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The Other Side of Jordan: A Story of the Underground Railroad
ISBN: 9780595702893 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Master James, a Missouri farmer during the 1850s, wants to make surehis slaves had a better life upon his death. So when he passes away, fourteen-year-old Joe, his pap, and the rest of the family are set free. Stepping in to help, the master's brother, Doc, travels with the freed family toIowa and lets them work on land that he owns, with the promise that one day itwill be their own. But it's not long before the family learns that even thoughthey have gained their freedom, they have not earned respect. They are taunted, harassed, and threatened. As his family struggles to maintain... Master James, a Missouri farmer during the 1850s, wants to make surehis slaves had a better life upon his death. So when he passes away, fourteen-y... |
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92,19 zł |
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Danny and Life on Bluff Point: The Conflict: Book Six in the Danny and Life on Bluff Point Series
ISBN: 9780595448081 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,59 zł |
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Journey to Gonzales
ISBN: 9780896726246 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nick is on a mission. Deeply troubled by the loss of a young friend at the Battle of San Jacinto, he wants desperately to return to the scene of the battle to alter history. But when he furtively opens the mysterious trunk, now in Mr. Barrington s attic, he is transported instead to Gonzales, Texas, in 1835. There he meets many historical characters, including the young Alamo defenders William King, John Gaston, and Galba Fuqua. (Will, Johnny, and Galba are introduced in Book 1 of the series.) Once befriended by them, Nick finds himself caught up in the excitement leading up to the Battle of...
Nick is on a mission. Deeply troubled by the loss of a young friend at the Battle of San Jacinto, he wants desperately to return to the scene of the b...
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79,59 zł |
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Little House on Rocky Ridge
ISBN: 9780064404785 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pioneer for a New Century Meet Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, and the last of the Little House girls. Rose and her parents, Laura and Almanzo, say good-bye to Ma and Pa Ingalls and Laura's sisters. In a covered wagon containing all their possessions, they make their way across the drought-stricken Midwest to the lush green valleys of southern Missouri. The journey is long and not always easy, but at the end is the promise of a new home and a new life for the Wilders. Little House on Rocky Ridge is the first book in The Rose Years, an... Pioneer for a New Century Meet Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, and the last of the Little House girls. R... |
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46,16 zł |
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Solomon
ISBN: 9781561644346 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accelerated Reader Quiz available: #117017 Eleven-year-old Solomon Freeman and his parents, newly freed slaves, are building a homestead in north Florida s wilderness, living their dream of independence. Their battle to survive is filled with harsh difficulties in this wild and fickle new home, and they all work long, hard days. Solomon s father, Moses, dreams of his only son sharing his love for the land. Lela, his mother, tries to shield Solomon from his father s expectations, for she knows that the boy s heart is not in the fields. Solomon is a natural... Accelerated Reader Quiz available: #117017 Eleven-year-old Solomon Freeman and his parents, newly freed slaves, are building a homeste... |
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45,99 zł |
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Sacajawea
ISBN: 9781596878792 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the middle of the city, between two tall, new buildings, stands a house that's not so tall and not so new. A lot has changed since the house was built. Once the block was filled with houses just like it, built of brick and stone. But one by one the others have all been replaced by office and apartment buildings of concrete and steel. The streetcar no longer runs past. The horses and carriages that used to carry people up and down the street are gone, too. But the house is still there, lying in shadow, almost hidden. The house belongs to Jacabee-an artist, adventurer, and explorer. He has...
In the middle of the city, between two tall, new buildings, stands a house that's not so tall and not so new. A lot has changed since the house was bu...
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41,79 zł |
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The Barn
ISBN: 9780545607445 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This moving story historical novel from master storyteller Avi will reach the wide audience it deserves with its beautiful and compelling new cover treatment.
Ben is away at school when his father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855. With no adults to help, he and his brother and sister must take over the family farm in Oregon Territory's rugged Willamette Valley. Despite his siblings' doubts, Ben is determined to build the barn Father had planned, in the hope of waking him from his silent, frozen state. But will it be enough?
This moving story historical novel from master storyteller Avi will reach the wide audience it deserves with its beautiful and compelling new cover tr...
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33,56 zł |
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Journey to Goliad
ISBN: 9780896726499 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hannah followed Nick's gaze to gray stone walls. In the corner, the highest point on the horizon, stood a chapel with a bell tower topped with a cross. It was Presidio La Bahia. They were headed back to the fort in Goliad. On the top of the wall, seven soldiers aimed muskets toward the prairie and hills.
Hannah followed Nick's gaze to gray stone walls. In the corner, the highest point on the horizon, stood a chapel with a bell tower topped with a cross...
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79,59 zł |
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The Listeners
ISBN: 9781585364190 / Angielski / Twarda / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ella May is a slave on a Southern plantation. Each night, Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their master's house in the hopes of gleaning information about their fates and those of their loved ones. Illustrations.
Ella May is a slave on a Southern plantation. Each night, Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their master's house in the ...
