Biographies
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Annie turned and saw the jackals running toward her. “Oh, no!” she cried. Shrieking, Koku leapt from Annie’s arms and bounded across the dry, cracked ground. When the jackals saw ...
( Category: Chapter Books March 22,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roberta Edwards

BOSTON TEA PARTY IN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA ANGRY CROWDS PREVENTED BRITISH BOATS FROM UNLOADING CARGOES OF TEA. ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 16, 1773, MEN IN BOSTON WENT EVEN ...
( Category: Historical March 21,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-04 | Author:Gare Thompson

Franklin sent Eleanor flowers, poems, and books. And they talked. Some people thought that Eleanor could have chosen someone better. Not Eleanor. She said that she saw “the promise that ...
( Category: Historical February 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Seventeen [Seventeen]

Buddy up: Never swim alone; that way, someone can always call for help if you get in trouble. And always swim near a lifeguard. Keep your distance: Stay 100 feet ...
( Category: Being a Teen January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

* * * Drivers and cars had to be licensed in Britain from 1903 – but nobody was actually tested to see if they could drive a car until 1934. ...
( Category: Literary January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Roald Dahl

J is for Jelly Jelly ~ Jelly was Roald Dahl’s beautiful black Labrador-cross. Roald often told children that it was really Jelly who wrote the stories and he just took ...
( Category: Literary January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Sonia Manzano

It’s Saturday, the morning of my fourteenth birthday. “Happy birthday,” says Ma, handing me a box. Inside is a green dress so ugly it makes me mad. Not only because ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Gruenbaum

July 20, 1943 “AND THEN,” I SAY TO Mother, “then Otto—” “Otto?” she asks. “Otto Hirsch,” I say, “I told you already.” “Oh,” she says, and sits down on one ...
( Category: Multicultural November 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Warren, Andrea [Warren, Andrea]

Horses were essential for transportation, and Billy knew that horse stealing was big business. Escape was foremost in Billy’s mind. “I was . . . certain that I had uncovered ...
( Category: Historical November 4,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dan Howell & Phil Lester [Howell, Dan & Lester, Phil]

( Category: Performing Arts October 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-03 | Author:Unknown [Unknown]

The Forgotten Planet By Sewell Peaslee Wright I have been asked to record, plainly and without prejudice, a brief history of the Forgotten Planet. [Sidenote: The authentic account of why ...
( Category: Architecture October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-20 | Author:Gary Blackwood [Blackwood, Gary]

20 We were all of us momentarily struck dumb by this revelation. Though it had been clear all along that Garrett was hiding something, I doubt that anyone suspected what ...
( Category: Europe October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Livia Bitton-Jackson

Gina’s Secret Bratislava, November—December 1947 The lights are still on as I reach the dormitory. My roommates are preparing for bed. Malkele is nowhere to be seen, and I head ...
( Category: Holocaust October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Sarah Miller

Chapter 18 The little house is a genuine bit of paradise. —ANNE SULLIVAN TO SOPHIA HOPKINS, MARCH 1887 Helen holds out until just after noon. Percy comes in with the ...
( Category: United States October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Livia Bitton-Jackson

Chapter Thirteen I AM THE DOCTOR’S ASSISTANT On Sunday Alex is taking me to a performance of The King and I—my first Broadway show! For the occasion Mother sews a ...
( Category: 1900s October 11,2015 )