Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene. Or so it appears. [...]
Rating: (66 reviews)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: Signet Classics
Book Description
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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If it’s Wednesday, it must be Revolutionary War day. Jack and Annie, stars of the Magic Tree House series, are in for another adventure in their time- and space-traveling tree house. Mysterious magical librarian Morgan le Fay [...]
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Book Description
Scoring high on the AP U.S. History Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about American history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP U.S. History [...]
Author: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens, H.C. Andersen
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
Rating: (147 reviews)
Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Mariner
Book Description
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters’ inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers’ finest work, [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Steven L. Layne, Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Johnny Ray Moore
Publisher: Ideals Publications
Book Description
This little boardbook uses only approximately 200 words to tell about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to explain, in simple terms, how he ended segegation in America
Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
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To 11-year-old Minnie Swift, Christmas, 1932, is not going to be the time of bounty she’s used to. Instead, it has become the “Time of the Dwindling.” The Great Depression has changed everything: Minnie’s father is working fewer and fewer hours, her [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Although most grownups know Roddy Doyle better from his Barrytown comic novels (including The Commitments), he’s thankfully returned for a children’s book follow-up to his ridiculously ridiculous The Giggler Treatment. What’s the cast of kids from that nimble-witted book leaving on the mantel for [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: John R. Erickson
Publisher: Puffin
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Maxine Rose Schur, Rose Schur
Publisher: American Girl
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Celebrate the holidays with Laura and her family with stories from the beloved Little House books!
Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy
Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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An updated version of the definitive guide, The Annotated Wizard of Oz provides a facsimile color version of the first edition of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic along with extensive notes and a thorough history of the immense Oz project. [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
Book Description
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
Gentle adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s celebrated Little House stories have been gathered together here in two new titles in our Little House Chapter Book series. In Christmas Stories, join Laura and her family for some pioneer Christmas celebrations. Christmas on the frontier means [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: John McCutcheon
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Product Description
Nominated for a GRAMMY Award in the Best Spoken Word Album for Children category!
Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Kirby Larson
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Book Description
Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle’s homesteading claim.
For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie’s been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim [...]
Rating: (25 reviews)
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Publisher: Kingfisher
Book Description
This authoritative reference book brings world history to life, from early humans to the current war on terror. Along the way, it reveals riveting facts on the founding of the great Roman Empire, the revolution that changed France forever, the war between the North and [...]