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You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?
This biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is as spirited as the women's rights pioneer herself. Who says women shouldn't speak in public? And why can't they vote? These are questions Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up asking herself. Her father believed that girls didn't count as much as boys, and her own husband once got so embarrassed when she spoke at a convention that he left town. Luckily Li…
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- 0590998226
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- 88 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 STA
George Washington's breakfast
Educational version with glossary, roundtable discussion, about the author, and a poem. A young boy, a descendant of George Washington, learns a multitude of information as he tries to find out exactly what George Washington ate for breakfast...with the challenge from his grandmother that she would fix him that same meal at any time of day if he could find the answer. Appx. 3rd grade level.
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- 0395459915
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- 52 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- 923 FRI
What's the big idea, Ben Franklin?
No matter how busy he was, Ben Franklin always found time to try out new ideas: a remote-control lock (so he could lock his door without getting out of bed), a rocking chair with a fan over it (to keep flies away), and a windmill (to turn his roast meat on its spit). Aside from being a mad of ideas, he was an ambassador to England, a printer, an almanac maker, a politician, and even a vegetaria…
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- 0590412051
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- 46 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 926 FRA
Can't you make them behave, King George?
This entertaining volume, by Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz, sheds light on the life of England's King George III. It begins when he was a bashful boy who blushed easily, goes on to his early days as king, and finally examines his role in the American Revolution - when Americans ceased to think of him as good King George. Fascinating history made accessible for young readers. The…
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- 0590412000
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- 45 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 923.1 GEO
Will you sign here, John Hancock?
Little-known facts are highlighted in this fun book about this historical figure, by Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz. “The book is a most enjoyable view of history . . . The delightful illustrations exactly suit the times and the extraordinary character of John Hancock.”—The Horn Book Everyone knows that John Hancock was one of the first signers of the Declaration of Independen…
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- 0590412035
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- 47 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 923.1 HAN
Around the world in a hundred years
True tales of our world's greatest 15th century explorers, from Bartholomew Diaz and Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, are fascinatingly portrayed, complimented with the softly shaded pencil illustrations of Anthony Bacon Venti. Readers are led through a one-hundred-year period when Europeans explored the world and mapped the globe, while selfishly feeding th…
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- 05904819100
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- 128 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
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- 910 FRI
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