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Snowshoe Thompson
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A fictionalized account of how skiing came to the United States. Young Danny is disappointed when he learns that heavy snow means that the letter he has written to his father, who is away mining for gold, will not reach his dad until spring. Determined to get the letter delivered, postman and Norwegian immigrant John Thompson creates a pair of ...
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Prairie Friends
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Betsy loves the prairie, but it is a lonely place. When a family moves nearby, Betsy can't wait to make friends with the new girl, Emmeline. But Emmeline misses the city. Can Betsy helkp her learn to love her new home? Age 2-4
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North Pole, South Pole
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Dry air swirls around empty frozen lands, glaciers move slowly across the waters, winter darkness envelopes the areas day and night. Still, there is life at the poles -- polar bears and penguins, scientists and explorers, berries and mosses. Learn how seasons affect life in the Arctic and Antarctic, how wildlife survives, and what scientists can ...
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Clara and the Bookwagon
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Papa thinks that farm people have better things to do than to learn to read. But when the traveling bookwagon arrives with a persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, Papa realizes that he must change his mind.
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Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World
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This account of the first circumnavigation around the world tells the story of Ferdinand Magellan, who in 1519 set out to find a better trade route from Spain to Asia and the distant Spice Islands. Although Magellan did not complete the voyage--he was killed on the Pacific island of Mactan--the expedition he mounted changed the course of human ...
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Death Valley: A Day in the Desert
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Describes the desert habitat of Death Valley and the plants and animals that live there.
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She's Been Working on the Railroad
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An account of the important contributions made by the many women who have worked on the railroads from the mid-1800s to the present day. Readers will meet such women as Sarah Clark Kidder, who became the first female railroad executive in 1901; Mary Pennington, who designed improvements for refrigerated railroad cars; countless women who began ...
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Cars
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Nancy Smiler Levinson, Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)
Today cars fill our streets and highways. But how did they get here? It took years of trial and error before the first motorcar was created. Learn how cars changed the lives of people everywhere. Time line included.
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Turn of the Century: Our Nation One Hundred Years Ago
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Say Cheese!
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A monkey keeps trying to take a photograph of a giraffe couple, but the other animals insist on pushing their way into the picture.
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Your Friend, Natalie Popper
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In the summer of 1946 Natalie looks forward to going to camp for the first time and being together with her friend Corinne but things do not turn out as she anticipates.
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Second Chance # 94
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Thomas Alva Edison Great Inventor
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He invented the movie camera, the phonograph, the light bulb, and hundreds of other things that would change the world forever. But did you know that the brilliant Thomas Edison was called "addled" and backward in school--and that he was largely self-taught? The new biography brings to life one of the greatest inventors of all time. Photos.
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I Lift My Lamp
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A biography of the American poet, activist for humane causes, and friend to immigrants, who authored the noble words now inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
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The First Women Who Spoke Out
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Presents the lives and achievements of six women--Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone--whose activities to earn rights for women took great courage as they faced ridicule and scorn.
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Sweet Notes, Sour Nntes
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David, a struggling young musician, learns that perseverance is the only way to succeed in learning to play the violin.
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World of Her Own
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Sixteen-year-old Annie, moderately deaf since the age of seven, is terrified at the prospect of leaving her special school to attend a public high school.
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Chuck Yeager, the Man Who Broke the Sound Barrier: A Science Biography
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A biography of the Air Force test pilot who in 1947 was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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Rain Forests
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Business
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Discusses women who have been successful in business careers including running a canning factory, owning and managing a bank, heading an ad agency, and producing TV shows.
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Getting High in Natural Ways: An Infobook for Young People of All Ages
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Annie's World
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Annie, who has been nearly deaf since she was seven, must leave her school and be mainstreamed into a public high school, an adjustment which she finds difficult but ultimately not impossible to handle.
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Lets Go to the Beach
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Feeling Great: Reaching Out to Life, Reaching in to Yourself--Without Drugs
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Chuck Yeager
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