Candace Fleming
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” —The Wall Street Journal
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at...
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with...
4) Polar bear
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Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Description
As spring approaches in the Arctic, a mother polar bear and her two cubs tentatively emerge from hibernation to explore the changing landscape. When it is time, she takes her cubs on a forty-mile journey, back to their home on the ice. Along the way, she fends off wolves, hunts for food, and swims miles and miles.
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English
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"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous "crash from outer space" has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...
Author
Series
History pals volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When ten-year-old Nolan and his little sister, Olive, find Ben Franklin in their kitchen, they do their best to guide Ben through the new world he helped form.
Author
Series
Bulldozer books (Candace Fleming) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Bulldozer proves that he can help on the construction site"--
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Language
English
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Description
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"During the reign of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun ruled and died tragically young. In order to send him on his way into the afterlife, his tomb was filled with every treasure he would need after death. And then, it was lost to time, buried in the sands of the Valley of the Kings. His tomb was also said to be cursed. Centuries later, as Egypt-mania gripped Europe, two Brits -- a rich earl with a habit for gambling and a disreputable,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Candace Fleming sets her gaze on the mystery at Roswell, New Mexico, and the "crash from outer space" that set the United States on edge for decades.
In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government
...15) Oh, no!
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
A series of animals falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
17) Emma's circus
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A girl is excited when the circus comes to town, but her family on the farm is too busy with chores to enjoy it"--
Author
Series
Bulldozer books (Candace Fleming) volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's Christmas Eve and Bulldozer doesn't know what to get his friends for Christmas. With a little creativity, he will turn trash into treasure"--