History
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Johanna Reiss [Reiss, Johanna]

7 I STRAINED my ears. Clip-clop, clip-clop. What was that noise outside? The little Groothuis boy? Where was he? In front of his house? Clip-clop, clip-clop. Jumping rope? Did he ...
( Category: History September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Jessie Haas

SIERRA! CHICO CHORTLED DEEP IN HIS THROAT. He missed her, living over here. Yes, he got ridden every day, but Misty didn’t pamper him the way Sierra did. She didn’t ...
( Category: Animals September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eleanor Coerr

“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 ...
( Category: History August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Sheinkin

Paul Tibbets stands in front of the Enola Gay on Tinian Island, August 6, 1945. THE PILOT LATE IN THE SUMMER OF 1944, at the Alamogordo Air Force Base in ...
( Category: History August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Deborah Hopkinson [Hopkinson, Deborah]

(Preceding image) A photograph showing Collapsible B, which washed off the deck of the Titanic upside down. Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer and others endured a tense night standing on the bottom ...
( Category: History August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

The bow is the name for the front end of a ship. “Lifeboats! What do they need of lifeboats?” said one woman. “This ship could smash a hundred icebergs and ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Johanna Reiss [Reiss, Johanna]

Part Three FALL & WINTER On the morning of the wedding a fine dr’v. zle was falling, dripping off trees and buildings as slowly as it collected. We were standing ...
( Category: History August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Jack and Annie followed Barry inside. In the dining hall, Barry bounded over to one of the large dog bowls and slurped water. He splashed more outside of the bowl ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Patricia McCormick

Later that summer, the German president, Paul von Hindenburg, a revered war hero, passed away. It was an emotional and patriotic moment when Hitler summoned his troops to a garrison ...
( Category: History August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne;Sal Murdocca

CHAPTER SEVEN Sam’s Farm “I don’t know,” said Jack. This was one of the worst things that had ever happened. He pressed his finger against Sam’s wrist to feel for ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-09-26 | Author:Louise, Louise [Louise, Louise]

At night, the streets of Paris had an eerie dark blue gleam from the blackout cloth on the streetlamps. The slow, loud whine of air raid sirens, mostly false alarms, ...
( Category: Biographies August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Celia Lottridge

11 The small white horse and the tall black one stood side by side on the wagon road. The two boys looked at each other. “Allo,” said Gregor. He smiled ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 28,2017 )
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 )
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 )
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 )