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The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy מאת Kathryn Lasky Journey along with Dr. Meg Lowman, a scientist who, with the help of slings, suspended walkways, and mountain-climbing equipment, has managed to ascend into one of our planetÂ’s least accessible and most fascinating ecosystems--the rain-forest canopy. “Fresh in outlook and intriguing in detai...

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Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold (Great Episodes) מאת Ann Rinaldi A fourteen-year-old maid witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War....

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Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South (Great Episodes) מאת Ann Rinaldi In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll on her family and friends, and comes to understand the true nature of war....

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The Primrose Way מאת Jackie French Koller Living in a rough Puritan missionary settlement that borders an Indian village, sixteen-year-old Rebekah is forced to choose between two cultures when she falls in love with a defiant Pawtucket medicine man. “Issues about separation of church and state, the scandalous idea of thinking for oneself,...

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Patience, Princess Catherine: A Young Royals Book מאת Carolyn Meyer England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur's betrothed--the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon's fate becomes uncertain. Will the king and Catherine's parents arrange a marriage with Arthur's brother, Henry, or will sh...

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The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre (Great Episodes) מאת Ann Rinaldi Rachel Marsh is a servant in the Boston household of John Adams. But her loyalty to the Adams family is tested by her friendship with Matthew Kilroy, a British private who leads his soldiers in firing upon a mob of Boston citizens. ...

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Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!: The Story of December 7, 1941 מאת Theodore Taylor On December 7, 1941, Americans were stunned to learn that Japanese forces had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. In this engrossing and extensively researched account, Theodore Taylor examines both sides of the battle, taking a close look at the events leading up to it and providing compelling insi...

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Jenny of the Tetons (Great Episodes) מאת Kristiana Gregory Carrie Hill hates Indians. Indians killed her parents and ruined her life. With nowhere else to go, fifteen-year-old Carrie signs on to help care for the family of Beaver Dick Leigh, an English trapper. To her dismay, Carrie discovers that Beaver Dick's wife, Jenny, is a Shoshoni Indian! But as Car...

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Beware, Princess Elizabeth: A Young Royals Book מאת Carolyn Meyer Elizabeth Tudor's teenage years are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her father has beheaded her mother; her jealous half sister has her locked away in the Tower of London; and her only love has betrayed her in his own quest for the throne. Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending...

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Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book מאת Carolyn Meyer Though born without great beauty, wealth, or title, Anne Boleyn blossomed into a captivating woman. She used her wiles to win the heart of England's most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and to persuade him to defy everyone--including his own wife--to make her his new queen. But Anne's ambition proved...

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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials מאת Ann Rinaldi Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn't realize is that the girls are about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people. Susanna faces a painful choice. Should sh...

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Earthquake at Dawn (Great Episodes) מאת Kristiana Gregory It's April 18, 1906, and a powerful earthquake has just rocked San Francisco. Photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, survive the tragedy. Armed with Edith's camera, the two women set out to document the devastation--even as buildings crumble around them and soldiers promise to...

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The Secret of Sarah Revere מאת Ann Rinaldi Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a hero. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he'll tell no one--not his new wife, not his best friend, not even his trusted daughter. It seems everyone in her family has secrets. Sa...

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Andy Russell, NOT Wanted by the Police מאת David A. Adler While Andy's neighbors are away, strange things begin to happen in their house. Detective Andy Russell must prove that something suspicious is going on! ...

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The Coffin Quilt: The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys מאת Ann Rinaldi Fanny McCoy has lived in fear and anger ever since that day in 1878 when a dispute with the Hatfields over the ownership of a few pigs set her family on a path of hatred and revenge. From that day forward, along the ragged ridges of the West Virginia-Kentucky line, the Hatfields and the McCoys have ...

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An Acquaintance with Darkness (Great Episodes) מאת Ann Rinaldi Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of whom she can trust. Includes a reader's guide. ...

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Parachuting Hamsters and Andy Russell מאת David A. Adler Andy and Tamika can’t wait for a weekend of fun in the big city, but Tamika’s aunt Mandy has planned trips to boring museums and fancy restaurants. Even worse, someone is dropping hamsters off the top of Aunt Mandy’s building, causing trouble everywhere . . . and getting Andy blamed. It’s a ...

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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley (Great Episodes) מאת Ann Rinaldi Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, Phillis Wheatley--as she comes to be known--stuns her adopted country by becoming America's first published black poet. Includes a reader's guide. ...

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Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker מאת Carolyn Meyer At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief and the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker. But in 1861 Cynthia Ann Parker and her infant ...

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The Riddle of Penncroft Farm מאת Dorothea Jensen Lars Olafson moves with his parents to the old family farm near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to live with his aged aunt Cass. Lars is miserable--until he meets Geordie, a ghost whose stories of the Revolutionary War are as exciting as those of an eyewitness. When Aunt Cass dies suddenly, Lars is face...