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Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion מאת Steve Sheinkin History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinken delivers America's greatest advent...

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King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution מאת Steve Sheinkin 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, instead, is utterly interesting, antedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw ...

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Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War מאת Steve Sheinkin 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 attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over remarks Sumner made slamming senators who supported slavery in Kansas. Broo...

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Come to the Castle!: A Visit to a Castle in Thirteenth-Century England מאת Linda Ashman BEHIND THE SCENES IN A MEDIEVAL CASTLE   History comes alive in poetry and pictures. Welcome to the 13th-century banquet at the castle of the Earl of Daftwood! Here young readers will meet all of the lords and ladies, the servants and the squi...

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Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught? מאת Bruce Weinstein My teacher gave me an A... by mistake. What do I do? Teens face tough choices like this one every day. Help's arrived! Whether it's about the use of the internet (downloading music? copying homework papers?) or sports (steroids?), friendship, family, school, or affairs of the...

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Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures from the archives of The Anne Frank House מאת Menno Metselaar On a summer in 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding from the Nazis. Until the day they arrested her, more than two years later, she kept a diary. ANNE FRANK is the indespensable visual guide to her tragic, but inspiring story. Produced in association with The Anne Frank House and fi...

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Why Is Snot Green? מאת Glenn Murphy PREPARE TO LAUGH AND LEARN   Scientific answers to mysteries kids really want to know. Sure a lot of kids want to grow up to be astronauts, but according to scientist Glenn Murphy, even MORE kids want to know what happens to astronaut farts. (...

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Digital Revolutionaries: The Men and Women Who Brought Computing to Life (New York Times) מאת Steve Lohr In the beginning, there was the computer. And it was big. As big as a room. Sometimes as big as a house. Early computers required teams of white-coated scientists to keep them running, yet one of those giant behemoths could not match the computing power of a single microchip today. From the fir...

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Django מאת Bonnie Christensen Born into a travelling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, ...

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How Loud Can You Burp?: More Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) מאת Glenn Murphy How loud can your average middle-grader burp? Parents, librarians, and innocent bystanders are about to find out. This follow-up to the equally alluring WHY IS SNOT GREEN? tackles more of life's burning questions, many submitted by real-life ten-year-olds Could we use animal poop to make elect...

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Clean Air (Sally Ride Science) מאת Andrew Bridges Learn how to live green in this series from noted astronaut and environmentalist, Sally Ride that is dedicated to 3 of the Earth's main resources--air, energy, and water. Each volume describes how people use the Earth's resources and what can be done to protect them. Packed with full-color...

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Mission: Save the Planet: Things YOU Can Do to Help Fight Global Warming! מאת Sally Ride PRACTICAL STEPS TO SAVE THE PLANET   A how-to companion packed with simple things kids can do to have an impact.   From simple measures like turning off the water while you brush your teeth, to bigger challenges like MAKING SOME NOISE in the larger comm...

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Clean Water (Sally Ride Science) מאת Beth Geiger Learn how to live green in this series from noted astronaut and environmentalist, Sally Ride that is dedicated to 3 of the Earth's main resources--air, energy, and water. Each volume describes how people use the Earth's resources and what can be done to protect them. Packed with full-color...