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Who Was Sacagawea? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Who Was...? (PB))
Author: Dennis Fradin
ISBN-10: 0613436555
ISBN-13: 9780613436557
Published: 2002-02-01
Publisher: Turtleback
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Book Description:
THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Black-and-white illustrations on every spread and a lower reading level than other biographies in this age group makes this a highly accessible biography for upper elementary students.
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Maps and Globes (Reading Rainbow Book)
Author: Jack Knowlton
ISBN-10: 0064460495
ISBN-13: 9780064460491
Published: 1986-05-23
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Maps and globes can take you anywhere -- to the top of the tallest mountain on earth or the bottom of the deepest ocean. Maps tell you about the world: where various countries are located, where the jungles and deserts are, even how to find your way around your own hometown. If you take a fancy to any place on earth, you can go there today and still be home in time for dinner. So open a map, spin a globe. The wide world awaits you.
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Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President (Step Into Reading: A Step 3 Book (Pb))
Author: Shirley-Raye Redmond
ISBN-10: 0756916976
ISBN-13: 9780756916978
Published: 2003-05-01
Publisher: Perfection Learning
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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark out west to explore. He tells them to make maps. He tells them to draw pictures and collect plants. Most importantly, he tells them to send presents! What kind of present is good enough for a president? Beginning readers will truly enjoy reading about this fun and little-known slice of American history.
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
Author: Brian Floca
ISBN-10: 141695046X
ISBN-13: 9781416950462
Published: 2009-04-07
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
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Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. Here is a story of adventure and discovery -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away.
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Who Was Marco Polo?
Author: Joan Holub
ISBN-10: 0448445409
ISBN-13: 9780448445403
Published: 2007-07-05
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien.
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DK Readers: Astronaut, Living in Space (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone)
Author: Deborah Lock
ISBN-10: 0789454211
ISBN-13: 9780789454218
Published: 2000-04-01
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
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Book Description:
With Eyewitness Readers, children will learn to read ---- then read to learn! What does it take to hold down a job in zero gravity? Find out what it's really like to be an Astronaut: Living in Space. Longer sentences and an expanded vocabulary make this series of 48--page books slightly more challenging: Level 2 is appropriate for children who have started to read but still need help. Information boxes full of background information will stimulate inquisitive minds. These books contain between 700 and 850 words, and they are approximately 70 percent pictures and 30 percent text. The Dorling Kindersley Readers combine an enticing visual layout with high--interest, easy--to--read stories to captivate and delight young bookworms who are just getting started. Written by leading children's authors and compiled in consultation with literacy experts, these engaging books build reader confidence along with a lifelong appreciation for nonfiction, classic stories, and biographies. There is a DK Reader to interest every child at every level, from preschool to grade 4.
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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 (Downtown Bookworks Books)
Author: Charles C. Mann
ISBN-10: 1416949003
ISBN-13: 9781416949008
Published: 2009-09-08
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Book Description:
A companion book for young readers based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking bestseller by Charles C. Mann.
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The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (Scientists in the Field Series)
Author: Sy Montgomery
ISBN-10: 054724892X
ISBN-13: 9780547248929
Published: 2009-10-19
Publisher: Sandpiper
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It looks like a bear, but isn’t one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey— but isn’t a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what’s a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie’s tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea’s cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
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Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
Author: Byron Barton
ISBN-10: 006443298X
ISBN-13: 9780064432986
Published: 1993-04-30
Publisher: HarperCollins
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A long time ago there were dinosaurs. Big dinosaurs and small dinosaurs. Dinosaurs with horns on their heads or spikes down their backs. Dinosaurs with long, long necks and long, long tails. Imaginatively and with a masterful use of color, shape and composition, Bryon Barton brings to life a unique and endearing vision of what the world may have looked like once upon a time. A long time ago there was dinosaurs. Big dinosaurs and small dinosaurs. Dinosaurs with horns on their heads or spikes down their backs. Dinosaurs with long, long necks and long, long tails.Imaginatively and with a masterful use of color, shape and composition, Byron Barton brings to life unique and endearing vision of what the world may have looked like once upona time. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1989 (NSTA/CBC)Science Books and Films -- Editor's ChoiceScience Books and Films -- Best Children's Science Book List
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
ISBN-10: 0375810498
ISBN-13: 9780375810497
Published: 2000-09-12
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
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The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback.In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Five months later and still 100 miles from land, their ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The expedition survived another five months camping on ice floes, followed by a perilous journey through stormy seas to remote and unvisited Elephant Island. In a dramatic climax to this amazing survival story, Shackleton and five others navigated 800 miles of treacherous open ocean in a 20-foot boat to fetch a rescue ship.Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World vividly re-creates one of the most extraordinary adventure stories in history. Jennifer Armstrong narrates this unbelievable story with vigor, an eye for detail, and an appreciation of the marvelous leadership of Shackleton, who brought home every one of his men alive.
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