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Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-10-28 | Author:Allen Say [Say, Allen]

They made their home by the San Francisco Bay and had a baby girl. As his daughter grew, my grandfather began to think about his own childhood. He thought about ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures December 13,2017 )
Half a Life by Christopher Louis
epub |eng | 2012-08-12 | Author:Christopher Louis [Louis, Christopher]

Benjamin The trip to the book store had been better than Ben could have hoped for; David loved it. He wanted to look at everything and found so many things ...
( Category: Music December 11,2017 )
Let Your Voice Be Heard by Anita Silvey
epub |eng | | Author:Anita Silvey

7 Fighting Back Michael, row the boat ashore, Hallelujah! Then you’ll hear the trumpet blow Hallelujah! (Traditional spiritual) During those terrible years, Pete Seeger did what he did best—took action ...
( Category: Biographies December 9,2017 )
Hidden Child by Isaac Millman
epub |eng | | Author:Isaac Millman

Héna holding one of her great-grandsons, 1961 Héna with another great-grandson and her sister, Madame Laks, 1962 MADAME DEVOLDER “A good clean bath and a hard scrubbing with warm water ...
( Category: Biographies December 5,2017 )
TIME the Roosevelts by The Editors of TIME
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:The Editors of TIME

THE ACTIVE LIFE With Eleanor on Campobello Island, Canada, in 1920. Polio would strike the next year. After his first address on the banking crisis, in which he explained to ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 4,2017 )
Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Lila Perl

CHAPTER 6 “On the Death Train” “I don’t remember,” Marion said, “how we covered the distance of three to four miles to the railroad loading platform at the town of ...
( Category: Biographies December 3,2017 )
Leonardo Da Vinci* by Kathleen Krull
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...
( Category: Biographies December 3,2017 )
Who Was Paul Revere? by Roberta Edwards
mobi |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Roberta Edwards

Paul made a copper engraving of the scene to spread the news of what happened. (Again, he made a copy of someone else’s drawing.) Hundreds of people in Boston bought ...
( Category: History December 2,2017 )
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? by Roberta Edwards
epub |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Roberta Edwards [Edwards, Roberta]

Even so, Leonardo was very fond of Salai. He enjoyed spoiling him with presents. No matter how badly Salai behaved, Leonardo never asked him to leave. Salai stayed with him ...
( Category: Biographies December 2,2017 )
Who Is Jane Goodall? (Who Was...?) by Edwards Roberta
epub |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Edwards, Roberta [Edwards, Roberta]

HUMAN LANGUAGE? ACCORDING TO HER TEACHERS, WASHOE COULD ALSO “CREATE” A WORD WHEN SHE DIDN’T KNOW THE SIGN FOR SOMETHING. ON SEEING A SWAN, WASHOE MADE THE SIGNS FOR BOTH ...
( Category: Biographies December 2,2017 )
The Science Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by DK
mobi |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:DK

Discovering X-rays During his experiments, Hittorf noticed that photographic plates in the same room were becoming fogged, but he did not investigate this effect any further. Others observed similar effects, ...
( Category: Science, Nature & How It Works December 2,2017 )
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs by Gary Paulsen
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Gary Paulsen [Paulsen, Gary]

We were not to play. We were working, studying, thinking. Learning. And so that day passed. Not with me testing her but the opposite. She was finding out what I ...
( Category: Animals November 28,2017 )
A Two Pedal World: The Beginning (Book #1) by Paul Rega
epub |eng | 2014-06-19 | Author:Paul Rega [Rega, Paul]

11 Jerry was born in 1941 on the North West side of Chicago and is where he started his education in the city’s harsh public school system. He would later ...
( Category: Individual Sports November 23,2017 )
The Audition by Maddie Ziegler
epub |eng | | Author:Maddie Ziegler

CHAPTER 14 It wasn’t that bad,” my mother told me as she rewrapped the bandage Vanessa had given me to wrap around my banged-up knee. “Physically,” I muttered. Fortunately, I’d ...
( Category: Arts, Music & Photography November 23,2017 )
Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl by John Demos
epub |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:John Demos

PART THREE MOHAWK GIRL CHAPTER ELEVEN TRAGEDY STRIKES For the next few years, A’ongote’s life followed a quiet track. She had become like any other Kahnawàke girl, enjoying her family, ...
( Category: Biographies November 23,2017 )

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