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Thrilling thieves: liars, cheats, and cons who changed history (Changed History Series)
Par Brianna DuMont. 2018
Profiles of twelve troublemakers from history, including Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener who worked for the tea-loving British government. His…
mission: to steal tea seeds from China. For grades 5-8. 2018Indiana gothic: a novel of adultery and murder in an American family
Par Pope Brock. 1999
Journalist Pope Brock grew up ignorant of his family's most closely guarded secret. It was only when his great-aunt was…
dying that he learned the true circumstances surrounding the death of his great-grandfather Ham Dillon. An aspiring young Indiana politician, Dillon was shot to death in 1908 by his own brother-in-law, Link Hale -- a man half-crazed with anger and grief over the fact that his wife, Allie, had just borne Ham a child. To add another twist, Allie Hale was more than just Ham Dillon's lover; she was also his wife's only sister. In "Indiana Gothic", he tells the story of Ham Dillon with the sweep and power of a novel, re-creating the era in such vivid detail that we have the sensation of time travelBetsy Ross and the silver thimble: Ready-to-Read Level 2 (Ready-to-Read Childhood of Famous Americans #Level 2)
Par Stephanie Greene, Diana Magnuson. 2002
Young Betsy Ross is upset when her brother tells her that she cannot make furniture because she is a girl.…
Betsy wants to prove that she can do whatever he can, but she ends up proving something to herself instead. For grades 2-4The firehouse light
Par Janet Nolan, Marie Lafrance. 2010
Mind your manners, Alice Roosevelt!
Par Leslie Kimmelman, Adam Gustavson. 2009
A brief, fictionalized account of what life was like for Theodore Roosevelt during his political career, with his oldest daughter,…
Alice, a strong-willed and somewhat wild young woman, who loved to do things that shocked the public, even when she lived in the White House. For grades 2-4Henry and the cannons: an extraordinary true story of the American Revolution
Par Don Brown. 2013
In the winter of 1775, a bookseller named Henry Knox drags fifty-nine canons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga across 300…
hilly and snowy miles, delivering them to an imperiled General Washington in Boston. This lively picture book depicts one of the most remarkable achievements of the Revolutionary War. For grades K-3. 2013Soldier's secret: the story of Deborah Sampson
Par Sheila Solomon Klass. 2009
After completing her indentured servitude, Deborah Sampson, a tall and strong young woman, wants to join America's Continental army and…
help the colonies gain independence. She disguises herself as a boy, enlists in a Massachusetts regiment, and serves admirably as a Revolutionary War soldier. For grades 6-9. 2009Ramsés II (Grandes biografías Series #1)
Par Isabel Prieto Gonzalez, Isabel Prieto González. 2005
Factual life and times of the great nineteenth-dynasty Egyptian pharaoh, couched in the form of a fictional autobiography. Thus Ramses…
himself recounts his birth and pedigree, childhood and family, succession to the throne, military and political conquests, construction projects, and death. Spanish language. 2004American heroes
Par Marfe Ferguson Delano, Marfe Delano. 2005
Fifty profiles of heroes drawn from four hundred years of American history: Pocahontas, Frederick Douglass, Queen Lili'uokalani, Helen Keller, Jonas…
Salk, and Roberto Clemente, among others. A list of facts accompanies each entry. Time lines and essays introduce historical eras. For grades 5-8. 2005Standing like a stone wall: the life of General Thomas J. Jackson
Par James I. Robertson, Jr.. 2001
Biography of Confederate general "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863). Describes how Jackson's determination and faith transformed him from a poorly educated orphan…
to a West Point graduate. Recounts his Civil War victories and the unflinching courage that made him a military hero. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001The boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Mallory's history of King Arthur and his knights of the round table (Illustrated Classics Ser.)
Par Thomas Malory, N. C. Wyeth, Sidney Lanier, N. C. Wyeth. 1952
Contains tales of chivalry, combat, honor, tournaments, the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. Featuring Arthur, Launcelot, Tristram,…
Gareth, Galahad, Percival, and the other legendary members of the Round Table. For grades 5-8. 1880Ben and me: a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his good mouse Amos
Par Robert Lawson. 1988
In 1745 Amos, a church mouse, leaves his home to find a better place to live. He ends up with…
Benjamin Franklin and becomes his confidant and traveling companion. When Franklin dies, many writers extol his achievements, but Amos decides to set the record straight with his own accounts. For grades 5-8William Tell
Par Margaret Early. 1991
A long time ago, the people of three tiny European countries, Schwytz, Uri, and Unterwalden, lost their freedom to Austria.…
Its mean emperor and evil governors, the most dreadful of whom was Gessler, ruled with an iron hand. Early retells the story of how William Tell shot an apple from his son's head, rid the land of Gessler, and led his compatriots to freedom and the founding of a new nation--Switzerland. For grades 2-4The hero's journey: the world of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on his life and work
Par Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau. 1990
Campbell's lifelong interest in the similarities between art, religion, mythology, psychology, and literature is explored in this series of interviews.…
Traces his development of a personal revelation of "inner bliss" and the ability to translate the eternal myths into everyday experiences. Outgrowth of the film Hero with a Thousand Faces. 1990The story of the champions of the Round Table
Par Howard Pyle. 1984
The second of a four-volume retelling of the legends of King Arthur and his companions. Here we learn of the…
knighting of Sir Launcelot of the Lake; of Sir Tristram and his love for Lady Belle Isoult; and of how Sir Percival became a knight of the Round Table. Originally published in 1905. Sequel to The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (DB 30327). For junior and senior high and older readers. Some violence. 1984The double life of Pocahontas
Par Ed Young, Jean Fritz. 1983
A biography of the famous American Indian princess emphasizes her lifelong admiration of John Smith and the difficulties she faced…
as an Indian princess married to an Englishman. For grades 4-7 to share with older readersTraitor, the case of Benedict Arnold: The Case of Benedict Arnold
Par Jean Fritz, John Andre. 1981
A tense study of the brilliant Revolutionary War general who became one of America's most famous hero-villians when he betrayed…
West Point to the British. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1981The earth is the Lord's: a tale of the rise of Genghis Khan
Par Taylor Caldwell. 1975
Novel based upon the life of Genghis Khan, the thirteenth-century Mongol chieftain who led his swarm of shaggy barbarians over…
Asia, the Near East, and Hungary. The story begins with his birth as Temujin, the son of a petty chief in the Gobi desert, and ends with his first great victoryCatherine Girard-Audet (Raconte-moi #54)
Par Hélène Gagnon. 2023
L'enfance de Catherine se passe dans le bonheur auprès de sa famille. Introvertie et passionnée par la lecture, elle se…
sent comblée avec son chien Pollux, Annie, sa best, et Pilu, son amie imaginaire. Au secondaire, tout bascule. L'intimidation et le placotage derrière son dos sont au rendez-vous. Rien ne va plus ! Catherine pleure et se réfugie dans son journal intime. Puis, un changement d'école illumine à nouveau sa vie. L'amour, les amitiés et les voyages forment la jeune femme qu'elle devient. Son diplôme universitaire en poche, Catherine est loin de se douter qu'un jour, elle imaginera un personnage qu'elle baptisera Léa Olivier et qui fera d'elle une auteure des plus populairesThe Tosa Diary
Par William N. Porter, Ki No Tsurayuki. 1981