 | Gold Rush Orphan
Publication Date: April 8, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up In Gold Rush Orphan, Sandy Frances Duncan has woven a gripping tale of hardship and adventure based on her grandfather’s gold rush journal entries of his 1898 trip to the Klondike. The arduous trek to the goldfields come alive in the fictionalized story of Jeremy Britain, an orphaned youth who joins James Fraser and his companions to search for the gold that would make their fortunes. Venturing into uncharted lands, Jeremy begins furiously panning the streams as he follows a mysterious account that promises the...
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 | A Coyote Columbus Story
Publication Date: September 2002| Age Level: 6 and up Coyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures within it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles, and beavers in Coyote’s land. Instead, he is interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain. Native American author Thomas King reinterprets the entire Columbus conquest mythology as a trickster tale, making the point that history is influenced by the culture of the reporter. Th...
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 | Three Across: The Great Transatlantic Air Race of 1927
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up It's 1927, and the air race is on! Three pilots compete to be the first to fly across the Atlantic. In the spring of that year, three airplanes were at Roosevelt Field on Long Island preparing for a historic journey - a nonstop flight between New York and Paris. Which plane would be first? Most predicted that the Columbia, with renowned test pilot Clarence Chamberlin at the controls, would lead the way. Another plane, the America, was also a favorite. Its crew of four was headed by an authentic American hero, Ri...
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 | The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark: by Private Reubin Field, Member of the Corps of Discovery
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 6 and up A flavorful account to commemorate its bicentennialIn 1803 a young farmer named Reubin Field enlisted for a journey of enormous import. Commissioned by President Jefferson and headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, a "Corps of Discovery" was to make its way through dangerous terrain and harsh conditions to blaze a trail to the Pacific Ocean. Focusing on a lesser-known figure from the Corps, Judith Edwards has imagined what Reubin’s voice might have been like, and how he might have told his version of the long journey. The...
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 | Dead Reckoning: A Pirate Voyage with Captain Drake
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 | Going West
Release Date: March 2, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up In this simple and beautifully written text, with its beautifully evocative illustrations, the story of a little family of young American pioneers unfolds. Young readers will be enthralled by this moving account of the awesome challenges faced by a pioneer family during their first hard year in the American West. Full-color illustrations. ...
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 | The Loch: Part III, Discovery (Mythics Series)
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 | Smiler's Bones (Apple Signature Edition)
Publication Date: February 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | We Are Not Eaten by Yaks (An Accidental Adventure)
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 | One Small Step
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up It's 1969, and thirteen-year-old Scott is doing all the things that normal boys do -- and also flying airplanes with his Air Force flight instructor father. When Scott successfully crash-lands a training plane, NASA takes notice. They hope to recruit him for their top-secret space program, which will launch a test flight to the moon before the first lunar landing. This craft was intended to be piloted by chimps, but one chimp had to be dismissed, and now they need a quick substitute -- who better than a boy aviator? Soon Scott is on his way to ...
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 | La ciudad de los dioses(Leer en espanol, Nivel 2)
Publication Date: December 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Footprints on the Moon
Release Date: March 24, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Best-selling author Mark Haddon recalls his boyhood fascination with the moon and his pure wonder at witnessing the first lunar landing.Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away. As he read atlases and library books and kept clippings on astronauts orbiting the moon, he hoped and hoped that they would fi nd a way to land there. And one extraordinary day they did, captured on his fl ickery TV, like giants bouncing in slow motion. When the boy fell...
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 | My Name Is York
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up The boats slip into the water at dawn and the journey begins. Some people think we may find monsters out West. But our leaders, Captain Lewis and Captain Clark, say that is an idea for dreamers. There is no room for dreaming on this journey into the unknown. Still, I dream and I carry my dream within me as we begin our quest to find a waterway to the western sea. I dream of finding freedom. My name is York and I am a slave. When the Lewis and Clark expedition launched its search for a water passage to the Pacific ...
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 | Ancient Mounds of Watson Brake: Oldest Earthworks in North America
Release Date: March 31, 2010| Grade Level: K and up Reca Jones discovered the oldest earthworks in the Western Hemisphere near her home near Monroe, Louisiana. In these eleven mounds at Watson Brake, she found round beads and fire-cracked rocks. This fictional picture book follows two children as they learn about this real-life discovery from Reca herself. ...
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 | History News: The Explorers
Release Date: November 3, 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Klondike Gold
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 | Trailblazers: Poems of Exploration
Release Date: February 27, 2007 Vast seas. Infinite outer space. Endless prairies. Cloud-skimming peaks. The wide, open world. Intrepid explorers cannot ignore the call to adventure, and glory, and knowledge, and freedom. The call to explore. From the Vikings to Lewis and Clark to Sally Ride, discover the spirit of exploration in sixty-two fascinating, vibrant, moving poems....
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 | The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
Publication Date: October 12, 2010When disaster strikes the liner Galatea, the crew and passengers find themselves adrift at sea. It appears that things cannot get worse until they discover that their would-be rescuers are treacherous pirates! The captives are taken to a secret island and forced to do hard labor. While plotting their escape, they learn that the island holds two secrets: one fabulous and one that threatens to destroy them all! Will they escape? What are the secrets of the island? These questions and more will be answered in The Pirate Island by Harry Collingwood. ...
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 | Chuiraquimba and Black Robes
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Chuiraquimba has lived all her life in the forests, the daughter of a powerful chief. When her father abandons her dying brother, she runs to the "Black Robes" for help. She and her brother are welcomed into the Jesuit reductions and come to believe in the Christian religion. Slave traders however hunt the Guarani, poaching them from the reductions despite the priests efforts to convert the slavers and reform the practice of slavery. Eventually the priests gather the remaining Guarani and move south over the falls along the Parana River to a better location. Alo...
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 | Leif's Saga: A Viking Tale
Publication Date: April 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up Based on the Icelandic Sagas and the author's journey to Newfoundland, a pictorial biography follows Leif Eiriksson and his crew's landing in North America in 1000 AD and celebrates the spirit of Viking life and travel. ...
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