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Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web

by Gaines, Ann

In three months in the fall of 1989, Berners-Lee used the Internet, a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government and its system of sending info...

Becoming Little Women

Louisa May at Fruitlands

by Atkins, Jeannine

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Wildflowers around the Year

by Ryden, Hope

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Everything on a Waffle

by Horvath, Polly

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpr...

Shipwrecked!

the true adventures of a Japanese boy

by Blumberg, Rhoda Lois

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro le...

Shipwrecked!

The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

by Blumberg, Rhoda Lois

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro le...

Tom Cringle

Battle on the High Seas

by Hausman, Gerald & Hills, Tad

During the War of 1812, a thirteen-year-old officer in the British navy records in his logbook his capture by pirates off the coast of Jamaica.

On Time

From Seasons to Split Seconds

by Skurzynski, Gloria

Discusses the astronomical causes of seasons, years, months and days, and how people through history have devised increasingly accurate calendars and clocks to...

Dreams in the Golden Country

The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl

by Lasky, Kathryn

Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New Yo...

Songs of faith

by Johnson, Angela

Living in a small town in Ohio in 1975 and desperately missing her divorced father, thirteen-year-old Doreen comes to terms with disturbing changes in her fami...