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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Rosie and the Rustlers Roy Gerrard; Illustrated by the author Sunburst Paperbacks Rosie and her wranglers meet up with Greasy Ben and his gang in this rollicking tale of adventure. "The Old West has never been more appealing than in this...

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Where Heroes Hide

Helen Recorvits Frances Foster Books

"Recorvits recreates a slice of bouhood in the summer of 1956, twining themes of friendship, family loyalty and heroism around a series of escapades . . . a...

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Nim and the War Effort

Milly Lee; Pictures by Yangsook Choi Sunburst Paperbacks

"Details place the affecting story in a real, not idealized, America." --Kirkus Reviews "It’s the last day of the newspaper drive and Nim, a...

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Tadpole

Ruth White Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A funny and moving story set in Kentucky It’s the beginning of summer 1955, and though her family is struggling financially, Carolina’s mama still indulges...

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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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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	The Flimflam Man Darleen Bailey Beard; Pictures by Eileen Christelow Farrar, Straus and Giroux On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the...

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Boxes for Katje

Candace Fleming; Pictures by Stacey Dressen-McQueen 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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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	A Big Cheese for the White House The True Tale of a Tremendous Cheddar Candace Fleming; Pictures by S. D. Schindler Square Fish Based on a true moment in American history, this funny picture book celebrates the ingenuity and community spirit of one small New England town as it attempts...

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Maggie's Amerikay

Barbara Timberlake Russell; Pictures by Jim Burke Melanie Kroupa Books

“In Amerikay,” Maggie’s da has told her, “we will start anew.” It’s 1898, and Maggie McCrary and her family have just crossed the ocean to settle in New...

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I Could Do That!

Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote

Linda Arms White; Pictures by Nancy Carpenter Melanie Kroupa Books

Full of humor and spunk – just like Esther! “I could do that,” says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the...

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Operation Clean Sweep

Darleen Bailey Beard Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Mom for mayor! Election day is fast approaching, and twelve-year-old Cornelius Sanwick discovers a secret: his mom is running for mayor! That would be...

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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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Blackbeard's Last Fight

Eric A. Kimmel; Pictures by Leonard Everett Fisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cabin boy Jeremy Hobbs knows the horror stories about Blackbeard the pirate. In 1718, the man is notorious for plundering ships and has recently blockaded the...

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The Story of Jonas

Maurine F. Dahlberg Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks he’ll never try to escape. He knows...

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Hardcover : $17.00 Buy	A Subway for New York David Weitzman Farrar, Straus and Giroux A behind-thescenes look at an underground miracle On October 27, 1904, the first section of the most famous subway system in the world was opened for...

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Guttersnipe Jane Cutler, Pictures by Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux Early in the twentieth century, ten-year-old Ben and his family live in the poorest part of their city with other Jewish immigrants. There is never enough...

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Frame-up on the Bowery

A Houdini & Nate Mystery

Houdini and Nate Mysteries

Tom Lalicki Farrar, Straus and Giroux

During Yuletide 1911, a brutal Midtown murder shocks the denizens of New York City. After a mutual friend is wrongly accused of being the killer, young sleuth...

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Earthquake

Milly Lee; Pictures by Yangsook Choi Sunburst Paperbacks

This morning the earth shook and threw us from our beds. We were not hurt, just stunned. Drawers spilled, dishes crashed, pots and pans clanged as they...

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Liberty!

Alan Drummond Sunburst Paperbacks

A symbol of freedom – the Statue of Liberty Here is the story of the exciting day in 1886 when the Statue of Liberty was unveiled to the world. A...

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The Gardener

Sarah Stewart; Illustrated by David Small 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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George Washington's Teeth

Deborah Chandra, Madeleine Comora; Illus. by Brock Cole Square Fish

A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first president.

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The Secret Cave

Discovering Lascaux

Emily Arnold McCully 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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Danger in the Dark

A Houdini & Nate Mystery

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Tom Lalicki Square Fish

Nate has a deadly mystery to solve in his very own house, and Harry Houdini is going to help him solve it.

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Energy Island

How one community harnessed the wind and changed their world

Allan Drummond 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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