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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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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...

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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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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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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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Ste-e-e-e-eamboat a-Comin'!

Jill Esbaum; Pictures by Adam Rex Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Go back in time to a sleepy Mississippi River town The townfolk of a small village on the banks of the upper Mississippi come vividly alive at the sound of...

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Landed

Milly Lee; Pictures by Yangsook Choi Frances Foster Books

Sun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns him, though, that passage will not be...

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Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present

Nancy Garden Farrar, Straus and Giroux

What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening...

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Marvelous Mattie

How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father’s toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just...

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Rip Van Winkle's Return

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

Rip Van Winkle is an idler who would rather starve for a penny than work for a pound, and his wife is constantly nagging him. In search of peace, Rip heads off...

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The Escape of Oney Judge

Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

When General George Washington is elected the first President of the United States, his wife chooses young Oney Judge, a house slave who works as a seamstress...

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Hardcover : $17.99 Buy	Paiute Princess The Story of Sarah Winnemucca Deborah Kogan Ray 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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Bringing Ezra Back

Cynthia DeFelice Farrar, Straus and Giroux

September 1840 marks five months since twelve-year-old Nathan Fowler’s life-threatening encounter with Weasel, the heartless man who stalked Nathan like a wild...

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I Heard God Talking to Me

William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings

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One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to...

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Being Teddy Roosevelt

Claudia Mills; Pictures by R. W. Alley Square Fish

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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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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Underground

Jean Ferris Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1839, visitors from miles around come to Kentucky to tour Mammoth Cave. But sixteen-year-old Charlotte, the maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, doesn’t understand...

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Anne Hutchinson's Way

Jeannine Atkins; Pictures by Michael Dooling Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1634, young Susanna Hutchinson sailed from England with her family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they hoped to practice their religion freely. But...

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