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4) Islo
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Islo is a story about how a boy, Luis, embarks on an amazing journey with a beautiful black panther. Along the way they learn how to live and trust again.
Come on this adventure with Luis and Islo as they explore their new home, Neube Island. As the story unfolds, Luis gets to reconnect with his family on the island and makes new friends along the way. Learn more about Islo's greatest gifts to Luis as she shows him how to let go of the past and not...
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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
12) Trains!
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Introduces the history of trains, from the nineteenth-century steam locomotives that bridged the American East and West to the Japanese "pusher" commuter trains and the Scottish train used as the Hogwarts Express in the "Harry Potter" films.
15) Choppers
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Helicopters are amazing machines that go places and do things that other vehicles cannot. Readers will love learning about the many daring jobs and rescues they undertake every day. Chock full of exciting color photographs, too!
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EDC Pub.]
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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An evocative picture book based on the classic tale by Anna Sewell. When the young horse Black Beauty is sold, he has no idea of the hardships he is about to face. A moving series of tales of cruelty and kindness across the rolling hills of the English countryside and the narrow cobbled streets of London.
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Senate document volume 23rd Congress, 1st session, no. 512, 4, pt. 7
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HISTREE
Pub. Date
c1987
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English