 | Away to the Goldfields!
Release Date: September 23, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Some things are more precious than goldStubborn, spirited Molly Malarky embarks on a life-altering adventure as she and her brother flee their miserable New Hampshire farm on the trail of their widower father, who abandoned them during the first months of the California gold rush. Traveling from Boston, to Panama, across the isthmus, and up the Pacific coast, they find that no part of the journey is easy. Cheats and scalawags abound, the distances are enormous, and unhealthy conditions are inescapable. And for a y...
 |  | Christopher Cowlumbus (Hi Stories
Publication Date: April 2005 ...
|  | Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep
Release Date: August 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Nineteenth-century Cape Cod is the backdrop for this lyrical picturebook about a young girl waiting for her father to return from an ocean journey. As the seasons pass, her baby brother learns to walk, storms come and go, and the girl wonders how her father is and whether he's thinking of her, too. Susan Lendroth's gentle, rhyming text pairs with first-time illustrator Ra?ã‚Ñ¢l All?©n's stunning illustrations to produce a timeless tale about the absence of a parent, and the power of love to cro...
|  | Olla-Piska: Tales of David Douglas
Publication Date: April 30, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up "He was a quiet man, and he was a great one for writing." That's how young Sandy Ross first describes the great botanist and explorer David Douglas in this engaging new historical novel. Grounded in meticulous research about Douglas and his travels through the Pacific Northwest in 1824-25, "Olla Piska" provides an account of Douglas and a description of what life was like for many different people in the region in the years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Douglas's student, Sandy, who has run away from home t...
|  | Early Explorers of North America (Illustrated Living History)
Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Women Explorers in Africa (Capstone Short Biographies)
Publication Date: June 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Vikings (Pictures of the Past)
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|  | Women Explorers in Asia: Lucy Atkinson, Alexandra David-Neel, Dervla Murphy, Susie Carson Rijnhart, Freya Stark (Capstone Short Biographies)
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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|  | Women Explorers in North and South America (Capstone Short Biographies)
Publication Date: June 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Explorer (Eyewitness Books)
Release Date: October 1, 1991 ...
|  | A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North
Publication Date: April 23, 2001| Age Level: 6 and up "Sis casts a spell of enchantment . . . Jan Welzl never had a better friend." -- The Washington Post Book WorldOne hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart, traded the cart for a sled pulled by reindeer, and was gone for thirty years. Like Robinson Crusoe, he turned adversity into adventure and the wilderness into a dream, where anything could happen and anyone could be a hero. In this reissue of one of his earlier works, award-winning author/arti...
| | Diary of a Princess: A Tale from Marco Polos Travels
Publication Date: January 1, 2003The Khan of Persia's favorite wife has died, and Kublai Khan, emperor of all China, decrees that 17-year-old Princess Kokachin shall replace her. Excited to have been chosen, but scared of such a long journey to a foreign land, the princess feels safe knowing that her escort to Persia will be the great Venetian traveler, Marco Polo. The story is told in diary form, and Princess Kokachin's entries describe her long, dangerous sea voyage plagued by storms, disease, pirate attacks, and visions of monsters. Sheila recreate evocative illustrations re-create a fasc...
|  | The Klondike Cat
Publication Date: August 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Noah and his pa prepare to join the thousands of gold seekers heading for the Klondike. Pa insists the journey will be too long and too hard for a cat, but Noah just can't leave his pet, Shadow, behind. When Pa discovers the stowaway, Noah promises that Shadow will earn her keep. Will the cat be the burden Pa supposes, or will she prove to be worth her weight in gold? Filled with exciting real-life history and adventure, The Klondike Cat gives readers a unique glimpse into a time when hopes were high, dreams were b...
|  | Am I Big or Little?
Publication Date: February 1, 2002| Grade Level: P and up Can a little girl be both big and little at the same time? Of course she can! Big or little, she's the present Mommy always wanted-a big present in a little package. Cheerful text and cozy illustrations are sure to strike a familiar chord with little ones and grown-ups alike in this winning picture book, now available for the first time in paperback. ...
|  | Flying High
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up "[Jørgen] Stamp's illustrations harken back to Bill Peet in line, palette and sense of humor. Diagrammatic spreads and vignettes help to advance the story while telling visual jokes, and it's hard not to warm to the sight of the goggled Walter in his little red plane. Here's hoping for more to hit these shores."—Kirkus Reviews ...
|  | When Pioneer Wagons Rumbled West
Publication Date: July 1997| Age Level: 3 and up The challenges faced by the Mormon pioneers are brought vividly to life in this exciting book which recounts their dangerous trek and the routine of life on the trail. Full color. ...
|  | Wintering
Release Date: December 12, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of The Broken Blade, spends a winter with the North West Company in the wilderness of French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winter survival skills and secrets of the fur traders and trappers. Surviving in close quarters with the repulsive bowman Beloit is a challenge, but friendship with an Ojibwa brave opens up a rich new world to Pierre. ...
|  | Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Young Sacajawea has been asked to join Lewis and Clark in their exploration of the American West. As a translator, peacemaker, caretaker, and guide, Sacajawea made the historic journey of Lewis and Clark possible. This captivating novel which alternates between the points of view of Sacajawea and William Clark provides an intimate glimpse into what it would have been like to witness firsthand this fascinating time in our history. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Lost Treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean
Release Date: May 8, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up For centuries, the lore of swashbuckling pirates have captured our imaginations. But pirates really did exist, and they hid treasure in secret coves, on unknown islands, and in abandoned ports. And to keep track of their treasure, they made maps—crude, hand drawn maps that sometimes even the pirates themselves couldn’t read. But that all changed when the buccaneer Henry Morgan hired silversmith Elijah McGee to draw his treasure maps; this led to a dynasty of mapmakers. Until now, no one has been able to tell if McGee’s maps rea...
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