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Keppeler, Jill

Summary: Text and photographs look at how to build castles in Minecraft, focusing on how to build arches, drawbridges, towers, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019

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Turnbull, Stephanie.

Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TUR

Macdonald, Fiona

Summary: Traces the history of the samurai castles of medieval Japan with information on the role of samurai, shogun, and women in feudal Japanese society, on religious beliefs, and on arms and armor of the period.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Bedrick Books 1995

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 MAC

Summary: Examines the development and function of the castle from the ninth century through the fifteenth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blandford Press 1980

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 CAS

Fabiny, Sarah

Summary: "Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.7 FAB

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.7 FAB

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What Fabiny

Gravett, Christopher

Summary: "Discover the medieval world of castles -- how they were built and what life was like inside them"--from cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994

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Turnbull, Stephanie.

Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around Usb Turnbull

Summary: Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEC

Cullis, Megan

Summary: Provides an opportunity to take a visual tour around some of the most impressive palaces around the world, including the French Palace of Versailles, Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace in England, the Alhambra in Spain, Topkapi in Istanbul and the Amber Fort in India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942 Cul

Moss, Miriam.

Summary: Brief text and labeled illustrations discuss the history and architecture of several forts and castles, focusing on the protection they afforded and mechanisms used in siege against them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 1994

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 MOS

Steele, Philip

Summary: This children's history book has everything you need to know about medieval castles, including knights, jousting, sieges, drawbridges, and forts. Learn about castle design, from the earliest motte and bailey styles to stone fortresses and beautiful castles in Japan and India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Limited 2019

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Toy, Sidney.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.7094 TOY

Wheatley, Abigail

Summary: This is a non-fiction book for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like to live in a castle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623 WHE

Gagliardi, Sue

Summary: Explores how a castle's design helps it fulfill its purpose, and challenges readers to build their own cardboard castles. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, a supply list, Think About It critical thinking questions, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DiscoverRoo 2021

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Macaulay, David

Summary: In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design Macaulay

Bergin, Mark

Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of knights, castles, and other medieval structures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.87 BER

Biesty, Stephen.

Summary: Working from plans of an actual 14th century European castle, Stephen Biesty has sliced the building into various cross-sections, each one teeming with life and detail.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 BIE

Gravett, Christopher

Summary: "Discover the medieval world of castles -- how they were built and what life was like inside them"--from cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 623 GRA

Macaulay, David.

Summary: Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1977

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.19 MAC
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.19429 MAC

Osborne, Will.

Summary: Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 OSB

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 1993

Summary: It may be more famous now than any time in its 1,300-year history as the setting of Downton Abbey, but England's Highclere Castle has its own stories to tell. In its heyday, Highclere was the social epicenter of Edwardian England. See how all the inhabitants of Highclere lived, from the aristocrats above to the army of servants toiling 'below stairs'. Also find out from the current inhabitants,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEC

Corbett, Judy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ebury Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.9 COR

Macaulay, David.

Summary: Take a tour of a medieval castle. Every part of the castle has a function. Walls keep the enemy out. Towers protect the lord and the soldiers. From the moat and portcullis to the great hall and dungeon, see how a castle works as an enemy army tries to storm the walls.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/David Macaulay Studio 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around Macaulay

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAC

Platt, Richard.

Summary: Cross-sectional illustrations present an inside view of a medieval castle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. 1994

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 Pla

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