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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd  
Publisher Comments Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Maidens, monks, and millers' sons — in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew,...
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The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History
by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple Publisher Comments In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, witnessed one of the saddest and most inexplicable chapters in American history. When a group of girls came down with a horrible, mysterious bout of illness, the town doctor looked in his medical books but failed to find a...
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Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary: Book One: Westward to Home (My America)
by Patricia Hermes Publisher Comments It is 1848 when Joshua McCullough and his family leave their home in St. Joseph, Missouri, and set off for Oregon on a wagon train. Though many of the other families on the trail suffer devastating losses during their long journey, Joshua's is spared...
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Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building
by Deborah Hopkinson Publisher Comments The acclaimed team that brought readers the IRA Children’s Book Award—winning Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt is back with a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be....
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Magic Tree House #39: Dark Day in the Deep Sea
by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness–secrets they need if they’re going to save Merlin. But when the magic tree house leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle of the ocean, they’re not sure who...
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Magic Tree House #34: Season of the Sandstorms with Sticker
by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way that they live. From camel rides and oases to ancient...
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Bridge to America: Based on a True Story
by Linda Glaser Publisher Comments The year is 1920 and the setting is a shtetl, a small village in northern Poland, where Fivel and his family live in fear of the ruthless Cossacks and unpredictable pogroms. As he and his mother, brother, and sisters struggle to stay alive, nine-year-old...
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The Kids' Book of Questions
by Gregory Stock Publisher Comments Now more than ever, parents are told how important it is to talk meaningfully to their kids. This is the book that makes it happen. A revised and expanded second edition, The Kids' Book of Questions, with 634,000 copies in print, makes it easy to ask...
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Disaster Strikes! #03: Peril at Pier Nine
by Penny Draper Publisher Comments A daring, impulsive boy, Jack lives to sail, have adventures and get in trouble. When the Noronic docks at Ward Island, he and his friends gather to admire it, but you need an invitation from one of the passengers to come on board. Jack spots Henry, a...
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
by Coco De Young Synopsis The Great Depression hits close to home for 11-year-old Margo Bandini when the sheriff starts eviction procedures against her family. Her father has two weeks to pay the bank or they must leave their home forever. Margo is determined to find a way to...
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Roughing It on the Oregon Trail (Time-Traveling Twins)
by Diane Stanley Publisher Comments What if you could close your eyes and open them to find you were amongst hundreds of pioneers in 1843, packing up your covered wagon to travel the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail? Meet twins Liz and Lenny and their unique grandmother, who, with the help...
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Virginia's Civil War Diaries: Book One: My Brother's Keeper (My America #01)
by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments Virginia Dickens has promised to keep a journal for her older brother Jed. And Ginny finds plenty to write about: Pennsylvania Volunteers arrive in the town square reporting a big battle in Virginia and calling for more men to join their ranks. Rumors...
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The Book of Time Outs: A Mostly True History of the World's Biggest Troublemakers
by Deb Lucke Publisher Comments The next time you get a time out, take this book and read about the most famous and infamous rabble-rousers in history, from Queen Cleopatra to Babe Ruth!...
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Mazes Around the World
by Mary D Lankford Publisher Comments Puzzling and mysterious, mazes and labyrinths have fascinated people around the world for centuries. From England to Egypt, Greece to South Africa and beyond, travel on an exciting journey as you discover the secrets of these intriguing patterns. In this...
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The Usborne Official Knight's Handbook
by Sam Taplin Synopsis - These funny historical 'handbooks' are an eye-opening introduction to the life of knights, Roman soldiers, princesses, and pirates....
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Night of the New Magicians
by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a 100 years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their way to the 1889 World&#...
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Winter Days in the Big Woods (My First Little House Books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder Publisher Comments Laura helps Ma and Pa make the little log cabin snug and cozy for the snowy days ahead. 1994 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)...
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Elephant Run
by Roland Smith Publisher Comments & nbsp; In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is& nbsp; too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he...
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Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn
by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the magic tree...
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Viking Invader
by Fergus Fleming Synopsis This tabloid-style work contains illustratio ns and photographs of Vikings which aims to present a wealth of accurate historical material in an irresistible fashion....
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