epub |eng | 2014-07-19 | Author:Rob Staeger

The kayak was made by stretching sealskin over a frame pieced together with driftwood and antlers. The boat’s pilot would fit into a small hole that pressed tight against his ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:Cynthia Lord

At the beginning of summer it always feels like there’s so much time ahead: whole empty calendar pages of sunshine, warm sea breezes, midnight thunderstorms, and running barefoot in the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ginger Wadsworth

General Sir Robert Baden-Powell was a military hero in Britain. He built on his childhood and army experiences to found the Boy Scout organization. Scout Association Trustees Billow and his ...

epub |eng | | Author:Steve Sheinkin

PROSECUTION THE MUTINY TRIAL on Treasure Island was a minor story in most newspapers, overshadowed by bigger articles on American forces battling in Western Europe and the Pacific. But to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-19 | Author:Matt Christopher [Christopher, Matt]

CHAPTER SEVEN 1991–1992 A Couple of Scars Michael Jordan could at last add “NBA champion” to his list of outstanding accomplishments. But he still wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to win ...

mobi |eng | 2001-10-01 | Author:Matt Christopher [Christopher, Matt]

CHAPTER NINE 1997-1998 One Step at a Time Bryant knew he had to work harder if he was ever to achieve the level of success he expected from himself in ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Trinka Hakes Noble

All at once, our drums begin to beat. Louder and louder they pound until they become the very heartbeat of the earth. My heart beats with the drums until it ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:A. Kramer

In prison Once in prison, Mandela was stripped and ordered to put on prison uniform – short trousers, rough khaki shirt, canvas jacket, socks, sandals and cloth cap. Racism existed ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yoko Kawashima Watkins

SIX THE TRACKS SEPARATED, HEADING IN two directions. Hideyo stood there. Which way? He looked at the sun, which was going down, and using the sun as his guide, he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:James Bruchac

KEEWAHKWEE (PENOBSCOT) The story of the cannibal ogre who hides its face from the child it had stolen to fatten up can be found throughout Algonquin traditions. Unlike the giants, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:Lauren Tarshis [Tarshis, Lauren]

There were at least fifty more Union soldiers with them. “We have you surrounded,” the captain said. “We will shoot every one of you if you don’t put your rifles ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Karen Levine

Hana drew this picture of people getting off a train while she was at Theresienstadt. At the front of the line, a soldier asked people for their name, age and ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-26 | Author:Nawuth Keat

Chapter Seven CROSS FIRE “The Vietnamese are entering the cities!” Van Lan told me in a low voice as I was just about to fall asleep one night. “They will ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Deborah Ellis

I was part of the Freedom Train that went across the country to protest the pipeline. I loved being on the train with all the other people from other First ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Bruchac [Bruchac, Joseph]

15. POCAHONTAS: Corn Although the corn, like all good things, was made by Ahone, it is said that corn was not owned by all the people at first. Those who ...