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Who Was First?Discovering the Americasby Freedman, Russell"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage... |
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Elijah of Buxtonby Curtis, Christopher PaulIn 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indianby Alexie, ShermanBudding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is t... |
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The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchioby Alexander, LloydNaive and bumbling Carlo, his shady camel-puller Baksheesh, and Shira, a girl determined to return home, follow a treasure map through the deserts and cities o... |
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BeowulfA Hero's Tale Retoldby Rumford, JamesA simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, an... |
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The Wednesday Warsby Schmidt, Gary D.During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in ... |
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