הוצאת Mitchell Lane Publishers
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George Washington Carver realized his love for plants and nature at a very young age. While still a child, he would spend hours in the woods and in his garden caring for his young plants. Soon he became known as the Plant Doctor, a distinction that stuck with him the rest of his life. Carver worked ...
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A Brief Political and Geographic History of Latin America: Where Are Gran Colombia, La Plata, and Dutch Guiana? (Places in Time/a Kid's Historic Guide ... the Changing Names and Places of the World)
מאת Earle Rice Jr.
Where are Gran Colombia, La Plata, and Dutch Guiana? And where are New Granada, the Isle of the True Cross, and the River of Silver? What makes them important? And why should anyone care about them? The answers to all these questions and many more nestle between the covers of this small book. Few t...
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Miley Cyrus has a smile so big that it lights up her entire face. That s why her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, nicknamed her Smiley Miley. This young lady is not only a happy person with a bubbly personality, she is also a very talented actress and musician. Her big break came in 2006 when Disney Channel ai...
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Charles Darwin and The Origin of the Species (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained)
מאת Jim Whiting
As a young man in England, Charles Darwin had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. Then he was asked to go on a long ocean voyage. Boarding the ship Beagle in 1831, he spent nearly five years sailing around the world. He returned with one of the most important ideas in the history of science:...
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When Keith Urban first came to Nashville, few people believed he could really make it in the business. After all, what does a mate from the Land Down Under really know about American country music? Keith didn t listen to these naysayers. He loved country music and he knew he could play it and sing ...
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Care for a Pet Sugar Glider (How to Convince Your Parents You Can) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Amie Jane Leavitt
What can glide through the air, climb up your arm as if it were a tree branch, carry its baby in a pouch, and even tuck itself deep down inside your shirt pocket? No, it s not a bird. It s not a monkey, kangaroo, or mouse, either. The animal that can do all of these things is a sugar glider. If you ...
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The year 1849 was an important one for Elizabeth Blackwell. After two years of intense studying, she finally received her diploma from Geneva Medical College. This was a milestone not only in her life, but in the field of medicine as a whole. After all, Elizabeth was the first woman in the world eve...
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A childhood filled with dance lessons, modeling work, and small parts in plays fueled Corbin Bleu s dream to become a full-time actor and it didn t take long for that dream to be realized. At age sixteen, Bleu was cast in the Discovery Kids TV series Flight 29 Down; soon after, he won the part of ba...
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When a young African-American seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white passenger, she turned the smoldering civil rights movement into a firestorm. For years, blacks in the South had seen their civil liberties stolen through segregation la...
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Leif Eriksson is arguably the best known of all those fierce, seafaring adventurers known as Vikings. His renown eclipses even that of his father, Erik the Red, the founder of Greenland. In 1000 CE, Leif seized fame and an enduring place in history as the first European to land in North America almo...
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When Stephen Crane saw boundaries, he didn ’t dawdle and wait for someone to help him inside.He just jumped the fence. This spirit is evident in the Civil War novel that he's famous for, The Red Badge of Courage. He was only twenty-one when he wrote the book,and he dared to tell the story even t...
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Extreme Snowboarding with Lindsey Jacobellis (A Robbie Reader) (Extreme Sports) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Claire O'Neal
At ten years old, Lindsey Jacobellis first picked up a snowboard after watching her big brother try it out. Soon she was racing the older boys down the slopes and beating them. Today, Lindsey is the world s most successful extreme sports competitor in boardercross a turning, jumping, heart-stopping ...
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For almost 3,000 years, The Iliad and The Odyssey have thrilled people with tales of adventure in ancient Greece. The stories of Helen and Paris, the Greek gods, the Trojan War, Achilles and of Odysseus' ten years quest to return home after the war are known all over the world among all cultures. Bu...
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David Ortiz is one of today s hottest baseball stars. This powerful hitter led his team, the Boston Red Sox, to their first World Series in more than 85 years. However, Ortiz was not always a star. He was let go from several teams before coming to Boston, and he even considered quitting the major le...
