Don Brown

Don Brown’s previous books include Kid Blink Beats the World, Mack Made Movies and Across a Dark and Wild Sea. He lives on Long Island, New York.


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America Is Under Attack
Actual Times
Don Brown
Flash Point

One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 On the ten year anniversary of the...


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Gold! Gold from the American River!
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Don Brown
Flash Point

Gold Fever! The excitement, drive, and adrenaline of the gold rush, narrated by Don Brown and brought to life with his vivid watercolors.


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Let It Begin Here!
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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...


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All Stations! Distress!
Actual Times
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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Bright Path

Don Brown; Illustrated by the author
Square Fish

The story of an authentic American hero: the Native-American athlete Jim Thorpe, who grew up from a dirt-poor childhood to captivate the world at the 1912...


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The Train Jumper

Don Brown
A Deborah Brodie Book

OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great...


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The Notorious Izzy Fink

Don Brown
Roaring Brook Press

Sam Glodsky lives among the rough-and-tumble gangs on the streets of New York's Lower East Side. When 13-year-old Sam falls in with fearsome gangster Monk...


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Mack Made Movies

By Don Brown, illustrated by the author
Roaring Brook Press

Mack Sennett invented the Keystone Kops, filmed the first pie-in-the-face skit, and introduced Charlie Chaplin to the movies. Here Don Brown tells the story of...


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Kid Blink Beats the World

Don Brown, illustrated by the author
Roaring Brook Press

"It was all for a penny. They left their cramped and crowded tenement apartments for a penny. They scurried beside the pushcart peddlers for a penny. They...


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Across a Dark and Wild Sea

Don Brown; Illustrated by the author; Calligraphy by Deborah Nadel
Roaring Brook Press

Columcille was born in a remote corner of Ireland in the year 521. Legend has it that as a child, he was fed a cake filled with the letters of the alphabet,...


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