epub |eng | | Author:Larry Dane Brimner

When rain began falling in San Diego, many people were caught unaware when normally dry washes became raging torrents of water. Many of San Diego’s backcountry bridges—including this railroad bridge—were ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Teri Kanefield

A copy of one of Benjamin Franklin’s letters to Suzy, sent April 28, 1755. The idea evidently worked. Franklin got the word to the various townships and succeeded in gathering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Candace Fleming

REVOLUTIONARY MEMORABILIA Those who give up essential liberty to preserve a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty, nor safety. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1759 The War Before The dispute between England and ...

epub |eng | | Author:James L. Swanson

Lincoln’s funeral car. Chapter Ten But this transformation had not yet taken place as the train approached Baltimore. The whole state of Maryland, and Baltimore in particular, were known for ...

mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:James L. Swanson

Lincoln’s funeral car. Chapter Ten But this transformation had not yet taken place as the train approached Baltimore. The whole state of Maryland, and Baltimore in particular, were known for ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2004-04-11 | Author:Coerr, Eleanor [Coerr, Eleanor]

“That isn’t important,” Kenji said. “The poison was in my mother’s body and I got it from her.” Sadako wanted so much to comfort him, but she didn’t know what ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Roehm McCann

More than fifty years have passed since the Dalai Lama’s escape, and Tibet is still not free. Chinese immigrants now outnumber Tibetans, and the country’s ancient religion and traditions are ...

epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Hoose

Letter from Kaj Munk to Edvard Pedersen * * * Kaj Munk Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, commonly called Kaj Munk (1898–1944), was a Danish playwright, poet, Lutheran priest, and activist. ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Golding, Vautier [Golding, Vautier]

CHAPTER VI The Upper Shiré and Lake Nyassa ON his return from Linyanté to Teté, Livingstone once more went on board the Asthmatic, and started to meet his new steamer ...