History
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Laura Amy Schlitz [SCHLITZ, LAURA AMY]

When Heinrich Schliemann dug at Hissarlik, he was hoping to find Homer’s city of Troy. Instead, he found many cities, one on top of the other. Sorting out the different ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:Kathy Kacer [Kacer, Kathy]

Every edition of Klepy included a sign-off sheet asking readers to sign their name and comment on that edition. On this sheet John writes, “First class. The newspaper gets better ...
( Category: History October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Gary Paulsen

HE BOY followed Gustaf as he walked to the cook trailer. All the other men had stopped the trucks and were walking to the cook trailer as well, and the ...
( Category: History October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-25 | Author:Tomas, J. [Tomas, J.]

Chapter 17 If I had thought Sinda would be sad to see us go, I was sorely mistaken. She walked with us to the platform with the turnstile, where we ...
( Category: History October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Kristiana Gregory

From a distance this sloped rock looks like a bear sleeping on its side. Up close, it’s huge and easy to climb. Folks have been going up to the top ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Marc Aronson

Urzúa used his mapping skills to figure out how the men could make best use of the mine—setting up one room for games and recreation, another as a chapel for ...
( Category: History October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Magali Favre

Gaétan is sleeping on the sofa when Richard and Patrick, his two brothers, jump on top of him. Their hands are like ice and their cheeks are rosy. His mother ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Terry Deary

* * * 11 DECEMBER – 30 DECEMBER: DAYS OF THE DESCENT OF WATER 14 DECEMBER It’s wet. That’s why they call these days the ‘Days of the Descent of ...
( Category: History October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roberta Edwards

The biggest pyramid belonged to a pharaoh named Cheops. It took approximately one hundred thousand workers twenty years to complete. The body of Cheops was placed deep inside, in a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Marion Fargey Brooker

By the end of the Battle of the Somme, in spite of their limitations, tanks had proven themselves as weapons with great potential for the future battles of the war. ...
( Category: Education & Reference October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Martha Brenner [Murphy, Frank]

Abe’s horse was skinny and slow. His name was Old Buck. Abe and Old Buck traveled lonely country roads. In the snow. In the rain. In the mud. Traveling made ...
( Category: History October 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Mary Hoffman

Why I Chose Aphra Behn I chose to write about Aphra Behn because she did so much to blaze the writing trail for the many women who followed her. She ...
( Category: History October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]

5 Girl evacuee aged seven: One thing that upset me was that the only farm worker was not allowed to sit at the table with the family. He had to ...
( Category: History October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:David Stabler [Stabler, David]

Franklin didn’t say a word about where he had been or what he had done. His parents were mystified. Was he out wrestling a bear? Was he running atop a ...
( Category: Biographies October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Virginia Hamilton [Hamilton, Virginia]

13 May 28, 1854 SUNDAY CAME ALL TOO soon, with still more rumors. It was said that the Federal government had sent telegrams that did not favor Anthony Burns’ release. ...
( Category: History October 2,2017 )