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Happy Birthday to You! by Margot Theis Raven
epub |eng | | Author:Margot Theis Raven

One night, Mildred, who shared Papa’s love of the heavens, met with friends who viewed the sky through telescopes. “Send me some Milky Way!” they laughed when departing. Mildred heard ...
( Category: Biographies April 13,2018 )
Eugene Bullard by Larry Greenly
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Larry Greenly [Greenly, Larry]

The gates to the Avord School of Aviation, one of the largest in France, where Bullard learned how to fly. Flying the latest types of planes, Bullard had to practice ...
( Category: Cars, Trains & Things That Go April 13,2018 )
Kid's Guide to Los Angeles County by Eileen Ogintz
epub |eng | 2014-06-20 | Author:Eileen Ogintz

■ For leather sandals and woven blankets, check out Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown LA, which has stalls selling everything from woven blankets to candles (between Cesar ...
( Category: United States April 13,2018 )
Evolution by Carla Mooney
epub |eng | | Author:Carla Mooney

Transitional fossils help to fill in gaps in the fossil record. As scientists find more and more transitional fossils, they can refine and confirm evolutionary theories. In one example, scientists ...
( Category: History April 11,2018 )
Troy by Homer
epub |eng | 2018-02-16 | Author:Homer [Samuel Butler]

BOOK XV Jove awakes, tells Apollo to heal Hector, and the Trojans again become victorious. But when their flight had taken them past the trench and the set stakes, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
Bound by Ice by Sandra Neil Wallace
epub |eng | 2017-04-09 | Author:Sandra Neil Wallace

George W. De Long Journal JUNE 20TH, MONDAY At no time of the year is traveling worse than at present. In the winter or spring months it is, of course, ...
( Category: Polar Regions April 9,2018 )
Rescuing the Children by Deborah Hodge
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Deborah Hodge [Hodge, Deborah]

Sailing with the children from the orphanage were about 190 other Jewish refugees. Many more had tried to escape on the ship, but time had run out before they could ...
( Category: History April 9,2018 )
Little America by Helen Foster James
epub |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Helen Foster James

Answer: Cow boy Riddle 7 A national park is a treasured space. This park is “grand” and a beautiful place. Answer: Grand Canyon Riddle 8 In Washington, D.C.you’re sure to ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures April 8,2018 )
W is for Windy City by Steven L. Layne & Deborah Dover Layne
epub |eng | 2010-04-08 | Author:Steven L. Layne & Deborah Dover Layne

P Proudly referred to as Chicago’s “front yard,” Grant Park is among the city’s loveliest and most prominent parks. The park was named for Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures April 8,2018 )
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Carolyn Meyer [Meyer, Carolyn]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Reginald Pole The sun dipped low, and servants went from chamber to chamber, lighting the candles. I stood by the open window, the weather being unusually mild for ...
( Category: Biographies April 8,2018 )
Who Was Fidel Castro? by Sarah Fabiny & Ted Hammond
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Sarah Fabiny & Ted Hammond

And who was waiting for Fidel and his men? Batista’s forces! Batista had learned of the rebels’ plan and was ready for them. Airplanes and patrol boats shot at Fidel ...
( Category: History April 8,2018 )
A Weird and Wild Beauty by Erin Peabody
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Erin Peabody

One of Yellowstone’s steaming landscapes. Gold hunters who had marched through the area in 1867 called it Hell.129 A similar scene in Yellowstone reminded European tourist Lord Dunraven of a ...
( Category: History April 8,2018 )
When the Children Marched by Robert H. Mayer
epub |eng | 2008-04-07 | Author:Robert H. Mayer [Mayer, Robert H.]

Image Credit: Associated Press Folk singer Joan Baez performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1963. I have never in my life had an experience like ...
( Category: History April 7,2018 )
Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction by Kevin Sylvester
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Sylvester

( Category: Mysteries & Detectives April 7,2018 )
The Queen and the Nobody Boy by Barbara Else
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Barbara Else

23 how to travel to the Zoo At the side door, Hodie expected them to hire another ogre carriage. Instead, Lu’nedda waved a hand, and two low-slung cycle-chairs rolled up, ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures April 7,2018 )

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