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Millions of fans know Ashley Tisdale as the rich, stuck-up Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical series. Like Sharpay, Ashley is a talented actress and singer. But unlike Sharpay, Ashley hasn t always lived the glamorous life. As she was growing up in New Jersey, Ashley wasn t even wishing to be ...
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From the moment Europeans stumbled across North America at the end of the fifteenth century, monarchs and investors sought to exploit the land s riches. With high expectations, colonists sailed across the Atlantic, seeking a better life and perhaps even fortune. But life in America was harder than t...
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Everywhere across the United States, children from other countries are joining American classrooms. How can their classmates prepare? Learning about the culture, geography, and history of a new student s native country can help smooth the transition. Greeting the student with a few words in his or h...
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Anne Frank was bright, cheerful, and full of hope when her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The family, who were Jewish, had left Germany because Adolf Hitler, the country s leader, was trying to kill as many Jews as possible. Soon the Germans invaded their new country. Anne, her family...
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Growing up in rural Oklahoma, Toby Keith was raised with many traditional American values: a strong work ethic, patriotism, and devotion to family. At a young age, he gained a love for country music. He received his first guitar at age eight and started learning basic melodies and writing his own mu...
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Few people recall the name of Eirik Thorvaldsson, who began life in Jaederen, Norway, around 950. When he was nine years old, his father killed a man or maybe two and was forced to flee with his family to Iceland. Young Eirik grew up in the harsh environs of that wind-swept isle in the North Atlanti...
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Marco Polo, the first European to travel to China and return to write about his adventures, was born in Venice in 1254. Marco’s father had left on a journey to Asia before the boy was born. Marco did not see his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, until fifteen years later. In 1271 the thr...
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While growing up in Tappahannock, Virginia, Chris Brown would spend hours listening to the R&B music his parents played on the radio. Inspired by multitalented artists such as Michael Jackson, Chris first dreamed of becoming a professional rapper. But a funny thing happened on the way to being his h...
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At age fifteen, Rihanna received the break that most people only dream about: A chance meeting with a popular producer in her home country of Barbados quickly led her down the path to stardom. Within months, she auditioned for Def Jam s CEO Jay-Z. Hours later, she signed a record deal that changed h...
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The Life and Times of Leonard Bernstein: The World's Greatest Composers (Masters of Music)
מאת Jim Whiting
When Leonard Bernstein died in 1990 at the age of 72, one of his admirers said he was actually 288 because he led four separate lives: as a conductor, a composer, a pianist and a teacher. No other American musician has ever had such a diverse career.
A sickly boy, Bernstein discovered music wh... |
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Losing made Chris Daughtry a winner. The American Idol contestant s surprising elimination from the show initially left fans and Daughtry stunned and bitterly disappointed. He had begun to believe the fan sites that were predicting he would win it all. Finally, it had seemed, all those years of sing...
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In 481 CE, the Salian Franks crowned Clovis I their king. At the age of fifteen, the young monarch set about uniting all the Franks barbarian tribes that inhabited much of the region that became modern-day France and Germany. A fierce warrior and an astute administrator, he expanded his originally m...
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Are you looking for a unique pet? You may just want to consider owning one of nature s most reliable creatures the racing pigeon. Racing pigeons are very intelligent, and they have the ability to fly far and fast. They can be trained to return to their home from anywhere in the world. They can even ...
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Christina Aguilera began performing in talent shows when she was six years old. She appeared on "Star Search" at the age of eight. At ten she sang the National Anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers and at twelve, she joined the cast of "The New Mickey Mouse Club." If she seems in a hurry, she is. "I’...
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As a boy, Joe Flacco tossed footballs around in his backyard, pretending that he was a football legend like Joe Montana or Barry Sanders. That was just the beginning of his dream of becoming a professional football player. Unlike many players who got national exposure playing for high-profile colleg...
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Imagine you are growing up in an Aztec family. Music and dance are important parts of your life, for they are tied in with religion, and pleasing the gods is very important. You will learn how to sing, dance, and play a musical instrument by the time you are twelve years old, and how well you do so ...
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Even as a kid, Alicia knew music was in her heart. Fortunately, she grew up in New York City, a place offering everything from free concerts in Central Park to the background music of street and subway performers. She had the chance to take advantage of the culture the city provided as well as its q...
