Search Results: Returned 15 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 15
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2015., Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were both orphaned at ayoung age, and they both became successful lawyers. They both fought in the Revolutionary War. But the politics of the young United States of America put these Founding Fathers in constant conflict.
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c2006, Pre-adolescent, Darby Creek Pub Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Alexander was left in charge of Macedon when his father, the king, went on a business trip. When a barbarian tribe attacked Macedon, Alexander led the army against them, and won! By 18, Alexander was named a general of the army; at 20 he ruled all of Ancient Greece; at 25 he had conquered most of ancient Persia. By 32, he was really King of the World!
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2000., Juvenile, Dorling Kindersley Call No: 623.8 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Eyewitness booksSummary Note: A history of the development and uses of boats, ships, and rafts, from birch-bark canoes to luxury liners.
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2006., Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: F DEF Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the mid-1800s, twelve-year-old Nathan journeys from his farm on the Ohio frontier to Western Pennsylvania to rescue a friend held captive by the owners of a freak show.
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2004, Pre-adolescent, Orchard Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
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c2000., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. with arrangement with Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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2009., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In the early twentieth century, five sisters travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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[2015]., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!.
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2013., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 973.3 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1775, in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox and his men dragged 120,000 pounds of cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, NY, to Boston--225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and very few roads. It was a feat of remarkable ingenuity and determination and one of the most remarkable stories of the Revolutionary War.
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2015., Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself - because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of - a woman with a future.
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2013., Juvenile, Yearling Call No: FIC SMILEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California"--Provided by publisher.
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2006, Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In London in the 1680s, Meg--now sixteen years old--tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men who court her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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1956., Viking Press Call No: 811 DAU Middle School Library Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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By Sakany, Lois2004., Pre-adolescent, Rosen Pub. Call No: 973.7 85 0922 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the lives of six women who fought to preserve the Union, and to support abolition and women's rights, by serving as spies during the Civil War.