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Revolver

Square Fish
A menacing stranger. Stolen gold. And a loaded gun.
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Let It Begin Here!
April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began
Actual Times

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!
April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank
Actual Times

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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Newes from the Dead

Square Fish
Back from the dead! Wronged, hanged, awake and in darkness, a maidservant in 1650 England is gripped by fear, and by memories of the only crime she’s ever...
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Cat Among the Pigeons
A Cat Royal Adventure

Square Fish
The second in the Cat Royal adventure series, featuring orphan and sleuth Catherine “Cat” Royal and her adventures in the streets and theaters of 18th-century...
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Two Miserable Presidents
The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War

Square Fish
May 22, 1856: A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA WALKS INTO THE SENATE CHAMBER, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to...
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King George: What Was His Problem?
The Whole Hilarious Story of the Revolution

Square Fish
KING GEORGE NEVER DID UNDERSTAND AMERICANS “Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn’t one of them.” What it is,...
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The Diamond of Drury Lane
A Cat Royal Adventure

Square Fish
MYSTERY, TREASURE, AND A LIFE ON THE STAGE.  The first episode of the adventures of Cat Royal is a big, fat juicy read.
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1968
New York Times

Roaring Brook Press
1968, THE YEAR AMERICA GREW UP From racial and gender equality fights to the struggle against the draft and the Vietnam war, in 1968 Americans asked...
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Silent Music

A Neal Porter Book
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen. Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but...

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Hitler's Canary

A Deborah Brodie Book
"My brother stood up so quickly he almost knocked Mama over. 'Why aren't you doing something? Do you know what the British are calling us? Hitler's canary!...
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Mack Made Movies

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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Emil and Karl

Square Fish
A remarkable suspense novel first published in 1938, it anticipates the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust.
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What If You Met a Knight?

Roaring Brook Press
Forget jousts and quests and dragons—a real knight had real work to do, lots of mouths to feed, and trouble could ride over the hill at any moment. Castles...
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The Old Country

Roaring Brook Press
From the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal comes a memorable new work, a novel of singular insight and imagination that transports readers to the Old Country,...