ilość książek w kategorii: 1165
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
ISBN: 9780590436281 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to lead them on the same secret, dangerous journey.
Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, b...
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30,17 zł |
Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
ISBN: 9780590443500 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blinded at the age of 3, Louis Braille developed a superb memory that enabled him to do well in school. But that wasn't enough--Louis wanted to read. Finding the alphabet impractical, he invented the raised dot alphabet, Braille, now used throughout the world.
Blinded at the age of 3, Louis Braille developed a superb memory that enabled him to do well in school. But that wasn't enough--Louis wanted to read. ...
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34,48 zł |
The Story of Ruby Bridges
ISBN: 9780590572811 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator bring to life the true story of an extraordinary six-year-old who helped shape American history when she became the first African-American sent to first grade in an all white school. This moving picture book captures the courage of a little girl standing alone in the face of racism. Full color.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator bring to life the true story of an extraordinary six-year-old who h...
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86,27 zł |
Frederick Douglass and Samuel Morse
ISBN: 9780595185740 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,25 zł |
Aaron Burr
ISBN: 9780595196302 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,20 zł |
Norman Schwartzkopf: Hero with a Heart
ISBN: 9780595255702 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We were Protestants and Catholics and Jews and Moslems and Buddhists and many other religions fighting for a common and just cause, because that s what your military is. And we were black and white and yellow and brown and red, and we noticed that, when our blood was shed in the desert, it didn t separate by race; it flowed together.
We were Protestants and Catholics and Jews and Moslems and Buddhists and many other religions fighting for a common and just cause, because that s wha...
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55,88 zł |
A Valentine for Uncle Jim
ISBN: 9780595391257 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,93 zł |
The Story of Johnny Appleseed
ISBN: 9780671667467 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Retells the story of John Chapman whose devotion to planting apple trees made him a legendary figure in American history.
Retells the story of John Chapman whose devotion to planting apple trees made him a legendary figure in American history.
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34,48 zł |
Follow the Dream: [The Story of Christopher Columbus]
ISBN: 9780679806288 / Angielski / Twarda / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. -The illustrations, executed in a variety of media, show scenes from the explorer's life as well as some imaginary creatures that populated the Europeans' picture of the outside world at that time. The details on each page invite individual readers to pay close attention, but the brief, clear text and framed illustrations lend themselves equally well to group sharing. Make room on your crowded Columbus shelf for this one.---(starred) School Library Journal.
From... Illus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. -The illustrations, executed i...
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81,95 zł |
The True Story of Pocahontas
ISBN: 9780679861669 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illus. in full color. Filled with suspense, romance, and historical details, here's a very young biography of the Powhatan Indian princess who played a vital role in early Colonial and Native American relations.
Illus. in full color. Filled with suspense, romance, and historical details, here's a very young biography of the Powhatan Indian princess who played ...
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25,36 zł |
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark
ISBN: 9780679877059 / Angielski / Miękka / 47 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a childhood illness leaves her blind and deaf, Helen Keller's life seems hopeless indeed. But her indomitable will and the help of a devoted teacher empower Helen to triumph over incredible adversity. This amazing true story is finally brought to the beginner reader level.
When a childhood illness leaves her blind and deaf, Helen Keller's life seems hopeless indeed. But her indomitable will and the help of a devoted teac...
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25,85 zł |
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
ISBN: 9780688174859 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Any person who leaves
the country to go to another and later returns will be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in... Any person who leaves
the country to go to another and later returns will be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 180... |
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38,80 zł |
Pathways: Grade 5 Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England Trade Book
ISBN: 9780688179618 / Angielski / Twarda / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admiration of her enemies. Elizabeth was born into an age of religious strife, in which plots and factions were everywhere and private beliefs could be punished by death. When she became queen, her counselors urged her to marry quickly and turn the responsibilities of governing over to her husband, But she outwitted them by stalling, changing her mind; and playing one side against another, as she steered her country to the glorious era of peace... She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admir... |
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86,27 zł |
Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman
ISBN: 9780689713460 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Wild West personality Annie Oakley.
Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Wild West pers...
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34,48 zł |
Buffalo Bill: Frontier Daredevil
ISBN: 9780689714795 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody.
Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Wild West show...
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34,48 zł |
Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy
ISBN: 9780689806285 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sitting Bull was admired by friends and enemies alike for his courage, strength, intelligence, and humanity. A great Sioux chief, he fought to preserve his people's homeland and way of life from the encroachment of the white man. Illustrations.
Sitting Bull was admired by friends and enemies alike for his courage, strength, intelligence, and humanity. A great Sioux chief, he fought to preserv...
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34,48 zł |
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
ISBN: 9780689819162 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The wife of one president and the mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman in her own right. She experienced the gathering storm of the Revolutionary War and saw the battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop near her home. The letters written by Abigail Adams to her friends and family bring the Revolutionary period alive, mingling details of everyday life with the momentous events of her time. Abigail Adams is given her own place in history in this award-winning biography, which captures the personality of its subject and the time in which she lived.
The wife of one president and the mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman in her own right. She experienced the gathering storm of...
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60,20 zł |
John Muir: Young Naturalist
ISBN: 9780689819964 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A founding father of the conservation movement in the United States, John Muir was born in Scotland and emigrated to Wisconsin when he was eleven. This easy-to-read biography takes a look at Muir's life as young naturalist, destined to become one of America's first eco-heroes.
A founding father of the conservation movement in the United States, John Muir was born in Scotland and emigrated to Wisconsin when he was eleven. Thi...
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47,25 zł |
Thurgood Marshall
ISBN: 9780689820427 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. By the time he was 12, he had most of it memorized and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court--the first African American to serve in that position.
Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. By the time he...
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34,48 zł |
Parallel Journeys
ISBN: 9780689832369 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She was a young German Jew.
He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the Auschwitz extermination camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth. While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler's "master race." While she was crammed in a cattle car bound for the death camp Auschwitz, he was a teenage commander of... She was a young German Jew.
He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. <... |
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34,48 zł |