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Elizabeth George Speare - Bronze Bow: Grade 5-6

Elizabeth George Speare - Bronze Bow: Grade 5-6

This teacher's guide is designed to accompany the novel The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare. Including a number of teacher's helps, exercises, ...
  5 reviews
"A Hardened Zealot Seeks Meaning in Elizabeth George Speare's The Bronze Bow"
Reviewed by bilbopooh on Apr 21, 2011
"Hate does not die with killing.  It only springs up a hundredfold.  The only thing stronger than hate is love."

$3 - $7

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Ellen Raskin - Figgs and Phantoms

Ellen Raskin - Figgs and Phantoms

The bizarre adventures of the Figg family after they leave show business and settle in the small town of Pineapple. Illustrated with b&w ...

$6

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Lois Lenski - Strawberry Girl

Lois Lenski - Strawberry Girl

<P>Birdie Boyer was a Florida Cracker. She belonged to a large "strawberry family," who lived on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the ...
  4 reviews
"Lois Lenski's Strawberry Girl Gives Us a Glimpse Into Florida's Past"
Reviewed by befus on Mar 12, 2013
A very fine book. Shore 'nough.

$6

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Nancy Bond - A String in the Harp

Nancy Bond - A String in the Harp

After the death of Peter's mother, he and his father move to Wales where his father has accepted a professorship. Peter is unhappy with the move, but ...

$12

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Irene Hunt and Tom Stechschulte - Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt and Tom Stechschulte - Across Five Aprils

This is the unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. Recommended for ages 8 to 12. ...
  1 review
"The War Comes Home"
Reviewed by linotype on Mar 26, 2008
Best read with a child who might struggle with the dialect and to help provide background explanation. But a wonderful piece of historical fiction.

$6 - $7

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Joseph Krumgold - And Now Miguel

Joseph Krumgold - And Now Miguel

Twelve-year-old Miguel Chavez finds himself right in the middle--not yet a man like his older brother Gabriel, and not a boy who gets what he asks ...

$6

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Virginia Hamilton - Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton - Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Fourteen-year-old Tree encounters a young stranger who turns out to be the ghost of her mother's dead brother and who takes her into an exploration ...
  1 review
"The young adult predecessor to Toni Morrison's, "Beloved"."
Reviewed by ramseelbird on Dec 9, 2004
It's full of darkness and light and energy and life. It's about death and dying and the nature of ghosts themselves. The best of everything.

$6

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Eloise Jarvis McGraw - Moccasin Trail

Eloise Jarvis McGraw - Moccasin Trail

Jim Keath attempts to return to his life as a white man after living for six years as a Crow Indian.

$6 - $7

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Alice Dalgliesh - The Courage of Sarah Noble

Alice Dalgliesh - The Courage of Sarah Noble

In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble, ...
  1 review
"The Courage of Sarah Noble - Should it be on Your Child's Summer Reading List?"
Reviewed by mmcphee on Jun 12, 2009
Perhaps a good choice for classroom use, but a lack of details makes The Courage of Sarah Noble a poor choice for independent reading.

$4 - $5

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Genevieve Foster and Joanna Foster - George Washington's World

Genevieve Foster and Joanna Foster - George Washington's World

George Washington's World sets American history into a world-wide context through short, beautifully written stories that explain what was going on ...

$16

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Holling C. Holling - Minn of the Mississippi

Holling C. Holling - Minn of the Mississippi

The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels downstream.

$11

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Jean Lee Latham - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American ...

$6 - $7

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Russell Freedman - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

Russell Freedman - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
  1 review

$11

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Stephanie S. Tolan - Surviving the Applewhites

Stephanie S. Tolan - Surviving the Applewhites

Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only ...

$6

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Dorothy Rhoads - Corn Grows Ripe

Dorothy Rhoads - Corn Grows Ripe

When his father is badly injured in an accident, a young Mayan boy called Tigre wonders who will plant and harvest the corn that they need to ...

$6

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