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Beacons of Light: Lighthouses
• Gail Gibbons
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A pictorial reference to American lighthouses for children 5 to 8.
(USE217, $16.00)
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Birdie's Lighthouse
• Kimberly Bulcken Root
• Deborah Hopkinson
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A taut, compelling account of one little girl's brave vigil set on Turtle Island, Maine in 1855. Birdie Holland steps in to save the day when her father, the lighthouse keeper, falls ill. For readers ages 4 to 9.
(USE218, $6.99)
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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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Homer Price
• Robert McCloskey
• LITERATURE
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The first book in McCloskey's endearing the Homer Price series,
(USE295, $6.99)
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If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
• Kay Moore
• Daniel O'Leary
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The tenor of the times, as retold for kids.
(USA41, $5.99)
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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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Little Maid of Provincetown
• Alice Turner Curtis
• Wuanita Smith
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This little maid is enlisted to help with the American revolutionary cause.
(USE276, $9.95)
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Looking for Red
• Angela Johnson
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Mike loses her brother Red, and life in their Cape Cod town changes.
(USE278, $15.95)
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Christopher Bing
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A beautifully illustrated rendering of Longfellow's classic poem for children 7 to 10.
(BOS18, $18.95)
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Revenge of the Whale, The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
• Nathaniel Philbrick
• EXPLORATION
• YOUNG ADULTS
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The tale of the Nantucket whaleship Essex for middleschoolers.
(USE315, $16.99)
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Seabird
• Holling C. Holling
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A bird's eye view of two centuries of American seafaring.
(OCE79, $11.95)
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The Sign of the Beaver
• Elizabeth George Speare
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A young adult novel set in Maine just after the French and Indian War, in which a young colonist is rescued by Indians. For readers 10 and up.
(USE222, $6.50)
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Stories from Where We Live, The North Atlantic Coast
• Sara St. Antoine
• Paul Mirocha
• Trudy Nicholson
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A substantial anthology of writings about this North American ecoregion, from Newfoundland south to Delaware -- wonderfully useful as a young person's guide to people, nature and place. Ages 9 to 14.
(USE252, $10.95)
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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises (See and Explore Library)
• Mark Carwardine
• NATURAL HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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With 900 detailed illustrations, this slim book is a highly visual guide to cetaceans that will appeal to kids ages 9 to 12.
(BST10, $7.99)
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Whaling Days
• Carol Carrick
• David Frampton
• HISTORY
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A child's book about the whaling life.
(OCE80, $7.95)
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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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Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
• Jean Fritz
• Margot Tomes
• Trina Schart Hyman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Favorite children's author Jean Fritz gamely tells the story of John Hancock.
(USA42, $5.99)
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