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Dinosaur Mountain

Digging into the Jurassic Age

by Ray, Deborah Kogan

Earl Douglass was a teenager when he first heard about the Bone Wars—the frenzied race between paleontologists to unearth and classify dinosaur fossils—and he ...

Down the Colorado

John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer

by Ray, Deborah Kogan

Although John Wesley Powell's minister father always wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, young Wes had different plans for his future. Enraptured by the...

To Go Singing through the World

The Childhood of Pablo Neruda

by Ray, Deborah Kogan

Pablo Neruda grew up in the rough and wild frontier town of Temuco, Chile. His father was a railroad man and not inclined to draw out the introspective boy. Ho...

Lily and Miss Liberty

by Stevens, Carla & Ray, Deborah Kogan

A little girl makes crowns and sells them to help raise money for the pedestal needed for mounting France's gift of the Statue of Liberty to this country.

Some of the Pieces

by Madenski, Melissa & Ray, Deborah Kogan

A year after the death of the father, two children and their mother try to come to terms with their loss.

All Joseph Wanted

by Radin, Ruth Yaffe & Ray, Deborah Kogan

Eleven-year-old Joseph deeply wishes that his mother could learn how to read, since her inability to do so has complicated their life considerably and placed a...

My Daddy Was a Soldier

A World War II Story

by Ray, Deborah Kogan

While Daddy's away fighting in the Pacific, Jeannie plants a victory garden, collects scrap, and sends letters to her father as she anxiously awaits his return.

My prairie year

based on the diary of Elenore Plaisted

by Harvey, Brett & Ray, Deborah Kogan

Nine-year old Elenore describes her experiences living with her family in the Dakota Territory in the late nineteenth century.