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Stories from the Billabong

by Marshall, James M. & Firebrace, Francis

Tens of thousands of years before Tutankhamen was buried in his pyramid, the Yorta-Yorta people — one of Australia's aboriginal tribes — told the stories i...

What's Inside?

Fascinating Structures Around the World

by Laroche, Giles

As it takes us on a tour of some of the most unique and beautiful structures, this book shows how the purpose of each structure dictated its design, or locatio...

What the Rat Told Me

A Legend of the Chinese Zodiac

by Sellier, Marie & Louis, Catherine & Wang, Fei

A wonderful introduction for young readers to the Chinese zodiac adapted from a Chinese Buddhist legend dating from the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD).

What Mr Darwin Saw

by Manning, Mick

In 1831, at only 22 years old, Darwin was offered the position of Naturalist on HMS Beagle's world voyage. He was set to become a clergyman but returns after f...

My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright

by Williams, Marcia L.

Marcia Williams follows a young girl's coming of age during World War II in a moving fictional journal that includes the author's own family mementos.The year ...

What Darwin Saw

The Journey That Changed the World

by Schanzer, Rosalyn

In 1831 a 22-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin stepped aboard the HMS Beagle as a traveling companion of an equally youthful sea captain called Robert F...

Dear Toni

by Sand-Eveland, Cyndi

When sixth-grader Gene Tucks moves south, she dreads being the new kid at school and almost everything else about her life as a “nobody.” But what she drea...

Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains

Or, The Search for a Suitable Princess

by Snyder, Laurel

Lucy, a milkmaid, and her best friend Wynston, a reluctant prince, go in search of information about Lucy's missing mother--even though Wynston is supposed to ...

One Beetle Too Many

The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin

by Lasky, Kathryn & Sorel, Edward

Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.

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The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries

by McCully, Emily Arnold

This is the true story of a determined and resourceful young man whose intimate knowledge of two cultures later led him to play an important role in the openin...