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My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Publisher Comments All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave -- and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion. Most are supporters of the British -- including Tim and Sam's... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list |
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Copper Sun (06 Edition) by Sharon M. Draper Publisher Comments M. Sindy Felin’s National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 by Elisa Carbone Publisher Comments When 12-year-old Samuel Collier boards a ship bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. Collier learns he can be whomever he wants in the New World settlement of Jamestown. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher Comments If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight... for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher Comments In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness Publisher Comments When Bartholemew, Remember, and Mary Allerton and their parents first step down from the Mayflower after sixty days at sea, they never dream that life in the New World will be so hard. Many in their Plymouth colony won't make it through the winter, and... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Step Into Reading: A Step 4 Book) by Frank Murphy and Richard Walz Publisher Comments A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square." A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen Publisher Comments Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston. But the war... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Forge (Seeds of America) by Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher Comments Blistering winds. Bitter cold. And the hope of a new future. In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Ben and Me: A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as Written by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson Publisher Comments Ever wonder where inventors get their ideas? As it turns out, the great inventor Benjamin Franklin got his best ideas from a mouse named Amos Funny, interesting and wise, this classic tale has been a favorite for generations. Once you've met Amos and... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz Publisher Comments A brief biography of Patrick Henry tracing his progress from planter to statesman.... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Bull Run by Paul Fleischman Publisher Comments A Civil War drama told in sixteen voices, this & #145; is a heartbreaking and remarkably vivid portrait of a war that remains our nation& #146; s bloodiest conflict.& #133; Fleischman& #146; s artistry is nothing short of astounding.&... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Publisher Comments An exciting new paperback edition of the Newbery Medal-winning classic. The Year: 1773. The place: Boston. Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. He is gifted and lords his skills over the other apprentices, until one day his hand... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Publisher Comments In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla Publisher Comments ‘ A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’... (read more) Your price: $5.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Wicked Girls (10 Edition) by Stephanie Hemphill Publisher Comments What started out as girls' games became a witch hunt. Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told from the perspectives of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692. Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When her... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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MR Revere and I by Robert Lawson Publisher Comments Paul Revere didn't make his famous midnight ride alone. Meet a patriot unlike any other: Scheherazade, the mare who doesn't mind mentioning she was once the fastest and most admired horse in the King's army. But on arrival in America, Sherry is quickly... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Longfellow Publisher Comments In his magnificent interpretation of Longfellow's poem, a Caldecott Honor-winning artist seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps which follow the... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Trouble River by Betsy Cromer Byars Publisher Comments "Faced with the imminent danger of attack by marauding Indians while both his parents are away, twelve-year-old Dewey Martin prevails upon his grandmother to escape by means of his homemade log raft".--Booklist.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Prison-Ship Adventure of James Forten, Revolutionary War Captive (History's Kid Heroes) by Marthy Rhodes Figley Synopsis Fifteen-year-old James Forten is proud to be fighting to free the American colonies from British rule. Hes also proud to be a free African American. In 1781, near the wars end, the British capture the American ship on which hes serving. White prisoners... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list |