Educational: History
Turtleback Books How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
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Turtleback Books What Was the March on Washington
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Turtleback Books Chinese Cinderella The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
£19.38
Turtleback Books What Was Pompeii
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Turtleback Books Who Was George Washington Carver
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Turtleback Books Who Was Lucille Ball
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Alamo AllStars
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Turtleback Books Where Is Machu Picchu
£16.35
Turtleback Books What Is the Constitution
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Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc. Titanic
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Houghton Mifflin Sequoyah
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HarperCollins Remember
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Clarion Books They Called Themselves the K.K.K.
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Clarion Books Black Potatoes
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Quest for Z
Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning author comes a picture book biography that feels like Indiana Jones for kids!British explorer Percy Fawcett believed that hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest was an ancient city, lost for the ages. Most people didn’t even believe this city existed. But if Fawcett could find it, he would be rich and famous forever. This is the true story of one man’s thrilling, dangerous journey into the jungle, and what he found on his quest for the lost city of Z.
£16.19
Penguin Putnam Inc The Emperors Silent Army
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Emperor's Silent ArmyChapter 1A Strange DiscoveryChapter 2The Quest for ImmortalityChapter 3Buried SoldiersChapter 4The Faces of Ancient ChinaChapter 5Inside the Emperor's TombChapter 6The Emperor's LegacyAuthor's NoteBibliographyIndex
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Random House Children's Books Ice Mummy The Discovery of a 5000 Year Old Man
Book SynopsisReading paragraphsIn 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll’s head. But it wasn’t. It was a man, frozen in the ice for 5,000 years. Ice Mummy—first published by Random House in 1998—tells the story of this amazing discovery, from the struggle to remove the mummy from his icy grave to the creation of his final resting place: a specially designed refrigeration chamber in his own museum in Bolzano, Italy.Now updated to include shocking new evidence that the Iceman was murdered—shot with an arrow after hand-to-hand combat with an assailant—Ice Mummy will provide young readers with more chills than ever!
£6.01
HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Short History of World War I
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HarperCollins Liberty or Death
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A More Perfect Union
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Discovery of the Americas
Book SynopsisFrom the crossing of the Bering Land Bridge over 20,000 years ago to the arrival of the Europeans, this classic picture book paints the early discoveries of America in grand strokes. The text is useful for both the classroom and at home as it combines beautiful landscape illustrations with factual features: maps, timelines, chronological tables, and easy-to-use appendixes. The dazzlingly clean and accurate prose and the exhilarating beauty of the pictures combine for an extraordinary achievement in both history and art.—School Library JournalThe Maestros do a real service here in presenting the more familiar explorers in the context of all the migrations that have populated the Western Hemisphere.... An outstanding introduction.—Kirkus ReviewsSupports the Common Core State Standards
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cleopatra
Book SynopsisQueen of Egypt at the age of eighteen, Cleopatra''s passion was to untie the world under Egyptian rule. Legendary leaders risked their kingdoms to win her heart, and her epic life has inspired countless tales throughout history. A timeless story of love, war, and ambition, this pictorial biography from acclaimed author/illustrator Diane Stanley is sure to entertain and educate. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.
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Simon & Schuster The Great Wall of China
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers James Towne Struggle for Survival
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Roanoke the Lost Colony
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Simon & Schuster Australia Shades of Gray
Book SynopsisAt the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.
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Aladdin Paperbacks A Boy at War A Novel of Pearl Harbor
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers Six Days in October The Stock Market Crash of
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers Capital
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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books America
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Simon & Schuster Photo by Brady A Picture of the Civil War
Book SynopsisMathew B. Brady was already a famous photographer by the time the Civil War began. But the war gave Brady something else, the chance to make a record of a war in a way that had never been done before. With true to life pictures instead of just words. Ages 9-14 years.
£20.69
Simon Spotlight Davy Crockett
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Simon & Schuster Everything I Know About Pirates A Collection of
Book SynopsisA collection of made-up facts, educated guesses, and silly pictures about pirates.
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Simon & Schuster If the Walls Could Talk
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Simon & Schuster A Quiet Place
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Green Apple Lessons, Inc. Colonial Times Picture Book An Alphabetical
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Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. Cant You Make Them Behave King George
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Penguin Putnam Inc Why Dont You Get a Horse Sam Adams
Book SynopsisThis lively biography, by Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz, is a nice, personal look at a leader and his times.In early America, when all the men wore ruffled shirts and rode grandly on horseback, one man refused to follow suit. He was the rebel leader Sam Adams, a plainspoken gent who scorned ruffles, refused to ride a horse, and had little regard for the King.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May
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Penguin Putnam Inc Will You Sign Here John Hancock
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Boy Called Slow
Book SynopsisThe True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac.Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father, a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood, acting with careful deliberation, determination, and bravery, which eventually earned him his proud new name: Sitting Bull.An ALA Notable BookBeing named Slow and growing up in the shadow of a great warrior hardly dwarfed the prospects of this protagonist: he grew up to be Sitting Bull. Bruchac''s sensitively told story of Sitting Bull''s coming-of-age reassures young boys that success comes through effort, not birth. —Booklist
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Penguin Putnam Inc Shh Were Writing the Constitution
Book SynopsisGo behind the scenes at the Constitutional Convention, thanks to award-winning author Jean Fritz's words!This factual gem that's written with Newbery Honor author Jean Fritz's humorous touch chronicles the hot summer of 1787 where fifty-five delegates from thirteen states huddled together in the strictest secrecy in Philadelphia to draw up the constitution of the United States!Includes a copy of the Constitution and those who signed it!An informative, interesting, and immensely readable account of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 . . . An excellent choice for introducing young readers to the complexities of the constitution.—School Library Journal
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Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. Around the World in a Hundred Years
Book SynopsisNewbery-Honor winning author, Jean Fritz, brings history to life once again in 10 true tales of 15th-century European explorers!True tales of our world's greatest 15th century explorers, from Bartholomew Diaz and Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, are fascinatingly portrayed, complimented with the softly shaded pencil illustrations of Anthony Bacon Venti. Readers are led through a one-hundred-year period when Europeans explored the world and mapped the globe, while selfishly feeding their own curiosity and greed along the way. Fritz includes astounding details, which provide young readers with an expanded understanding of events and the idiosyncrasies of these colorful characters. Venti's maps clarify the explorers' routes. Count on Jean Fritz to breathe life into these true tales of the Old World's fifteen most extraordinary explorers. It is history written in a refreshingly new way.While presenting the salient facts, Fritz approaches them with playful irreverence; accordingly, the frequently traveled material can seem refreshingly new.--Publisher's Weekly
£9.49
Penguin Putnam Inc Make Way for Sam Houston Unforgettable Americans
Book SynopsisColorful Sam Houston leaps to life in the pages of this fresh and funny biography, set against the story of Texas's fight for independence from Mexico.Lively, readable, and solidly researched, this is the kind of biography every child needs. —Booklist, starred reviewJean Fritz has done it again. Her writing turns this larger-than-life character into a very real person. —School Library Journal, starred reviewYoung readers will find the book fast-paced and fact-packed. — The New York Times Book ReviewJean Fritz lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
£7.59
Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. When the Soldiers Were Gone
Book SynopsisHenk was hidden on the farm when he was young and the Nazi soldiers came. But the war is over now, and Henk finds out that the people he lives with, the people he loves, are not his real family. He doesn''t remember his real parents, and now a new life in the city lies ahead of him. Will things ever be the same?
£7.00
University of Wales Press Helyntion Iwerddon
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