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Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Brown Don
mobi |eng | 2008-06-16 | Author:Brown, Don [Brown, Don]

When Albert is about fifteen, his father's business takes the family to Milan, Italy. But before Albert can leave Germany, the law says he must serve in the military. So ...
( Category: Science, Nature & How It Works August 28,2017 )
The Magician and the Spirits by Deborah Noyes
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Deborah Noyes

Houdini speaks of mediums hiring “a quiet couple for the express purpose of attending funerals, mixing with the mourners, and gathering information.” The culprits would “dress some little woman demurely ...
( Category: Biographies August 28,2017 )
Last Airlift by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

6-1 — Tuyet’s adoption order Chapter Six Tuyet’s Turn Tuyet sat at a table alone, clutching the doll she had been given on her first night at Surrey Place. She ...
( Category: Biographies August 28,2017 )
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kwame Alexander

Third Wheel You walk into the library, glance over at the music section. You look through the magazines. You even sit at a desk and pretend to study. You ask ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 28,2017 )
The Harlem Hellfighters by Walter Dean Myers
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Dean Myers

9 SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA The summer of 1917 was hot and muggy. The cramped Harlem tenements were nearly unbearable at nights, and many Harlem residents slept on rooftops and fire ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 28,2017 )
Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn Meyer [Meyer, Carolyn]

THAT NIGHT King Henry stormed into my apartments and flung himself into his chair, one of the few chairs in the palace and kept there for his sole use. "Outrage!" ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 28,2017 )
I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 by Lauren Tarshis
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:Lauren Tarshis [Tarshis, Lauren]

It was getting dark when they arrived. The fighting had ended for the day, and at first, the news about the day’s fighting seemed grim: The Union troops had been ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 28,2017 )
Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carolyn Meyer [Meyer, Carolyn]

WHEN I ARRIVED at Somerset House, I first had to acknowledge the salutes of the guards, the gentlemen who attended me, the servants, my own ladies-in-waiting. My legs were still ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 28,2017 )
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Patricia Brennan Demuth

FALSE FRONTS MOST STORES IN FRONTIER TOWNS HAD FALSE FRONTS TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS. THEY WERE “TRYING TO MAKE BELIEVE THAT THE BUILDINGS WERE TWO STORIES HIGH,” LAURA WROTE IN LITTLE ...
( Category: Biographies August 28,2017 )
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler
epub |eng | | Author:Donn Fendler

CHAPTER 9 I HEAR AN AIRPLANE • SIXTH DAY A GENTLE breeze was blowing across that hill and it kept the flies and mosquitoes away from me. For once I ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 28,2017 )
The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
epub |eng | | Author:Margarita Engle

Tula I seize the kitchen as my own. Chop, stir, scribble— my punishment is a blessing of privacy. Mamá hardly ever steps into the smoke, so I feel free to ...
( Category: Biographies August 28,2017 )
Tribe by Zimmerman R.D
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Zimmerman, R.D. [Zimmerman, R.D.]

When an answering machine picked up after the fourth ring and announced that she'd reached a particular business office, she recognized the deep voice. Okay, she said to herself, don't ...
( Category: Biographies August 27,2017 )
Sefarad by Muñoz Molina Antonio
epub | | 2009-12-13 | Author:Muñoz Molina, Antonio [Muñoz Molina, Antonio]

( Category: Short Stories August 27,2017 )
Historia del rey transparente by Montero Rosa
epub | | 2009-11-08 | Author:Montero, Rosa [Montero, Rosa]

–Sin embargo, vuestra posada está llena, y también la de vuestro competidor… A la mujeruca se le ilumina el semblante: –Eso es un milagro… El milagro de San Caballero. Pero ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense August 27,2017 )
Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Christy Jordan-Fenton

See photo on page. ONE EVENING IN OCTOBER, after a hard day of the Raven’s education, I sat over my bowl of cabbage soup in the long dining hall, watching ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 26,2017 )

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