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Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation
ISBN: 9780060270698 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wouldn't it be great to be part of that famous Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth Plantation back in 1621? Then join the Time-Traveling Twins as they sit down to an enormous FOUR-DAY feast, complete with puddings, pompions, pottages, and, of course, turkeys. Meet Squanto and the other Native Americans. Help with the harvest. Find out what it was like to be a Pilgrim. Once again, historian Diane Stanley's fun and impeccably researched text is brought to life by Holly Berry's accessible illustrations. Word balloons, engaging characters, and all sorts of wonderful details about the... Wouldn't it be great to be part of that famous Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth Plantation back in 1621? Then join the Time-Traveling Twins as... |
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68,30 zł |
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Going West
ISBN: 9780140560961 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Award-winning author Jean Van Leeuwen tells the moving story of a pioneer family during the Westward Expansion One day in early spring they packed everything they had into our wagon, and set out to find a new home. Sleeping under the stars, weathering terrible storms, and fording swollen rivers, Hannah and her family made the journey of a lifetime. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.
"Like pages torn from a frontier journal, stirring sketches and lyrical text form a moving tribute to the brave families to whom the book is dedicated."--Publishers... Award-winning author Jean Van Leeuwen tells the moving story of a pioneer family during the Westward Expansion One day in early spring they...
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28,72 zł |
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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
ISBN: 9780142408940 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie's town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.
There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand ...
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28,72 zł |
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Pop's Bridge
ISBN: 9780152047733 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can't be built. But Robert's father is building it. He's a skywalker--a brave, high-climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced his pop has the most important job on the crew . . . until a frightening event makes him see that it takes an entire team to accomplish the impossible. When it was completed in 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was hailed as an international marvel. Eve Bunting's riveting story salutes the ingenuity and courage of every person who helped raise this majestic American...
The Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can't be built. But Robert's father is building it. He's a skywalk...
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72,26 zł |
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I Am David
ISBN: 9780152051600 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?
David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope. David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given ...
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32,68 zł |
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Flaming Arrows
ISBN: 9780152052133 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chad's family takes refuge from vicious Chickamauga raiding parties with a desperate group in a wilderness fort. But not every danger is outside the wall. . . .
Chad's family takes refuge from vicious Chickamauga raiding parties with a desperate group in a wilderness fort. But not every danger is outside the w...
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48,35 zł |
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The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps
ISBN: 9780440411369 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ten-year-old Winnie and her mother spend the summer of 1867 with Winnie's father, a mining engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad. While the Central Pacific weathers a strike by the Chinese immigrant laborers, Winnie's view of the world is forever changed by Lee Cheng, a young tea carrier. Illustrations.
Ten-year-old Winnie and her mother spend the summer of 1867 with Winnie's father, a mining engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad. While the Centra...
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24,76 zł |
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Gifts From The Sea
ISBN: 9780440419709 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it's just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can't leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. But the morning after a storm, something floats ashore that changes their lives forever: Two small mattresses strapped together, and inside, a baby They name her Cecelia, which means "a gift from the sea," and call her Celia. She makes them a family again-and helps heal the hurt left by Quila's mother's passing. Two years later, though, another stranger arrives, one...
Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it's just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lig...
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24,76 zł |
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War Comes to Willy Freeman
ISBN: 9780440495048 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City.
Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker, Horace, Willy knows that to be black, female, and free leaves her open to danger at every turn. What will tomorrow bring? Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have...
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28,72 zł |
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Smart about the Fifty States
ISBN: 9780448431314 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The kids in Ms. Brandt's class create a special report on the United States of America, with each child doing research on ten states. This book features a double-spread map of the whole U.S. and a page for every state jam-packed with trivia, interesting facts, and jokes. Full color.
The kids in Ms. Brandt's class create a special report on the United States of America, with each child doing research on ten states. This book featur...
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32,68 zł |
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The Streets Are Paved With Gold
ISBN: 9780595219858 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The year is 1922. Brooklyn is crowded with Jewish immigrants and their American-born children. For Debbie, almost 14 it is a wonderful, exciting time in a fresh new land, seen through the eyes of a girl at the edge of womanhood. Change is everywhere-the country is changing and the old ways are changing. But Debbie is changing even faster. She faces all the challenges of growing up: new friends, first love, questions about the future. And she s learning just who Debbie Gold is. Debbie s story is like life itself timeless, yet always new.
The year is 1922. Brooklyn is crowded with Jewish immigrants and their American-born children. For Debbie, almost 14 it is a wonderful, exciting time ...