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79,76 zł |
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Elsie Dinsmore
ISBN: 9781438514338 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martha Finley was a 19th century American author of children's stories. Her characters were good children rewarded for their high moral character. She wrote Elsie Dinsmore in 1867. Elsie was a virtuous Christian girl who resisted small temptations. This book was enormously popular. Finley wrote 27 books about Elsie taking her through her adult life and ending with her as a grandmother. This series was popular in the United States and in Britain selling over 25,000,000 books.
Martha Finley was a 19th century American author of children's stories. Her characters were good children rewarded for their high moral character. She...
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112,67 zł |
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The Lintons of Skillet Bend: A Novel of East Texas
ISBN: 9781434403247 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Civil War lurches to a close, the Lintons of East Texas are waiting anxiously for their menfolk to return. But the stranger Finis Krim is attempting to extort land from the local women by claiming fraudulent commitments from their absent husbands. Krim's agent, Joshua Birdsong, is sent to the Linton home to search for relevant documents to wrest their farm away. Then Fate, in the person of five-year-old Julia, intervenes.
"A wonderful story "--Robert Reginald.
As the Civil War lurches to a close, the Lintons of East Texas are waiting anxiously for their menfolk to return. But the stranger Finis Krim is attem...
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65,81 zł |
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Rollo at Work (Yesterday's Classics)
ISBN: 9781599153421 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,51 zł |
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Rollo at Play (Yesterday's Classics)
ISBN: 9781599153438 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively collection of stories about Rollo and his every day adventures in growing up in 19th century rural America, that have delighted generations of children. At five Rollo enjoys playing in the woods, whether he's building a wigwam, setting a trap for a squirrel, or rescuing a baby bird. Yet events don't always turn out the ways he wants - the squirrel escapes, the blueberry expedition is delayed by rain and, when it finally does happen, he encounters trouble on the mountain. Yet Jonas and his parents help Rollo through all his difficulties, sometimes by aiding him directly but mostly by...
A lively collection of stories about Rollo and his every day adventures in growing up in 19th century rural America, that have delighted generations o...
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51,51 zł |
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Hope, Faith, and Love
ISBN: 9781440141522 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a family in the 1800's, leaving family and home to follow a dream of going West to the "Promised Land." The main character is a young tom-boyish girl named Johnnice who grows into a lovely woman. Johnnice's family is headed west with a wagon train when Indians sneak into their camp to steal their livestock and they abduct Johnnice. Johnnice's newly found love, Caleb is determined to find her and bring her back to the wagon train. The perils and dangers that this family goes through are insurmountable without their Faith and Courage and the love they have for each other....
This is the story of a family in the 1800's, leaving family and home to follow a dream of going West to the "Promised Land." The main character is a y...
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58,59 zł |
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Little Missy
ISBN: 9781934610039 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps beloved author Lindsay wrote "Little Missy" from the colorful childhood stories of growing up on the Winston Plantation in Tuscumbia, Alabama, that her mother passed along.
Perhaps beloved author Lindsay wrote "Little Missy" from the colorful childhood stories of growing up on the Winston Plantation in Tuscumbia, Alabama,...
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66,99 zł |
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The American Twins of 1812
ISBN: 9781934610176 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young Jonathan Ogden flees the rough treatment he is subjected on a Pennsylvania farm where he was "bound out" following the death of his parents. He finds himself in a heroic battle on "Old Ironsides."
Young Jonathan Ogden flees the rough treatment he is subjected on a Pennsylvania farm where he was "bound out" following the death of his parents. He ...
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58,59 zł |
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Cornelius & Gus
ISBN: 9780984078721 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a historical fiction book for children of all ages. Cornelius & Gus represent the millions who left their birthplace to come to America. Join them as they find their way to the New World in search of a better life.
This is a historical fiction book for children of all ages. Cornelius & Gus represent the millions who left their birthplace to come to America. Join ...
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54,56 zł |
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Crows & Cards
ISBN: 9780547339092 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Also included is Dictionariium Americannicum; being the words herein most arcane and alien and their definitions."
"Also included is Dictionariium Americannicum; being the words herein most arcane and alien and their definitions."
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83,96 zł |
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Sweet Betsy That's Me: A Child of the Civil War
ISBN: 9781440163234 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Civil War is seen through the unclouded vision of an eight year old girl living in western Kentucky. Betsy Johnson speaks about the war, President Lincoln, General Grant, God, the slavery question, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Medal of Honor, and her family. Her poignant and cogent observations make this a unique volume that will appeal to children of all ages. With authentic detail and a refreshing perspective, Sweet Betsy, will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.
The Civil War is seen through the unclouded vision of an eight year old girl living in western Kentucky. Betsy Johnson speaks about the war, President...
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45,99 zł |
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Harvey Girl
ISBN: 9780896725706 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. Harvey Girls served gourmet meals to passengers of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway (there were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years ). In a time when career choices for women were limited, becoming a Harvey Girl off ered rare independence for young ladies.
In 1919 one such aspirant is fourteen-year-old Clara Fern Massie, who runs away from home in the Ozarks after standing up to her harsh father. Heading... During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. Harvey Girls served...
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79,59 zł |