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Warriors Don't Cry (Archway Paperback)
by Melba Pattill Beals  Publisher Comments You've gotta learn to defend yourself. Never let your enemy know what you are feeling. -- The soldier assigned to protect Melba Please, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Sometimes I just need to be a girl. -- Melba's diary, on her sixteenth...
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George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist (Heroes of History)
by Janet Benge Publisher Comments "Children and adults alike love the popular Christian Heroes: Then & Now series. Now Christian Heroes authors Janet and Geoff Benge tell the stories of Heroes of History with the same engaging narrative style and historical depth! This new series...
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The Education of Little Tree
by Forrest Carter Publisher Comments The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. "Little Tree" as his grandparents call...
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Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims (Scholastic Biography)
by Clyde Robert Bulla Publisher Comments This biography for young readers tells of the adventurous life of the Wampanoag Indian who befriended the Pilgrims at Plymouth....
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Guts
by Gary Paulsen Publisher Comments Author Gary Paulsen tells the real stories of the adventures that inspired him to write the Brian Robeson stories in the novels "Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, " and "Brian's Return." He describes how he made his own bows and arrows, takes readers...
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Dancing to Freedom: The True Story of Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin Publisher Comments In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao’s officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li’s new life began as he left his family behind...
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from...
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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
by Marc Tyler Nobleman Publisher Comments JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure...
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Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin Publisher Comments At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family’s...
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Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
by Don Brown Publisher Comments When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn't have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solving...
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Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns
by Elizabeth Macleod Publisher Comments Danger and drama among the monarchs. What would you do for absolute power? For many monarchs throughout history, it was a question that ruled their lives. Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading death... or...
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Looking Back: A Book of Memories
by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments People are constantly asking Newbery medalist Lois Lowry where she gets her ideas. In this fascinating memoir, Lowry answers this question through her recollections of childhood friends and through pictures and memories that explore her rich family...
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
by Roald Dahl Publisher Comments In "Boy", Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his...
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John Adams Speaks for Freedom (Stories of Famous Americans)
by Deborah Hopkinson Publisher Comments John Adams didn't enjoy traveling. He much preferred to stay home with his wife and children. But John Adams also had a dream: He wanted to see the thirteen colonies free from English rule. He wanted to see the creation of a new country -- the United...
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? (Who Was...?)
by Margaret Frith Publisher Comments This accessible, appealing biography shines the light on Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light bulb, along with the phonograph and a precursor to the movie camera called a kinetoscope. Illustrations....
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The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching
by Demi Publisher Comments THIS IS THE LEGEND OF LAO TZU, "who may or may not have been born; who may or may not have founded Taoism, on of the greatest religions in the world; and who may or may not have written one of the greatest books of wisdom in the world: the Tao Te Ching,...
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Meet Thomas Jefferson (Landmark Books)
by Marvin Barrett Publisher Comments When Thomas Jefferson was young, Virginia was still a colony of England. Jefferson thought that many English laws and taxes were unfair, so he studied hard to become a lawyer and help make better laws. Soon he and others came to believe that the colonies...
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Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar
by Maggie Anton Synopsis The tale of a young girl who challenges conventions to engage in Jewish learning Set in 11th-century Troyes, France, Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar tells the story of Joheved, eldest daughter of Salomon ben Isaac (known as Rashi), one of the great...
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
by Jean Nathan 
Powells.com Staff Pick The fey daughter of a successful portrait artist and sister to a fishing lure inventor, Dare Wright conducted her life like an actress in an autobiographical production. Juxtaposed between innocence and erotica she created nineteen children's books, had...
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Breaking Through (01 Edition)
by Francisco Jimenez Publisher Comments At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimenez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in...
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