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A Brief Political and Geographic History of North America: Where Are New France, New Netherland, and New Sweden? (Places in Time/a Kid's Historic Guide to the Changing Names & Places of the World)
מאת Lissa Johnston
When we think of North American colonies, images of Pilgrims and Thanksgiving come to mind. Would you be surprised to learn there were other colonies long before those famous thirteen ? Before anyone landed on the shores of Plymouth Bay, the colony of New France was alive and well. It stretched fro...
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Would you like to grow delicious vegetables, fragrant herbs, or colorful flowers without using chemicals that can harm the environment? If so, organic gardening is for you. In easy steps, this book will help you choose the right types of plants for the soil and sunlight you have in your garden, enri...
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How did people do ordinary things in ancient Rome? Follow a soldier on the battlefield to see how the Roman army beat Hannibal and his elephants. After those wars, Rome grew from a hut village to a great city of a million people that included 400,000 slaves. Keeping all those people working, fed, an...
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People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instruction...
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People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instruction...
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It s never too early or too late to learn about money. Follow a class of fifth-graders as they figure out the world of finance, from earning, budgeting, and saving to investing and collecting coins from around the world. See how they make money work for them, and take the mystery out of money matter...
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How You Can Use Waste Energy to Heat and Light Your Home (Tell Your Parents) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Claire O'Neal
On average, each American throws away a staggering one ton of trash every year. Most of that trash will reach a dead end in a landfill, taking up space and polluting the earth. We can all make an effort to live a life less trashy by recycling, reusing, and being smart about what we buy. But what can...
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Langston Hughes was one of the leading voices in twentieth-century literature. As a writer, he took chances, not minding if what he had to say upset someone. His writing reflected not only his life, but life around him. Whether he attacked the discrimination aimed at African Americans or expounded o...
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Few states have gone the route that Texas did to become part of the Union. First a part of Spain, then Mexico, Texas faced a very uncertain future when it opted to revolt against the regime of Santa Anna. On the plains of San Jacinto, a ragtag Texas army won immortality by defeating Santa Anna and g...
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Maria and her classmates can t wait for their class trip to San Antonio. They ll get to see the Alamo, where Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie fought for Texas freedom in 1836. Before they can go, the class has a lot of other things to learn about the second largest city in Texas. They find out about the ...
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When Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson was a young girl, she wanted to be either a missionary or a movie star. It wasn't until she was a mother of three that her first book, Who Are You? was published in 1966. She's been writing ever since and now has more than thirty books to her credit. In m...
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Betsy Ross is one of America s most endearing and beloved characters. Widowed and alone, early in the Revolutionary War, Betsy was approached by three great men. They knew she was a Patriot and a good seamstress. Would she sew America s first flag for them? Fighting heartbreak, loneliness, and pover...
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Singer/songwriter Sean Kingston might be sporting diamond necklaces worth thousands of dollars these days, but his life hasn t always been that flashy. Splitting his childhood between Miami, Florida, and Kingston, Jamaica, Sean dealt with more hardship than most kids. His parents were divorced. A ru...
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Miley Cyrus grew up watching her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, sing country music for huge crowds. She became not only a performer herself, but an international sensation. Miley is the star of her own television show and performs in concerts around the world. But what is it like to have achieved so much s...
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Matt Christopher grew up with two passions baseball and writing. As a young man, he played semiprofessional ball but quickly realized that while talented, he wasn t good enough to be a professional player. So he channeled all his creative energies into being a writer. Every night when he got home fr...
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The Fall of the Soviet Union, 1991 (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times)
מאת Susan Sales Harkins and William H. Harkins
Soviet history begins with bloodshed, oppression, and strife. Civil War stained the Russian landscape with the blood of its people after Nicholas II abdicated his throne to a provisional gov-ernment. The Bolsheviks wanted Russia, and eventually they took her. Peasants became citizens with rights, bu...
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What's So Great About The Donner Party (A Robbie Reader) (What's So Great About...?)
מאת Susan Sales Harkins and William H. Harkins
What would you do to survive? Most modern Americans never have to answer that question. In 1846, the members of the Donner Party answered it. For months, they walked across the Great Plains. They spent the hottest months of the year using chains and ropes to pull their wagons over mountains. In a hu...
