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1) Pippo the Fool

Author

Fern, Tracey E

Publisher

Charlesbridge

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

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In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool claims he will win the contest, everyone laughs at him. Based on a true story.

2) Barnum's bones

Author

Fern, Tracey E

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.

3) Dare the wind

Author

Fern, Tracey E

Publisher

Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

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Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down around the tip of Cape Horn, and into San Francisco, where...

4) Buffalo music

Author

Fern, Tracey E

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

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After hunters kill off the buffalo around her Texas ranch, a woman begins raising orphan buffalo calves and eventually ships four members of her small herd to Yellowstone National Park, where they form the beginnings of newly thriving buffalo herds. Based on the true story of Mary Ann Goodnight and her husband Charles.

5) Howard and the mummy: Howard Carter and the search for King Tut's tomb

Author

Fern, Tracey E

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

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2019 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3

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"Howard dreamed of discovering a mummy, ... especially a royal mummy in its tomb, complete with all its treasures. When he was seventeen, he took a job with the Egypt Exploration Fund and was sent to Egypt to learn about archaeology and excavation sites. And his mummy hunt was on. Howard discovered many amazing artifacts, but he searched for years before coming upon the most famous mummy of all, King Tut"--Dust jacket flap.

6) Wild Horse Annie: friend of the mustangs

Author

Fern, Tracey E

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Wild Horse Annie was the nickname of Velma Bronn Johnston (1912-77), loved mustangs all her life. When she saw mustangs being rounded up and killed to make room for ranchers' livestock, she knew she had to speak up. In 1950, she began writing letters to local newspapers and politicians, defending the horses' right to raom free. Many people told Annie to hush up, but they couldn't stop her. She soon became a voice for mustangs throughout the state...