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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. Includes author's note about Dickens' life and some of the books he wrote.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.
7) Dust devil
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Language
English
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Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
8) A voyage in the clouds: the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel"--
Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Anneliese and her little brother Peter have been forever changed by the war that took their father's life. One day, while wandering the ruined streets of Munich in search of food, they stumble upon a book exhibit. The great hall is filled with more books than Anneliese can count! Here, Anneliese and Peter meet the lady with the books, who will have a greater impact on their lives than they could ever imagine.The Lady with the Books is based on the...
10) Hello lighthouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
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Description
"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--
11) Pippo the Fool
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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When a little girl asks her Baba to tell her a story about a princess and a monster what she hears is so much more--the true tale of her grandmother's escape from a prisoner of war camp in Siberia to freedom, all with the help of a secret message hidden in a nesting doll. The perfect happily ever after!
13) Bonnie's rocket
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
While her father works on the Apollo 11 mission, Bonnie experiments with different ways to build and launch her own rocket. Includes author's note.
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Series
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As they plant trees and do other environmental projects for the Civilian Conservation Corps, Russian immigrants Pavel and Anatoly are happy to find employment during the Great Depression, but when other workers accuse them of not being "real Americans," Pavel and Anatoly learn the words to the Star Spangled Banner, newly designated by Congress as the national anthem.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.
16) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Every single morning, the overseer of the plantation rings the bell. Daddy gathers wood. Mama cooks. Ben and the other slaves go out to work. Each day is the same. Full of grueling work and sweltering heat. Every day, except one, when the bell rings and Ben is nowhere to be found. Because Ben ran. Yet, despite their fear and sadness, his family remains hopeful that maybe, just maybe, he made it North. That he is free. An ode to hope and a powerful...
17) Make a change
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"During the civil rights movement, little Marvin doesn't want to be left out of a protest being held at a store that only allows whites at its lunch counter. When a young white man approaches the scene, the child is unsure what to expect"--
18) The listeners
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
19) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Beginning with two orphans, a prehistoric boy and a wolf cub, imagines how the bond between man and wolf might have formed and looks at how it changed through their shared history as wolves became domesticated and diversified into more than 400 breeds of dog.
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