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Ain't Nothing but a Man

My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

by Nelson, Scott Reynolds

Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are o...

When I Crossed No-Bob

by McMullan, Margaret

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and...

The look-it-up book of presidents

by Blassingame, Wyatt

Brief biographies of the presidents of the United States from George Washington to George Bush.

The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents

by Blassingame, Wyatt

Provides brief biographies of the American presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Marie Curie

by Krull, Kathleen

Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that s...

Whale Port

by Foster, Mark

Long before the invention of electricity or the discovery of underground reservoirs of fossil fuels, people depended on whale oil to keep their lamps lit. A fe...

Shots at Sea

A Houdini & Nate Mystery

by Lalicki, Tom & Cerniglia, Carlyn

While traveling to England with his mother and great-aunt on the ocean liner Lusitania in 1911, thirteen-year-old Nate, delighted to find that the Houdinis are...

Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest

by Haig, Matt

Aunt Eda’s Rule #9: NEVER—UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES— GO INTO THE FOREST. Samuel and Martha have just moved to Norway to live with their aunt Eda, and sheâ€...

Leepike Ridge

by Wilson, N. D.

While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of...

Factory Girl

by Greenwood, Barbara

Twelve-year-old Emily Watson's story is a shocking, compassionate re-creation of daily life for the urban poor one hundred years ago. At the dingy, overcrowded...