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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
Phoebe the spy
Someone is planning to kill George Washington, and young Phoebe Fraunces is trying to save his life. Phoebe gets a job as George Washington's housekeeper, but her real job is to work as a spy. She listens and watches very carefully, and she meets her father every day to tell him what she has learned. One day Phoebe's father tells her that Washington is planning to leave town in a few days, and …
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- 078073003990
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- 47 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- 973.3 GRI
Tattercoats
Lonely and neglected, Tattercoats lives with her grandfather, a rich old lord, in a palace by the sea. Her grandfather ignores her because her mother, his favorite daughter, had died at her birth. Will Tattercoats find a way to attend the king's ball if her grandfather refuses to take her? Full color.
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- 9780399215841
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- 398.21 JAC
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