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Who Was Louis Braille?
Margaret Frith · Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC., Pages: 104 Format: Print book
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Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred... |
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Madam C.j. Walker and Her Beauty Empire
Caitie McAneney · PowerKids Press Pages: 32 Format: Print book
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Before Madam C.J. Walker launched a line of beauty and hair products for black women, she was Sarah Breedlove, a washerwoman in rural Louisiana. This title presents Walkers fascinating biography, tracing her life from a childhood in poverty to becoming Americas first female self-made millionaire.... |
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Curiosity
Jaleigh Johnson · Dial Format: Kindle Edition
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Publishers Weekly04/14/2014
In a brisk historical novel set in the early 19th century, a young hunchback named Rufus lands a job that makes use of his chess abilities after his father is thrown into debtors' prison. Rufus controls an automaton called the Turk, secretly crawling inside... |
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Algeria
Martin Hintz · Children's Press Pages: 144 Format: Print book
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After more than 100 years of French rule, the nation of Algeria achieved independence in 1962 after a long, bloody war. Today, the largest country in Africa is a land of vibrant culture. Readers will find out how people live in Algeria, from what they eat and how they dress to how their... |
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Family Tree Book Three: Best Kept Secret
Ann M. Martin · Scholastic Press Format: Audiobook
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Four girls. Four generations. One family.The third installment of the exquisite new series from Newbery Honor winner Ann M. Martin follows Francie, Dana's daughter, to Princeton, NJ, in the 1980s. |
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Desert ecosystems
Tammy Gagne · Core Library Pages: 48 Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This title will introduce readers to desert ecosystems, the plants and animals that thrive there, its climate, its food web, any threats to it, and conservation efforts. Readers will also learn about the most well known deserts and their characteristics. |
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The Magisterium
Holly Black · Scholastic Press Pages: 249 Format: Print book
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From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the third installment in the New York Times bestselling series that defies what you think you know about the worlds of good and evil. |
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Lola
Ellen Miles · Scholastic Inc. Pages: 96 Format: Print book
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home.When Charles and his friends find Lola stuck outside right before a rain storm, they have a tough decision to make. They know the French... |
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The Library: Mysterious Messenger
D J Machale · Random House Books for Young Readers Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Leave the lights on for this first book in a new thriller series! The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Pendragon invites you to enter The Library, where the stories you can't finish just might finish you. There's a place beyond this world where spirits tell their tales - stories... |
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A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
Deborah Hopkinson · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 290 Format: Print book
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From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City.Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken... |
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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
Gretchen Woelfle · Calkins Creek Books Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining... |
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Sticks & Stones
Sarah Mlynowski · Scholastic Press Pages: 193 Format: Hardcover
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Nory, Bax, and their friends are in a special class at Dunwiddle Magic School, a class for children whose magic is unpredictable--and while Nory is finding an outlet for her dritten-self (a combination of a kitten and dragon) , in the kittenball team, Bax is worried because all he can do is turn... |
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