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Deborah Ann Kent · C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding - Revised Ed.

America the Beautiful, Third Series is bursting with fascinating facts, up-to-date statistics, glorious full-color photographs, and unusual lists guaranteed to elicit at least one WOW! with the turn of every page. America the Beautiful's new dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography,...
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Blackfire's Back!

Larry Stucker · DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

Starfires big sister Blackfire is back with a vengeance! Will the rest of the Teen Titans become victims of this super-sibling rivalry? Follow Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire as these teenage super heroes team up to take down super-villains and schoolwork alike. Each book...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1

Eric Shanower , · Abdo Pub Co

IntroductionFolklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish...
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All-New X-Men Volume 6: The Ultimate Adventure

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Dimension-hopping is something of an X-Men rite of passage, and it's about time the All-New X-Men took the plunge! You don't always have to travel Miles away to visit a new place...but will the Web these time-displaced young X-Men find themselves tangled in Ultimately bring about...
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A Woman in the House

Ilene Cooper · Harry N Abrams Inc
Pages: 134
Format: Hardcover

For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress - even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave...
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The Girls of Gettysburg

Bobbi Miller · Holiday House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Pickett's Charge, the suicidal assault led by Robert E. Lee on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, was a valiant effort but stunning defeat for the Rebel army. It serves as the powerful climax of this Civil War novel, told from the viewpoints of three girls.Twelve-year-old Annie...
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A Visit to a Space Station: Fantasy Science Field Trips

Claire Throp · Raintree
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Books in the Fantasy Field Trips series take the reader on field trips to the most unlikely of destinations! In this book, strap yourself in as we prepare to blast off to explore a space station far above the Earth's surface. Our 'tour' includes a look at daily life on board,...
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The Wizard and the Wormhole

Michael Dahl · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 121
Format: Print book

Abracadabra, the founder of the Hocus Pocus Hotel has vanished! Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu team up again to solve this mystery and find their friend. But their investigation goes off track two new magicians are at the hotel and the boys are caught up in their performance. Charlie is suspicious...
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Silver

Christine Petersen · ABDO Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Describes what silver is; and discusses the different uses for silver, the role of silversmiths, silver mining; and highlights the top silver-producing countries.
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Catwoman Gets Busted by the Batman

Bill Matheny · DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

A thief is stealing priceless diamonds in Gotham City, and the cops are hot on the trail of Catwoman for the crime. Batman knows she's innocent, but will he be able to stop the police before they catch the wrong cat burglar? These super hero comics focus on the Dark Knight's early...
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