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When she was very young, Selena Gomez wanted to be an actress. But she lived in a small Texas town, not Hollywood. Her parents were divorced. Money was tight. Selena persisted with her dream, and when she was seven, she auditioned for and won a part on Barney & Friends. A few years later, she landed...
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Singer, actor, songwriter, and comedian Demi Lovato has taken Hollywood by storm. Born in Texas, she dreamed of being a performer ever since she was a little girl. She began her acting career at age ten on Barney & Friends, where she met her future BFF Selena Gomez. But her next attempts at acting f...
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Care for a Pet Chinchilla (How to Convince Your Parents You Can) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Amie Jane Leavitt
If you re thinking about getting a pet but don t want a traditional animal like a cat or dog, you might want to consider getting a pet chinchilla. One of the best things about this pet is that it s so soft. In fact, it has the softest fur in the world. Chinchillas are unique in other ways, too. They...
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People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instruction...
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Threat to the Bengal Tiger (A Robbie Reader)(On the Verge of Extinction) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Claire O'Neal
Before the 1900s, hundreds of thousands of wild tigers roamed Southeast Asia. Their beauty, fierceness, and intelligence inspired fear and awe in their human neighbors. These peoples gave the tiger starring roles in folktales and mythology. Human fascination with tigers continues. Unfortunately, the...
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Shad Moss (better known as Bow Wow) got hooked on hip-hop when he was only six years old. His mother took him to a Snoop Dogg concert and Shad volunteered to rap on stage during a break between sets. Snoop asked to meet Shad and invited him to tour with him that summer. It was like a dream come true...
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Poseidon, the god of the sea, was the brother of Zeus. He shared many similarities with his brother, especially his appearance. Yet while Zeus sometimes displayed a playful and humorous side, Poseidon always seemed moody, morose, and even downright angry. Poseidon s prickly personality made him some...
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LeBron James had a rough start in life. He and his mother lived in poverty, and he often had trouble getting to school and avoiding trouble in the rough neighborhoods where he grew up. The LeBron's gift for playing basketball changed his life. By the time he was in high school, he was one of the...
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Ronaldinho is known all over the world for his creativity and flair in soccer. But this Brazilian superstar was once a frightened child, whose father died tragically before his eyes when he was just eight. His father had wanted Ronaldinho to be a great soccer player, and the boy kept working at it. ...
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Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek world was ripped apart. A savage conflict known as the Peloponnesian War pitted many of the Greek city-states against each other. It dragged on for nearly 30 years and cost tens of thousands of lives. We know a great deal about what went on because a man named Thucy...
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In just under a year since winning England s X Factor talent show, British pop star Leona Lewis established herself as an international superstar. Her debut album Spirit, released in England in November 2007, set world records for sales. Twenty-something Leona even cracked the tough U.S. market when...
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Are you looking for a unique pet? You may just want to consider owning one of nature s most playful creatures the kitten. Kittens are very cute, and have agile bodies that enable them to safely jump from high places. They are very entertaining and like to chase balls of yarn and play on scratching p...
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More than 3,500 years ago, people on the Greek island of Calliste had a very good life. They enjoyed lots of sunshine, had plenty of food, and lived in large homes. They even had running water and flush toilets. There was only one problem: Calliste was actually a volcano. Around 1650 BCE, the volca...
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Augustine Okocha had been playing soccer in the streets of Nigeria since he was young, but he had never thought of it as a career. That attitude changed when he visited a friend in Germany and spent some time at soccer training camp with him. The other players loved him and he loved the game. Over t...
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Clifford Harris Jr. began rapping when he was only six years old. At nineteen, his hard work and perseverance scored him a record deal, pulling him out of a dark life in a drug-dealing Atlanta hood. Since 2003, T.I. has ruled the airwaves as a rap King. Each of his albums outsold the last, a rare fe...
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Would you like to grow a patio full of soup? Grow your own jungle or make your house a rainbow of flowers? You can do all this and more if you learn how to build a container garden. You ll hunt in closets, trash cans, and basements to find great containers for your plants. You can grow everything fr...
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Blitzrieg! Hitler's Lightning War (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times)
מאת Earle Rice Jr.
