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Introduces readers to algebra by using simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve equations.
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Complete with archival images and period maps, a comprehensive guide to the colonial history of the state of North Carolina provides a look at its founders, diverse immigrants, and significant battles, including the Battle at Moore's Creek Bridge.
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The cabin boy on the "Santa Maria" keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492.
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Introduces three geometric concepts as the stars from "Monsters in the Neighborhood" calculate the perimeter of the set, the area of the movie screen, and the volume of a box of popcorn.
87. Phoebe the spy
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During the Revolution, Phoebe Fraunces has a chance to save the life of General George Washington while he has dinner at Mortier House in New York City.
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Known as the Father of the Constitution, James Madison served two terms as the fourth president, from 1809 until 1817. Determined that all Americans be treated fairly, he devised our three branches of government and drafted the Bill of Rights. When the British set fire to Washington D.C. in 1814, his wife Dolley saved one of our country's greatest treasures, a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart which now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution,...
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On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball. Includes facts about Jackie Robinson's life and career.
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A history of US volume 7.
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A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
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A biography of Benjamin Franklin which emphasis his accomplishments in a wide range of different fields or occupations.
Biography of the man who was a publisher, inventor, scientist, and one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence.
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3 stars
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An account of the friendship between the first American president when he was an officer in the Continental Army and the young Marquis de Lafayette describes how the latter came to America to offer his services before earning a military position and Washington's admiration.
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Rush Revere volume 1.
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2.7 stars
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Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.
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The states become bored with their positions on the map and decide to change places for a while. Also includes facts about the states.
The states become bored with their positions on the map and decide to change places for a while. Includes facts about the states.
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In the late eighteenth century, eleven-year-old Matt befriends an Indian boy of the Beaver clan who helps him survive alone in the wilderness.
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
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Sir Cumference math adventures volume 6.
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5 stars
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When Sir Cumference and his wife, Lady Di of Ameter, host a massive surprise birthday party for the king, they must figure out quick a way to count all the guests that are in attendance.
When Sir Cumference and his wife, Lady Di of Ameter, host a massive surprise birthday party for the king, they must quickly figure out a way to count all the guests that are in attendance.