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Across Five Aprils
• Irene Hunt
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Irene Hunt's enduring classic of the Civil War recounts the story of Jethro and his older brothers, who choose to fight on opposite sides during the Civil War. While Jethro grows to adulthood in Illinois (a state neither strictly Yankee nor strictly Reb), his brothers fight and send letters home. Gripping stuff for ages 9-12.
(USA44, $4.99)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Mark Twain
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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An enormously influential American book, Twain's masterpiece of boyhood adventure is as much about America's growing pains as it is about Huck's coming of age.
(USS41, $7.00)
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A Christmas Memory with Audio CD
• Truman Capote
• Beth Peck
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAMILY
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Simple and sweet, Truman Capote's autobiographical tale is an enduring classic. This 50th anniversary edition features delightful new illustrations and an accompanying audio version narrated by actress Celeste Holm.
(USS381, $17.95)
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Eyewitness American Revolution
• Stuart Murray
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This book shows what New England looked like when the Redcoats were coming.
(USA40, $15.99)
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Eyewitness Civil War
• John Stanchak
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The Civil War gets the big-picture treatment in this Eyewitness book, which features excellent, photographs and illustrations of costumes, household appliances, weapons and other artifacts that reveal the climate of the era.
(USA46, $19.99)
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Georgia (From Sea to Shining Sea)
• Pattie Stechschulte
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This book, designed as a library research tool, is a fact-filled, illustrated reference to Georgia's history, economy and culture. Ages 9-12.
(USS259, $30.50)
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Harriet and the Promised Land
• Jacob Lawrence
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAMILY
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The wonderful 20th-century American painter Jacob Lawrence wrote and illustrated this tribute to Harriet Tubman, former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad escort. Ages 4 and up.
(USS257, $7.99)
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If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
• Kay Moore
• Anni Matsick
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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One in Scholastic's nonfiction series about daily life and customs throughout history, this one focusing on 1860-65. With colorful illustrations and the kinds of interesting facts that draw young readers in. Ages 9-12.
(USA45, $5.99)
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If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days
• Barbara Brenner
• Jenny Williams
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A factual, illustrated look at life as it was in Williamsburg.
(USA47, $5.99)
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The Land
• Mildred D. Taylor
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Chronologically the first book in Mildred D. Taylor's "Roll of Thunder" series, this knockout of a novel tells of Paul-Edward Logan, the child of a slave mother and a white father, growing up in Georgia just after the Civil War.
(USS260, $18.00)
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Legends of the Seminoles
• Betty Mae Jumper
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An enjoyable illustrated retelling of Seminole folk tales, intended for both children and adults.
(FLA12, $18.95)
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Night of the Black Bear, A Mystery in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Gloria Skurzynski
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
(USS400, $4.99)
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
• Phillip Hoose
• NATURAL HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An engaging and well-researched history of the ivory-billed woodpecker, and the struggles surrounding its survival. It's a suspenseful and entertaining book about modern conservation and environmental issues for middle-school readers.
(BRD30, $21.00)
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Stories from Where We Live, The Gulf Coast
• Sara St. Antoine
• Trudy Nicholson
• Paul Mirocha
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An anthology of writings about coastal Texas, Florida and Louisiana -- wonderfully useful as a young person's guide to people, nature and place
(USS248, $10.95)
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Stories from Where We Live, The South Atlantic Coast
• Sara St. Antoine
• Trudy Nicholson
• Paul Mirocha
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An anthology of short stories, poems, essays, and historical accounts about the ecoregion spanning the thousand miles from Baltimore to Miami.
(USS378, $10.95)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
• Harper Lee
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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The classic southern novel.
(USS254, $7.99)
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The Tree that Owns Itself and Other Adventure Tales from Georgia's Past
• Loretta Johnson Hammer
• Gail Langer Karwoski
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A pleasurable collection of stories, featuring real and fictitious characters in scenes from Georgia's colonial past to the present. Ages 9-12.
(USS262, $8.95)
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Turn Homeward, Hannalee
• Patricia Beatty
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A Civil War fiction in which a 12-year-old girl and her little brother walk from north of the Mason-Dixon line to their family home in Georgia. Lots of period detail.
(USS261, $5.99)
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Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?
• Jean Fritz
• Margot Tomes
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A witty illustrated biography of the famous orator.
(USA43, $6.99)
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Who's Saying What in Jamestown, Thomas Savage?
• Jean Fritz
• HISTORY
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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Young Thomas Savage comes to the new world to work as a tranlator between the colonists and the Powhatan speaking Algonquian Indians, but he quickly gets caught up in the rising tensions between the two groups.
(USE400, $18.99)
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