ilość książek w kategorii: 197
Pink and Say
ISBN: 9780399226717 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times.
I will tell it in Sheldon's own words as nearly as I can. He was wounded in a fierce battle and left for dead in a pasture somewhere in Georgia when Pinkus found him. Pinkus' skin was the color of polished mahogany, and he was flying Union colors like the wounded boy, and he picked him up out of the field and brought him to where the black soldier's mother, Moe Moe Bay, lived. She had soft, gentle hands and cared for him and her Pink.... When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times.
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87,32 zł |
With Lee in Virginia
ISBN: 9780486434568 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this spirited tale of adventure, Vincent Wingfield, who is not yet sixteen, returns home to Virginia after four years of school in England to find conditions in America greatly unsettled. When war breaks out in 1861, Vincent staunchly supports the rights of slaves but joins Lee's cavalry to fight for the Confederacy.
Henty's gripping story, written several decades after the war, weaves the spirited teenager's adventures with real-life events, while providing an acute glimpse of the conflict from a Southern perspective. A prolific 19th-century author, G. A. Henty celebrates family,... In this spirited tale of adventure, Vincent Wingfield, who is not yet sixteen, returns home to Virginia after four years of school in England to find ...
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74,04 zł |
The Emancipators
ISBN: 9780595426942 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a tragic boating accident kills the owners of a plantation in the post-Civil War South, their four-year-old daughter, Ellen, is left orphaned. At the reading of the will, black couple Will and Hannah, whose family has lived and worked on the Mitchell plantation for generations, are shocked to learn they have inherited the land and the trusted charge of raising Ellen. Will and Hannah are humbled by the trust the Mitchells had in them, but terrified of the future without their guidance. Despite protests from white landowners, Will and Hannah raise Ellen to adulthood along with their... After a tragic boating accident kills the owners of a plantation in the post-Civil War South, their four-year-old daughter, Ellen, is left orphaned... |
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47,83 zł |
Gettysburg Miracle: Brother & Sister Caught In The Battle
ISBN: 9780595446926 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ben feels the dirt cellar floor rolling under his feet. A cloud of fine dust rises from the floor making him sneeze. He hears cannon shells shriek, howl, and whistle overhead somewhere not far from his Gettysburg home." Two of the largest armies the world has ever seen collide in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg in July 1863. For three days, one hundred and seventy thousand combatants struggle to determine the future of the United States of America. This is the story of a brother and sister caught in the Battle of Gettysburg. While this story is fictional, it is based on carefully...
"Ben feels the dirt cellar floor rolling under his feet. A cloud of fine dust rises from the floor making him sneeze. He hears cannon shells shriek, h...
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47,83 zł |
Bigger
ISBN: 9780689860034 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1865 the Civil War has finally ended. Men are coming home. Families are being reunited -- except for Tyler's. His father is going with a band of men to Mexico, where they will regroup, rearm, and continue the fight against the Yankees. Tyler is stunned. For four years he's dreamed of seeing his father again, and he can't let go of that dream. There's only one thing Tyler can do -- go get his father and bring him home.
Tyler starts his trek from Missouri to the Rio Grande alone, but he quickly gains a companion -- a strange dog made mean by cruelty but tamed by hunger and... In the spring of 1865 the Civil War has finally ended. Men are coming home. Families are being reunited -- except for Tyler's. His father is going wit...
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39,09 zł |
Broken Drum
ISBN: 9781572490277 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story of Charley King, a 12-year-old drummer boy from Pennsylvania, who is caught up in the excitement and patriotism during the early stages of the Civil War, is based on an actual person. Mustered into Company F of the Pennsylvania 49th Volunteers in September 1861, his journey begins with the defense of Washington as part of Major General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Charley is involved in the transport of that huge army down the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, and then, by land, the grueling progression of the Peninsula Campaign and its disappointing retreat,...
This story of Charley King, a 12-year-old drummer boy from Pennsylvania, who is caught up in the excitement and patriotism during the early stages of ...
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56,56 zł |
Hayfoot, Strawfoot: The Bucktail Recruits
ISBN: 9781572492509 / Angielski / Miękka / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two innocent boys from a backwater hamlet march off to the turmoil of the Civil War and bond to face the rigors of armor life and the hope for glory.
