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Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Publisher Comments With the memorable characters and plot twists she brings to her best-selling fantasies, Eva Ibbotson has written a hair-raising novel, set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil. Maia, an orphan, is sent from England to live with unfamiliar cousins on a... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff Publisher Comments Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home for unintentionally killing a man, who takes up a new life as a mercenary.... (read more) Your price: $8.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Sacajawea : Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (03 Edition) by Joseph Bruchac Publisher Comments At age sixteen, Sacajawea is married, a mother, and has been taken from her Shoshone people. She has been asked to join Lewis and Clark in their expedition to explore the land from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. As a translator, peacemaker... (read more) Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon (Step Into Reading: A Step 5 Book) by Judy Donnelly Publisher Comments Illus. in full color & full-color photos. "The story of Apollo II's historic flight, from lift-off, through 'The Eagle has landed,' to splashdown and quarantine. Donnelly does a good job of setting the stage with chapters on the history of the... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Going West (Picture Puffin Books) by Jean Van Leeuwen Publisher Comments "One day in early spring we packed everything we had into our wagon, and set out to find a new home". Sleeping under the stars, weathering terrible storms, and fording swollen rivers, Hannah and her family made the journey of a lifetime. An "American... (read more) Your price: $5.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin Publisher Comments The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery by Allan Wolf Publisher Comments "This amazing work presents the adventure of Lewis and Clark through the eyes of its participants." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) In powerful, lyrical language, here is the journey of Lewis and Clark told by themselves and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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I Want to Go to the Moon by Tom Saunders Synopsis From the time when young Neil Armstrong took his first small steps and spoke his first words, he wanted to travel into space. Although everyone told him it was impossible, he never gave up. Tom Saunders' song tells the story of Armstrong's life... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Bold Journey: West with Lewis and Clark by Charles Bohner Publisher Comments Drawing on journal entries and grounded in fact, Charles Bohners story re-creates the Lewis and Clark expedition from the experience of Hugh McNeal, one of the youngest members on the journey.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The True Adventures of Charley Darwin by Carolyn Meyer Publisher Comments Young Charley Darwin hated school—he much preferred to be outside studying birds eggs, feathers, and insects. And so, at the age of twenty-one, he boarded a ship called HMS Beagle and spent five thrilling but dangerous years sailing around the world,... (read more) Your price: $8.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Far Corners by Kathleen Bullock Publisher Comments Once upon a Christmas Eve, the Brooks children, Matt, Jan and Willie, stumble through a portal in time and find themselves, along with their run-down old home, transported back to 1747, Colonial Virginia. A ghost has been haunting their house, which had... (read more) Your price: $16.75 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Cannon Beach Mouse Caper by Peter Waugh Synopsis A lewis & Clark exhibit in St. Louis inspires two mice to embark on a journey that takes them to Cannon Beach, Oregon. When twins are born to them and they in turn take their place in the young community, adventure is coupled with danger and drama as the... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Little Jane and the Nameless Isle: A Little Jane Silver Adventure (Little Jane Silver Adventure) by Adira Rotstein Publisher Comments Only two people have ever survived the trip to the Nameless Isle: Long John Silver and Bonnie Mary Bright, the parents of aspiring pirate girl Little Jane. They thought the volcanic caves would be great places to store their treasure. They thought wrong.... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $12.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz Publisher Comments "In a simple, short biography of Columbus she has been extraordinarily successful in extracting the essence of the man." -- The Horn Book. "Fritz's unconventional look at the great explorer who accidently discovered the New World reveals the navigator's... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Royal Yacht by Kathleen E Salimena Publisher Comments The Royal Yacht is a fun book, filled with discovery, for young readers, for children 6+ and for the young at heart. Experience the adventures of Katiana Ferrari, a young girl, and Princess Carolina, her young princess friend, aboard her family's royal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Tom Crean's Rabbit: A True Story from Scott's Last Voyage by Meredith Hooper Synopsis Its very cold in Antarctica, and the Terra Nova is crowded with both men and animals. Tom the sailor is looking for a quiet and cozy place for his pet rabbit to have her babies. From high in the rigging to down in the hold, the crewman takes readers all... (read more) Your price: $7.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Two Orphans, Columbus, and the New World: Volume I of the New World Series by Pat Mac Donald Synopsis After witnessing the murder of his parents, Prince Dionisio and Princess Carlota, brave twelve-year-old Rafael barely escapes and ends up on a ship heading out to sea. There he meets Alex, an orphan boy his own age who works on the ship. Their voyage... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Miss Malarkey's Field Trip by Finchler Publisher Comments Miss Malarkey is leaving the building. A field trip is the highlight of every school year. Students everywhere look forward to this break from the regular class routine.<BR>Miss Malarkey has never been in charge of running a class trip before... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Seaman's Adventures with Lewis and Clark (Adventures in History) by Duncan Brown Publisher Comments This easy reader tells of adventures encountered by Lewis and Clark on their voyage of discovery and by Seaman, the dog who went along. At the end of the book the reader has the opportunity to tell or write a few words of his or her own, relating to an... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Stowaway by Karen Hesse Publisher Comments It is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England on H.M.S Endeavour, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. What is less known is that... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |