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Summary: "The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: ""Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.4 POLCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What PollackHerman, Gail
Summary: "Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction? Find out the real story of this folk hero, who did love to hunt bears, served as a congressman for Tennessee, and fought and died at the Alamo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CRODemuth, Patricia
Summary: "Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET WILDERLawrence, Sandra
Summary: "All the grim, gruesome, and gory bits of history they never teach you in school! From the exploits of American gangster Al Capone to the wars of King Richard III to the prophecies of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, this book is packed with men, women,and historical events that caused chaos and mayhem. Others included are: Vlad the Impaler of Romania, H.H. Holmes, Empress Wu Zetian of China,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little bee books 2016
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Summary: "The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ROMLawrence, Sandra
Summary: "All the grim, gruesome and gory bits of history they never teach you in school! From the betrayal and murder of Julius Caesar by Marcus Brutus to the gunpowder plot to overthrow the English government of Guy Fawkes to the outlandish trials of witches, this book is packed with men, women, and historical events that involve unfair trials and unspeakable treachery. Others included are: La...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little bee books 2016
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Summary: "Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book examines how humans have navigated the world over time."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023