What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)
By: Janet B. Pascal
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire …
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1. Who Was Sojourner Truth?
By: Yona Zeldis McDonough , Jim Eldridge
4.23
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated … read more
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2. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston
3.70
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent … read more
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"Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival."-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged b…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were dr…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
3. Bound for Oregon
By: R.W. Alley , James Watling , Jean Van Leeuwen
3.86
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a… read more
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4. My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage
By: Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
4.14
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora … read more
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5. A Treasury Of Poetry For Young People
By: Gary D. Schmidt , Brod Bagert , Frances Schoonmaker , Jonathan Levin
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This volume combines the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Longfellow, Poe, Carl Sandberg and Walt Whitman… read more
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6. World War II: The Rest Of The Story And How It Affects You Today, 1930 To September 11, 2001
By: Richard J. Maybury , Jane A. Williams
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An examination of the ideas and events that led to World War II, events during the war, and how the… read more
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7. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)
By: Paul O. Zelinsky , Beverly Cleary
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Beverly Cleary's timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecu… read more
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8. An Age of Extremes 1880-1917 (A History of US #8)
By: Joy Hakim
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
For the captains of industry--men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henr… read more
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9. Bonanza Girl
By: Patricia Beatty
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Katherine Scott, a widow, leaves Portland, Oregon, with her two children for the Idaho gold fields … read more
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10. Who Was Marie Curie?
By: Megan Stine , Ted Hammond
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only Univ… read more
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11. Elijah of Buxton
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel f… read more
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12. Rules of the Road (Rules of the Road, #1)
By: Joan Bauer
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11" at 16 y… read more
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14. A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
By: Richard Peck
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w… read more
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15. Where Is the Eiffel Tower?
By: Tim Foley , Dina Anastasio
3.67
Format: 364 pages,
Learn about the Eiffel Tower, beloved and iconic symbol of Paris, France, and one of the most recog… read more
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16. A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890
By: Joy Hakim
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. The Slopes of War
By: None
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg … read more
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18. Moonshiner's Son
By: Carolyn Reeder
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbid… read more
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19. The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War
By: Albert Marrin
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Describes how American military forces helped the Allies turn the tide of World War I and how the U… read more
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20. A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
By: Richard Peck
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influen… read more
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21. Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt?
By: Nancy Harrison , Gare Thompson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...until E… read more
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22. The View from Saturday
By: E.L. Konigsburg
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more
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23. Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #3)
By: Laurence Yep
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden … read more
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24. Who Was Susan B. Anthony?
By: Pam Pollack
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women’s rights had personal root… read more
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25. What Is a Solar Eclipse? (Who HQ Now)
By: Dana Meachen Rau
3.76
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn about the phenomenon of a solar eclipse just in time for the Great American Eclipse that will… read more
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26. What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)
By: Janet B. Pascal
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire … read more
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27. Where Are the Constellations? (Where Is?)
By: Stephanie Sabol
4.03
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Calling all stargazers, this addition to the New York Times bestselling series is sure to be the pe… read more
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28. Where Is Walt Disney World?
By: Joan Holub
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Building the most magical place on earth was no fairy tale. Learn the story behind the creation of … read more
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29. Who Was Henry VIII?
By: Ellen Labrecque
4.10
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Travel to the age of the Renaissance and learn why Henry VIII is one of the most … read more
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30. Where Is Niagara Falls? (Where Is?)
By: Megan Stine
4.23
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
While traveling through Canada in 1678, a French priest came across the most gigantic waterfalls he… read more
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31. Who Is Katie Ledecky? (Who HQ Now)
By: James Buckley Jr.
4.00
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn how a young girl who loved being in the water became one of the greatest Olympic swimmers of … read more
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