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by David Milgrim
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Do you ever feel as stubborn as a mule? Or as chicken as a chicken? Of course you do. Everyone does.
In this lighthearted look at feelings, David Milgrim tenderly and humorously sketches the emotional range-from awkward to unnoticed, to really, rrrreally mad. Ultimately reassuring, this is a loving look at the normal, natural feelings we all have.
Lincoln's Last Days
The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Lincoln's Last Days is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic nights in American history—of how one gunshot changed the country forever. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's bestselling historical thriller, Killing Lincoln, this book will have young readers—and grown-ups too—hooked on history.
In...
Hitler's Last Days
The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva...
The Last Days of Jesus
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His contemporaries are familiar historical figures: Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate. It was an era of oppression, when every man, woman, and child answered to the brutal...
Mary Cassatt
Extraordinary Impressionist Painter
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Mary Cassatt was a headstrong, determined girl. She wanted to be an artist in 1860, a time when proper girls certainly weren't artists. It wasn't polite. But Mary herself wasn't polite. She pursued art with a passion, moving to Paris to study, painting what she saw. Her work was rejected by the Salon...
The Day the President Was Shot
The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength...
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?
The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors.
But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that...
Toys!
Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A fresh, intriguing look at the stories behind great toy inventions, by Don Wulffson and illustrated by Laurie Keller.
"Originally, Play-Doh only came in white. There's a good reason for this. You see, Play-Doh didn't start out as a toy. It started out as a product for cleaning wallpaper."
Have...
D-Day
The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 [The Young Readers Adaptation]
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day—June 6, 1944—the day that led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. They came by sea and by sky to reclaim freedom from the...
by Arlene Mosel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1968
This ebook includes audio narration.
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!
Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation...
Borrowed Names
Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.
Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own...
I Am Scout
The Biography of Harper Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing...
Wildly Romantic
The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution
Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.
In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through...
Blizzard of Glass
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating...