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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...

The Boys' Book

How to Be the Best at Everything The Girls' Book

by Enright, Dominique & Macdonald, Guy & Foster, Juliana & and others.Hal Iggulden

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Eggs

by Spinelli, Jerry

Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each oth...

Outside and Inside Woolly Mammoths

by Markle, Sandra

Describes the anatomy of life of the woolly mammoths as well as why they became extinct.

On the Wings of Heroes

by Peck, Richard

A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the prev...

Animal Poems

by Worth, Valerie

Each of the exquisite twenty-three poems in this posthumous collection by Valerie Worth carefully distinguishes one animal from all other creatures and capture...

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...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

by Williams, Marcia

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Letters from a Slave Boy

The Story of Joseph Jacobs

by Lyons, Mary E.

A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War Nort...

Diving to a Deep-Sea Volcano

by Mallory, Kenneth

Describes the deep, underwater, volcanic mountains in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and the remarkable creatures that live there in conditions inhospitable...