquist Feiwel & Friends

Hey, Boys! Want to have some fun? Maybe learn how to land an airplane in an emergency? Or fight off an alligator? Escape from being tied up? How about...

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Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	The Great Art Scandal Solve the Crime, Save the Show! Anna Nilsen Kingfisher Find the rogue painting and save the exhibition and the City Gallery! Children will have hours of fun exercising their powers of observation as they spot the...

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Great Discoveries & Amazing Adventures

The Stories of Hidden Marvels and Lost Treasures

Claire Llewellyn Kingfisher

Great Discoveries & Amazing Adventures looks at the moment of discovery and the deeper stories behind some of the world's most astonishing finds....

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Trade Paperback : $6.99 Buy	The Best Book of Pirates The Best Book of Barnaby Howard Kingfisher Stunning artwork depicts the lives and daredevil raids of famous piratessuch as Blackbeard, Madame Cheng, and Captain Kidd, while clever cutaways and...

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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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Paper Over Board : $12.99 Buy	Navigators: Pirates Navigators by Peter Chrisp Kingfisher Navigate your way through a fantastic range of subjects with this visually spectacular new series. Every spread is brimming with lively text, amazing...

Trade Paperback : $3.99 Buy	Kingfisher Readers L4: Pirates Kingfisher Readers by Philip Steele Kingfisher Climb aboard, mateys, for more swashbuckling than has ever been seen in the pages of an early reader. Starting with who became pirates and why, and covering...

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Cats to the Rescue

True Tales of Heroic Felines

Marilyn Singer; illustrations by Jean Cassels Henry Holt and Co.

Do cats really have a sixth sense? War hero, world traveler, adventurer, bodyguard—not the first descriptions that come to mind when we think of cats. But...

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Sky Sailors

True Stories of the Balloon Era

David L. Bristow Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Exploring the early years of human flight in balloons, from 1783 to the early 1900s.

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Tibet Through the Red Box

Through The Red Box

Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

A father's diary, an artist's memoir. By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys. While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which...

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Flying to the Moon

An Astronaut's Story

Michael Collins Sunburst Paperbacks

Astronaut Michael Collins adds a revised chapter to the extraordinary story of his training and participation in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 flights.

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Adventurous Women

Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference

Penny Colman Henry Holt and Co.

The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century. Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanical species. During...

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Hardcover : $19.99 Buy	The Plant Hunters True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth Anita Silvey Melanie Kroupa Books Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and...

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All Stations! Distress!

April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank

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Don Brown Flash Point

THE "UNSINKABLE" MEETS THE UNTHINKABLE -- A gripping acount of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic. It took 4,000 men to build it, 23 tons of animal...

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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	Let It Begin Here! April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began Actual Times Don Brown Flash Point ONE DAY THAT CHANGED A NATION A nonfiction master brings the start of the American Revolution to life. A 26-year-old King George II found himself in...

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Patterns in Peru An Adventure in Patterning Cindy Neuschwander; illustrations by Bryan Langdo Henry Holt and Co. Matt and Bibi unravel a pattern to discover a lost city The Zills are visiting Peru to study the mysterious lost city of Quwi when Matt and Bibi stumble...

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Vampire Queen

by Richard Platt, illustrated by Steve Stone Kingfisher

What would happen if the Golden Age pirate, Blackbeard, fought the dashing Muslim pirate Barbarossa? Who would win and why? Who would be the ultimate fighting...

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