Two innocent boys from a backwater hamlet march off to the turmoil of the Civil War and bond to face the rigors of armor life and the hope for glory.
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56,56 zł |
The Soldier in the Cellar
ISBN: 9781572492998 / Angielski / Miękka / 89 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aunt Penny is moving into an old house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Philip and Zach, along with their friend Chucky, help Aunt Penny move in. Elbow grease can clear the house of dust and the yard of weeds, but it will take some investigating and ghostly help to clear the root cellar of its frightening secret.
Aunt Penny is moving into an old house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Philip and Zach, along with their friend Chucky, help Aunt Penny move in. Elbow gr...
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34,72 zł |
No Girls Allowed
ISBN: 9781572493247 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Civil War was fought by men. Men started it and men ended it. At least that is what everyone thought. With Civil War destroying the country, Mary Adams and Lynn Rhodes decide to help even if they aren't wanted. Mary joins an aid society and helps to heal the wounded, eventually meeting Clara Barton. Lynn joins her twin brother and disguises herself as a boy to fight alongside the men and boys of the Union army. Each of them faces different challenges as they struggle to be treated as equals. During the Battle of Antietam, these two very different girls, who choose two very different...
The Civil War was fought by men. Men started it and men ended it. At least that is what everyone thought. With Civil War destroying the country, Mary ...
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34,72 zł |
No Sisters Sisters Club: A Bailey Fish Adventure
ISBN: 9781881539407 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eleven-year-old Bailey Fish is starting to enjoy her new life in Virginia after her traveling mother sends her to live with her grandmother, Sugar. Suddenly strangers arrive--a father she does not know and an annoying half sister. Norma Jean smiles too much, touches everything, and is not like Bailey's best friends who are more like real sisters. Norma Jean even sees the good in Justin, a former bully, who is raising a pet crow. Bailey and her best friends form the No Sisters Sisters Club to keep Norma Jean out. Attitudes change when the sisters learn that they must work together to solve the...
Eleven-year-old Bailey Fish is starting to enjoy her new life in Virginia after her traveling mother sends her to live with her grandmother, Sugar. Su...
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48,05 zł |
In Sherman's Wake: Survival in Northwest Georgia
ISBN: 9780595456598 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On May 30, 1863, Jane Taylor witnessed Rome, Georgia's first encounter with the Civil War. "The Yankees are coming to burn Rome!" The cries were echoed everywhere. The citizens of Rome had sent their soldiers off to fight for the Confederacy. Rome would now be defended by boys, old men and recuperating soldiers from the hospitals. Jane realized the peril for Rome and for her beloved Wood's Bend. She resolved that she and her neighbors would survive in this war! They had to plan if they were to survive. From that time the energies and minds of the group living at Wood's Bend focused on ways to...
On May 30, 1863, Jane Taylor witnessed Rome, Georgia's first encounter with the Civil War. "The Yankees are coming to burn Rome!" The cries were echoe...
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60,93 zł |
Secrets of Civil War Spies
ISBN: 9780310713906 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revised edition, The Liberty Letters(r) series introduces fictional characters whose courage, ingenuity, and faith shaped events in U.S. history. Through the power of friendship, each story reveals how God works through ordinary teens in extraordinary times. THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES THROWS TWO YOUNG WOMEN INTO A WORLD OF INTRIGUE Disguised as a Yankee soldier and fighting with her regiment on Virginia battlefields, Emma goes undercover as a spy for the Union. In Richmond, her friend Molly discovers a spy ring against the Confederacy. While the war tears the nation apart, both girls...
In this revised edition, The Liberty Letters(r) series introduces fictional characters whose courage, ingenuity, and faith shaped events in U.S. histo...
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39,27 zł |
The Witness Tree and the Shadow of the Noose: Mystery, Lies, and Spies in Manassas
ISBN: 9781572493971 / Angielski / Miękka / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jake Salmon's family has moved to a creepy, cramped house in historic Manassas, on the outskirts of the famous Civil War battlefield. Outside his bedroom window stands an old oak tree where, by night, a street lamp throws a shadow from the tree onto his closet door in the appearance of a hang-man's noose. Late one night, Jake hears footsteps in the basement. Convinced there's a killer hiding in his house, he does what any other twelve-year-old would do. He ducks under his pillow and hides. But when he witnesses a man running across their snow-covered lawn without leaving any footprints, Jake...
