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The Peterkins' Christmas

by Spurr, Elizabeth

Meet the Peterkins. There's Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin, Agamemnon, Solomon John, Eliza-beth Eliza, and the three Little Boys (who everyone forgot to name when they ...

Odd Boy Out

Young Albert Einstein

by Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Sparrow Jack

by Gerstein, Mordicai

In 1868, John Bardsley, an immigrant from England, brought one thousand sparrows from his home country back to Philadelphia, where he hoped they would help sav...

Millions to Measure

by Schwartz, David M.

Marvelosissimo the Magician explains the development of standard units of measure, and shows the simplicity of calculating length, height, weight, and volume u...

A Library for Juana

The World of Sor Juana Inés

by Mora, Pat

A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet, learned in many subjects, who became a nun later in life.

Bitter Dumplings

by Lee, Jeanne M.

After her father dies, a young Chinese woman struggles to survive and finds she has much in common with an old hunchbacked woman in her village.

Frida

by Winter, Jonah

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The Cod's Tale

by Kurlansky, Mark

Picture book based on the critically acclaimed best-seller Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world. Unique look at 1000 yrs of human civilization. ...