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Sir Cumference math adventures volume 4.
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Sir Cumference, Radius, and Sir Vertex search for Edgecalibur, the sword that King Arthur has hidden in a geometric solid.
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In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their Manhattan home.
103. Snowflake Bentley
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A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
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Here is a look at the life and influences of Charles Schulz, creator of the beloved comic strip Peanuts.
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"In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of spies on both the British and American sides"--
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A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
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Documents the heroic wartime achievements of a World War I mascot who was adopted by a soldier as an orphaned pup and who gained military honors and a display in the Smithsonian Institution for his brave service behind enemy lines.
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Presents the Battle of Gettysburg from all sides with eyewitness accounts, archival photographs, and the latest research.
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In 1942, thirteen-year-old Taffy, living with her grandfather on Hatteras Island, inadvertently helps capture Nazi spies responsible for passing information to offshore German submarines engaged in torpedoing American ships.
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In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Percé girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
111. Time zones
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Discusses the reasons for time differences in different parts of the world and the history behind the division of the world into twenty-four time zones.
112. Toliver's secret
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During the Revolutionary War, ten-year-old Ellen Toliver experiences a series of mishaps as she attempts to deliver to General Washington a message hidden inside a loaf of bread.
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A look at how the Wright Brothers became the first celebrities of the twentieth century through their 1909 public flying exhibitions in New York City and Germany.
114. Uncle Sam
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"Simple text and full-color photographs briefly describe the iconic Uncle Sam image and its role as a national symbol"--Provided by publisher.
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A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.
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Move over Project Runway. Get ready to chuckle your way through centuries of fashion dos and don'ts! In this humorous and approachable narrative, kids will learn about outrageous, politically-perilous, funky, disgusting, regrettable, and life-threatening creations people have worn throughout the course of human history, all the way up to the present day. From spats and togas to hoop skirts and hair shirts, why people wore what they did is an illuminating...
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Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut.
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Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe life for women and girls in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts.