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The time book

a brief history from lunar calendars to atomic clocks

by Jenkins, Martin & Holland, Richard & Bolland, Richard

This book explores what time means and how it has been measured, from the waggles of a honeybee to the workings of an atomic clock.

The Cats of Roxville Station

by George, Jean Craighead

Rachet was thrown into a river to drown. But she claws up the riverbank and finds a home with the feral cats living by the Roxville train station. Amid foxes, ...

Ways to Live Forever

by Nicholls, Sally

Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish...

Washington at Valley Forge

by Freedman, Russell

Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system h...

Raleigh's Page

by Armstrong, Alan

In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia...

Eggs

by Spinelli, Jerry

Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each oth...

Here Today

by Martin, Ann M.

In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger s...

Cabin on Trouble Creek

by Leeuwen, Jean Van & Van Leeuwen, Jean

In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and ...

Iqbal

by D'Adamo, Francesco

A fictionalized account of a Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gun...

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...