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Keller, Shana

Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KEL

Young, Judy

Summary: As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOU

Lakin, Pat.

Summary: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2002

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

Stevenson, Augusta.

Summary: Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1986

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOO

Gormley, Beatrice.

Summary: Tells the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life from her days as a small child on the Kansas prairie to her years as a successful children's author, working with her daughter, Rose; and includes details about her family's life that were left out of her popular books.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2001

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Leung, Julie

Summary: Follows the efforts of young mouse Calib Christopher to fulfill his dream of becoming a Knight of Camelot by embarking on a quest to identify the culprit behind a tragedy at the annual Harvest Tournament.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEU

Lakin, Patricia

Summary: Profiles Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and who disappeared during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003

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

Lakin, Patricia

Summary: A brief biography of the woman who overcame her shyness to become a teacher, a nurse during the Civil War, and founder of the American Red Cross.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2004

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

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Summary: Like other girls of her time Susan B. Anthony learned how to cook and sew. But unlike most girls she also received an education. She learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. She was also taught that girls and women could do anything boys and men could do-if only they were allowed. So Susan set out to change the laws. She fought for a woman's right to own property, hold down a job, and, most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005

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Leung, Julie

Summary: Young mouse Calib Christopher is finally a squire to the Knights of the Round Table, but there is no time to celebrate because his best friend, Cecily, and Merlin's magical treasure are in the clutches of the evil Saxons.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEU

Lakin, Patricia

Summary: From a young age Albert Einstein was curious and very smart. But that didn't mean life was easy for him. In fact, being so smart sometimes made things harder for him! Read all about his life, and why Albert Einstein is known as the genius of the twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2005

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

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Summary: John Adams didn't enjoy traveling. He much preferred to stay home with his wife and children. But John Adams also had a dream: He wanted to see the thirteen colonies free from English rule. He wanted to see the creation of a new country -- the United States of America. John Adams did whatever was needed to make his dream come true.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005

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

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Continues the adventures of Anne Shirley and her friends at college.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MON

Leung, Julie

Summary: After a mysterious plague threatens Camelot, Calib and Cecily set off on a voyage to Avalon to find a cure and need to use magic and the help of friends to solve the mystery of the plague and return in time to save Camelot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEU

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley)

Summary: Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president--the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MCG

Appleby, Joyce Oldham.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEF

Brinkley, Douglas.

Summary: A biography of the first president to be sworn into office as a result of his predecessor's resignation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD BRI

Dallek, Robert.

Summary: The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, Harry S. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMAN, HARRY DAL

Peters, Charles

Summary: Documents the 36th president's term in office and the legacy of his achievements, revealing the insights he gained while serving in the Senate and throughout the Kennedy-Johnson administration and discussing how factors including the Vietnam War drove him from office.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, LYNDON B PET

Siken, Richard

Summary: An award-winning collection of poems by Richard Siken that explore passion and obsession.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005

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Leuchtenburg, William Edward

Summary: Renowned New Deal historian Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of the lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history--the Great Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOVER, HERBERT LEU

Wicker, Tom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EIS

Wills, Garry

Summary: In this examination of the life of a founding father, renowned historian Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAD

Catton, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1956

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CAT

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