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62,06 zł |
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Blood Kin, A Savannah Story
ISBN: 9780595451296 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The brutal inhumanities and deadly cruelties that often characterized slavery in the United States are well known. "Blood Kin" tells a different side of the story, one in which two boys, one black and the other white, dare to challenge the racial barriers of their time by reaching out to one another in friendship only to later discover that they actually share the same blood. Told with a fascinating blend of history, folklore, and first-rate storytelling, "Blood Kin" takes readers into the world of Woodloe Plantation outside Savannah, Georgia. There, the residents hope to avoid the growing...
The brutal inhumanities and deadly cruelties that often characterized slavery in the United States are well known. "Blood Kin" tells a different side ...
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47,92 zł |
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The Streets Are Paved With Gold
ISBN: 9780595745982 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The year is 1922. Brooklyn is crowded with Jewish immigrants and their American-born children. For Debbie, almost 14 it is a wonderful, exciting time in a fresh new land, seen through the eyes of a girl at the edge of womanhood. Change is everywhere-the country is changing and the old ways are changing. But Debbie is changing even faster. She faces all the challenges of growing up: new friends, first love, questions about the future. And she's learning just who Debbie Gold is. Debbie's story is like life itself - timeless, yet always new.
The year is 1922. Brooklyn is crowded with Jewish immigrants and their American-born children. For Debbie, almost 14 it is a wonderful, exciting time ...
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109,16 zł |
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We Rode the Orphan Trains
ISBN: 9780618432356 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. They were "throwaway" kids, living on the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give these homeless waifs a chance at finding families they could call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children.
Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children ventured forth on a journey of hope. Here, in the sequel to Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Andrea Warren introduces nine men and women who rode the trains and helped make history so... They were "throwaway" kids, living on the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister in New York City, sta...
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40,44 zł |
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Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
ISBN: 9780679885580 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to his brother Levi, describing life on the rugged Overland Trail. Extensively researched, with episodes based on true incidents, "the epistolary format and character development offer solid reading."--Booklist An IRA Teachers' Choice
In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to his b...
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28,72 zł |
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The Courage of Sarah Noble
ISBN: 9780684188300 / Angielski / Twarda / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Sarah Noble was eight years old she had her great adventure -- going with her father into the wilds of Connecticut to cook for him while he built a house.
There were Indians -- would they be friendly There were many times when Sarah had to say to herself, as her mother had said when she left home, Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble. Keep up your courage. This charming story is true. Tales of faith and courage and friendship are told over and over again and so kept alive. Here Sarah's adventure is told simply, with feeling and without unnecessary detail. When Sarah Noble was eight years old she had her great adventure -- going with her father into the wilds of Connecticut to cook for him while he built...
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80,18 zł |
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Peppe the Lamplighter
ISBN: 9780688154691 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Lois Lowry and Paul Fleischman, Elisa Bartone's Caldecott Honor-winning book gives children a glimpse into American history and the immigrant experience. This is the story of Peppe, who becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century New York City, despite his papa's disapproval. Peppe's family is very poor, and though he is just a boy he needs to find work. Being a lamplighter is not the job his father had dreamed of for Peppe, but when Peppe's job helps save his little sister, he earns the respect of his entire... In the tradition of Lois Lowry and Paul Fleischman, Elisa Bartone's Caldecott Honor-winning book gives children a glimpse into American history and... |
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32,68 zł |
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Dakota Dugout
ISBN: 9780689712968 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tell you about the prairie years? I'll tell you, child, how it was.
And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrations, readers can learn of life on the prairie as the settlers knew it -- seen through the eyes of a woman who lived there a century ago. Tell you about the prairie years? I'll tell you, child, how it was.
And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrat... |
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36,63 zł |
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The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
ISBN: 9780689825842 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. IMPOSSIBLE
When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreams of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks don't believe such a thing can be done. But eight long years after the first shovelful of earth is dug, Clinton realizes his vision at last. The longest uninterrupted canal in history has been built, and it is now possible to travel by water from the American prairie all the way to Europe Join Cheryl Harness on a fascinating and fun-filled trip as she depicts the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal. From the... IMPOSSIBLE
When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreams of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, f... |
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32,68 zł |
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Courage to Run
ISBN: 9780802440983 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800's. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. Should she obey her masters or listen to her conscience? This story from Harriet's childhood is a record of courage. Even more, it's a story of God's faithfulness, as He prepares her for her adult calling to lead more than 300 people out of slavery through the Underground Railroad. "Young readers will identify with Harriet Tubman's courage and faith as she uses the strength she gains through adversity to lead others to a new life of freedom.... Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800's. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. Should she obey h... |
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32,68 zł |