Blitzkrieg Hitler s lightning war tactic combined devastating air attacks with swiftly moving ground forces. The Germans tested their theories of air-ground coordination in the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, a proving ground for German and Soviet weapons and tactics. In September 1939, Hitler launched...
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Leatherbacks are sometimes called the last of the dinosaurs because their ancient ancestors lived when the dinosaurs did. Their ability to swim long distances may be one of the reasons they survived whatever killed most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In modern times, one leatherback swam fro...
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Citizens of the United States can thank a man who lived 200 years ago for some of the important rights they enjoy, including the right to speak their mind, criticize the government, and practice the religion of their choice. His important contributions to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights earn...
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What's So Great About Lewis and Clark (A Robbie Reader) (What's So Great About...?)
מאת Carol Parenzan Smalley
The footsteps of Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s changed history. After journeying over 8,000 miles on land and water, Lewis, Clark, and their Corps of Discovery found new plants, animals, people, and lands. Ordered by President Thomas Jefferson, they reached the Pacific Ocean before other explor...
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In the 1920s, life was good for most Americans and great for many. Prosperity built on the new economic premise of buy now, pay later ruled the decade known as the Roaring Twenties. Then the bubble burst, and America s house of cards came tumbling down. With stunning suddenness, the stock market Cra...
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Jai Singh, an eight-year-old boy from India, will join Colleen s third-grade class next week. Colleen and her classmates are determined to learn all they can about India in order to welcome Jai to the United States. They embark on a quest that takes them from the echoes of ancient India to the dizzy...
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When he was a little boy, Shaquille O'Neal hated being so tall. He didn't like standing out from all the other kids. When he was only thirteen, Shaq was already as tall as a grown man. His father told him that someday he would be proud of his height. Shaq didn't know how that could be. But he had a ...
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A Brief Political and Geographic History of Asia: Where Are Saigon, Kampuchea, and Burma? (Places in Time/a Kid's Historic Guide to the Changing Names ... the Changing Names and Places of the World)
מאת Doug Dillon
Saigon, Kampuchea, and Burma. These names of places in Asia are like many that once existed but now officially do not. As the times have changed, so have the names, but many of the old labels still live on. To forget them would be to forget the people and events that made those places what they are ...
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How to Use Wind Power To Light and Heat Your Home (Tell Your Parents) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Claire O'Neal
Go outside on a gusty day and you ll feel the wild force of the wind. For at least a thousand years, people have sought to harness its power. We ve used sails to push boats to new distances, and windmills to pump water or grind corn. Today, we re using the wind to create electricity. In our polluted...
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All About Electric and Hybrid Cars and Who's Driving Them (Tell Your Parents) (Robbie Readers)
מאת Stephanie Bearce
What s the big deal about hybrid cars? Why are there so many celebrities driving them? Are these cars really better than gasoline powered cars? You can learn how hybrid cars work and explore new inventions in the automotive industry. Discover vehicles powered by hydrogen and cars that run on sunshin...
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Are you looking for a unique pet? You may want to consider owning one of nature's funniest creatures: the parrot. Parrots are very colorful and highly intelligent. There are more than 350 species of them on earth. These entertaining animals can dance, sing, and say, I love you! You ll learn about ho...
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Though his upbringing was untraditional for a rapper, Kanye West rose to fame as a hip-hop star in the mid-2000s. Raised by a single parent who was a Fullbright Scholar and Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University, Kanye grew up in an upper-middle-class area of Chicago. Kanye was ...
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The Story of September 11, 2001 (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times)
מאת Kathleen Tracy
It was a beautiful late summer morning, the kind of day even busy New Yorkers took a moment to appreciate. The sky was spectacularly clear, tinted an azure blue, the air stirred by a gentle breeze. The mood of the city seemed optimistic as people hurried down the crowded streets on their way to work...
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Overlook Eli Manning at your own risk. He might be quiet and calm, but he knows how to lead and how to win. His easy style helped him lead the New York Giants to the 2008 Super Bowl title when they upset the previously unbeaten New England Patriots. Eli wasn t an instant success, even though he came...
