April Jones Prince
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom—and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating...
5) Snowy race
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A girl and her father set out in his snowplow to pick up someone special at the train station during a snow storm"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Presents the wide variety of wheels, including the many types of vehicles they are used on, what they do, the sounds they make, and who they transport.
Presenta la amplia variedad de ruedas, incluyendo los muchos tipos de vehículos que se utilizan, en lo que hacen, los sonidos que hacen, y que se transportan.