Emily Arnold McCully
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen,...
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English
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Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
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English
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A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
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English
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Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell became widely known for her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust-a complicated business empire run by tycoon John D. Rockefeller-that revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success.
Rejecting the term "muckraker" to describe her profession, she went on to achieve remarkable prominence for a woman of her generation as a writer and shaper...
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English
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Award-winning author Emily McCully's most adventurous book to date draws a dramatic portrait of life in nineteenth century America.
For as long as he can remember, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau has been told that a promising future lies ahead of him. After all, his mother is the great Sacagawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition of discovery. And thanks to his mother, Baptiste's life changes forever when Captain Clark offers him an...
7) Wonder Horse
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Language
English
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Emily Arnold McCully won a Caldecott Medal for her book Mirette on the High Wire. In Wonder Horse, McCully crafts a charming tale based on the true story of Doc Key and his remarkable horse Jim. When Doc Key decides to breed a racehorse, what he gets is a foal with weak legs yet an unusually sharp mind. So Doc decides to teach his horse some new tricks-including reading and writing. ". fun . its humane message is an important one."-Publishers Weekly...
9) Picnic
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A little mouse gets lost on the way to a family picnic.
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnamʼs Sons
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
11) School
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Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.
12) First snow
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The first snow has fallen; so the mice children spend the day ice skating and sledding with their Grandma and Grandpa.
16) The pirate queen
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Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1v. (unpaged) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not what they expected, and in fact far more valuable: the walls were covered with stunning prehistoric paintings and engravings, preserved within the sealed cave for over 17,000 years. This is the true story of the boys who discovered the cave of Lascaux, bringing to the modern world powerful examples...
19) Monk camps out
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young mouse decides to spend the night camping out alone in his backyard, but his parents have other ideas.
20) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?