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Abigail Breslin s sunshiny personality has won her many important roles in such films as Signs, Nim s Island, No Reservations, and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. In 2007, she became one of the youngest actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Little Miss Sunshine. Yet, ev...
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What Day Is It? / ¿Que dia es Hoy? (A Day in the Life) (A Day in the Life/ Un Dia En La Vida)
מאת Jamie Kondrchek
If yesterday was Sunday and today s a brand-new day, What day is it, what day is it? Today is finally Monday. Si ayer fue domingo, y hoy ya amanecio, ¿Que dia es hoy, que dia es hoy? ¡El lunes llego! In this lilting read-aloud story, preschoolers will learn the days of the week and t...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald defined the 1920s, calling it the "Jazz Age." His work reflected both the excitement of the decade and the misery of the Great Depression that followed. He is indeed a Classic Storyteller, but like many artists he suffered for his work. Scott’s writing came from dealing with th...
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All Harry Potter knew was a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their hateful son, Dudley. His room was a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs. He hadn't had a birthday party in eleven years. All that changed in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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For centuries, ordinary Russians lived under the absolute power of the czars, the country s hereditary rulers. For many, such a life involved few rights and grinding poverty. The Russian people increasingly wanted a greater voice in the way they were governed and a higher standard of living. These d...
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Everywhere across the United States, children from other countries are joining American classrooms. How can their classmates prepare? Learning about the culture, geography, and history of the new student s native country can help smooth the transition. Greeting the student with a few words in his or...
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A new twist on the old pet care books! These delightful books will help beginning readers reach informed decisions as to whether an animal would make an acceptable pet. Not all the animals covered in the series are suitable for every family. Each title provides simplified technical info about the sp...
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Richard the Lionheart (Biography from Ancient Civilizations)
מאת Susan Sales Harkins and William H. Harkins
Richard I, king of England from 1189 to 1199, was a brilliant soldier and military strategist. His fierceness in battle during the Third Crusade won him the title of Coeur de Lion, or Lionheart. Even his most formidable enemy, Saladin, respected Richard and feared his army. Saladin s own emirs were ...
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William the Conqueror (Biography from Ancient Civilizations)
מאת Susan Sales Harkins and William H. Harkins
William, the son of a duke and a peasant, spent his childhood in hiding, raised among the Norman peasantry. Lords owing fealty to him would have murdered him if they had found him. He spent his early adult years fighting rebel lords for his birthright. As Duke of Normandy, he claimed the throne of E...
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The Clinton View: The Historic Fight for the 2008 Democratic Nomination (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times)
מאת Kathleen Tracy
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American politics. To critics, she is willful and ambitious a liberal more interested in promoting her agenda than uniting the country. To supporters, she s intelligent and committed an advocate of social causes such as universal...
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Imagine living in a world with clean air and very little pollution. Imagine never having to hear your parents complain about paying the electric bill. Does that sound too good to be true? It s all possible with solar energy. Learn how actor Ed Begley Jr. lives in his solar home. Read how solar power...
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Have you ever wondered how kids from other countries spend their time in school? In this lively addition to the Meet Our New Student series, follow a day at school for eight students from around the world. In Costa Rica, Gabriel s principal makes an exciting announcement. In Thailand, Atom prepares ...
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What was it about Persia s leadership and military that compelled powerful civilizations like Greece and Rome to fear and respect the might of the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen? The Persian Empire dictated administrative, economic, and artistic trends on an international level for a...
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Before Kristen Stewart thrilled audiences as Bella Swan in Twilight, she starred in more than a dozen other movies. Raised by a Hollywood family, acting was in her blood. She starred in her first role when she was just a child, and her talent amazed a growing group of fans. From her part as the desp...
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Brian Rasoldi and his fourth-grade class think Ms. Reynolds is nuts when she walks in with a pile of newspapers, a green doll, a copy of the Declaration of Independence, a library book, and a fireman s hat. But when they find out they re taking a class trip to Philadelphia, it all starts to make sen...
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When the students in Ms. Harrington s class got to school, they thought it would be just a regular school day. When they started to learn about New York City, it got a little more interesting, but when Ms. Harrington told them they were going on a class trip to New York, they couldn t believe it! Be...
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The life of singer/actress Hilary Duff....
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