Jake Salmon's family has moved to a creepy, cramped house in historic Manassas, on the outskirts of the famous Civil War battlefield. Outside his bedr...
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39,09 zł |
Sarah's Secret: Civil War Deserter at Fredericksburg
ISBN: 9781572494008 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1862, the Civil War battle at Fredericksburg looms too close to home for Sarah, a teenage farm girl who has lost twin brothers in the war. Frightened and angry, Sarah wonders how much closer the fighting will get and how much more her family will lose. Then Sarah discovers a young Union soldier sleeping in her hayloft. Sarah faces a big dilemma: Should she tell her parents about the enemy deserter or keep this dangerous secret to herself?
In 1862, the Civil War battle at Fredericksburg looms too close to home for Sarah, a teenage farm girl who has lost twin brothers in the war. Frighten...
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39,09 zł |
A House Divided
ISBN: 9780875651224 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."--A. Lincoln
Continuing the saga told in "Letters to ""Oma" of the von Scholls, a German family immigrating to Texas in 1847, "A House Divided" tells the story of the effect of the Civil War on German Texans who frowned on slavery and, like Sam Houston, thought the Union must be preserved at all costs. The von Scholl family is split apart when two brothers choose different sides--Will joining the Confederacy and Fred refusing to fight. When Fred is killed by renegade southerners and Will captured by Union soldiers, sixteen-year-old... "A house divided against itself cannot stand."--A. Lincoln
Continuing the saga told in "Letters to ""Oma" of the von Scholls, a German family immi... |
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Retreat from Gettysburg
ISBN: 9781572494039 / Angielski / Miękka / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Williamsport boy faces difficult choices when rising Potomac River floodwater traps the Confederate army to reach Virginia after its battle at Gettysburg. His patriotic feeling is tested when in caring for a wounded Confederate, he recognizes the humanity of the other side.
A Williamsport boy faces difficult choices when rising Potomac River floodwater traps the Confederate army to reach Virginia after its battle at Getty...
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56,56 zł |
Caves, Cannons and Crinolines
ISBN: 9781606191125 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi, outspoken fourteen-year-old Lizzie Stamford yields to her secret desire to join the Confederate Army disguised as a boy, but she quickly learns that neither war nor all Yankees are what she believed them to be.
In 1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi, outspoken fourteen-year-old Lizzie Stamford yields to her secret desire to join the Confederate Army disguised as a bo...
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65,30 zł |
Legacy 2nd Edition, The Days of David Crockett Whitt
ISBN: 9780578082196 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enhanced with new material, pictures, and genealogy, this volume highlights an Appalachian family that relied on God for help throughout the rough times in the 19th century. Several chapters cover David Crockett Whitt's trip to Greenup County, Kentucky, and back to Virginia, and his military service in the 29th Virginia Infantry.
Enhanced with new material, pictures, and genealogy, this volume highlights an Appalachian family that relied on God for help throughout the rough tim...
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122,30 zł |
Ellen's Broom
ISBN: 9780399250033 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special. Before it was legal for her mother and father to officially be married, the broom was what made them a family anyway. But now all former slaves who had already been married in their hearts could register as lawful husband and wife. When Ellen and her family make the long trip to the courthouse dressed in their best, she brings the broom her parents had jumped so many years before. Even though freedom has come, Ellen knows the old...
A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special....
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82,95 zł |
Hunter Jones Joins The Civil War (Indian Territory)
ISBN: 9781439238523 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunter Jones Joins The Civil War (Indian Territory) *Hunter Jones is a 12-years-old orphan. Without a family or a place to go, when the Civil War breaks out, Hunter gets sucked up into it and carried off to high adventures and exciting escapades. We're with him when he learns about how the Indians got to Indian Territory and why some fought for the North and some fought for the South. We're with him when he learns about how Confederate soldiers from Texas plan to go up through the New Mexico Territory and capture the gold mines in Colorado to help pay for the Southern war effort. We're with...
Hunter Jones Joins The Civil War (Indian Territory) *Hunter Jones is a 12-years-old orphan. Without a family or a place to go, when the Civil War brea...
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32,61 zł |