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  • Tanners: Colonial American Craftsmen

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Paperback (David R. Godine, Publisher, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Tanners in colonial days.

  • Cyclops

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Paperback (Holiday House, Sept. 1, 1993)
    Describes the encounter between the cyclops Polyphemus and Odysseus and his men after the end of the Trojan War.
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  • Gandhi

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Oct. 1, 1995)
    An introduction to the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi describes his refusal to meet violence with violence during his peaceful resistance campaign, a decision that eventually leads to India's freedom from tyrannical British rule.
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  • Ellis Island

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Library Binding (Holiday House, Sept. 1, 1986)
    A history of immigration through the port of New York, with special focus on the processing at Ellis Island
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  • The Homemakers

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Jan. 1, 1998)
    Describes how four staples--candles, soap, brooms, and cider--were made in colonial times
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  • The Schoolmasters

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, June 1, 1997)
    Describes what education and the schools were like in colonial times
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  • The Shipbuilders.

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, June 1, 1971)
    A concise history of shipbuilding in the American colonies, including illustrated descriptions of the design and construction of ocean-going vessels
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  • Monticello

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Hardcover (Holiday House, March 1, 1988)
    An intriguing tour of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, describes the history of the house, its design and construction, Jefferson's innovative inventions for the house, and its restoration
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  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Paperback (Holiday House, Jan. 1, 1992)
    Retells the Greek myth of the hero Theseus and his battle with the bull-headed monster called the Minotaur
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  • Sailboat Lost

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Aug. 1, 1991)
    Two boys are stranded when their boat is carried away by a high tide and then rescued when it returns
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  • Don Quixote and the Windmills

    Eric A. Kimmel, Leonard Everett Fisher

    Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), April 2, 2004)
    A self-proclaimed knightSeñor Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one. He gives himself a name more fitting for a knight -- Don Quixote -- and sets off one evening with his squire. At dawn they come across what Don Quixote recognizes as an army of monstrous giants. "Master!" cries Sancho Panza. "They are only windmills!" But Don Quixote knows what he has to do . . . Don Quixote is the creation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Eric A. Kimmel skillfully and cleverly crystallizes the character, and with his powerful line and vibrant color Leonard Everett Fisher completes the funny, loving portrait.
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  • The Tanners

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Dec. 1, 2000)
    Briefly shares the history of tanning, then explores the role and technique of tanning animal hides into leather during the American colonial period.
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