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  • The Codebreaker Kids

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Avon Books, May 1, 1987)
    Three friends form a codebreaking service and meet a motley cast of characters including a Bulgarian spy, a man from the State Department, and a little old lady who wants her diary encoded.
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  • Adam Sharp, the Spy Who Barked

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, April 9, 2002)
    Eight-year-old spy Adam Sharp pursues the very short Ambassador of Barkastan, who has stolen a top secret computer program, DOGBARK, that will let him understand the language of dogs.
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  • Sterling Biographies®: Sitting Bull: Great Sioux Hero

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Sterling, Oct. 5, 2010)
    “I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.” Sitting Bull lived and died for his people, the Sioux of the Great Plains. Renowned author George Edward Stanley traces Sitting Bull's lifelong fight for justice and struggle to retain his tribe's ancestral lands, as well as the battle at Little Bighorn and the terrible massacre at Wounded Knee that occurred in the wake of his death.
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  • Sterling Biographies®: Davy Crockett: Frontier Legend

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Sterling, Aug. 5, 2008)
    Davy Crockett was a child of the frontier, where violence and danger were everywhere. A hunter, soldier, and backwoods politician, he helped settle large swaths of the still-growing United States. In the process, he became an American legend, with his life and exploits dramatized—and often fictionalized—in film and TV. Renowned author George Edward Stanley tells the true story: his difficult childhood; his time in the militia fighting the Indians and the British; his decision to become a Justice of the Peace and eventually run for the Tennessee State Legislature; and his final stand, and death, at the famous battle of the Alamo.
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  • London Calling

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Scholastic, Inc., July 6, 2005)
    He's tracked down bad guys. He's saved the world (several times). Pick up the line, Adam Sharp! It's . . . "London Calling"!Who would steal Big Ben, the most famous clock in the world? Superspy Adam Sharp jets off to England to find out. But when he gets to London, it's overrum with cowboys and cowgirls. They're having a hoedown in the House of Lords. They're square dancing in Buckingham Palace. Has England gone hog-wild?
  • Ukrainian Egg Mystery

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Avon Books, April 1, 1986)
    The hockey team of a small girl's school gets on the wrong airplane and ends up involved in an international match in the Soviet Union and a search for missing jewels.
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  • America And The Cold War: 1949-1969

    George Edward Stanley

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Each book in this series uses a variety of primary source documents--including newspaper articles, speeches, diary entries, letters, and acts of legislation--to provide a unique perspective on historical events, and is enhanced with a time line, glossary, index, and sources for further information.
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  • Writing Short Stories for Young People

    George Edward Stanley

    Hardcover (Writers Digest Books, Feb. 1, 1987)
    Describes the formats of the basic children's genres, offers advice on plot, character, dialogue, research, and editing, and tells how to submit a manuscript
  • The Codebreaker Kids Return

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Camelot, Dec. 1, 1988)
    As Dinky Lakewood and his wacky friends decode football cheers for the annual grudge match between two powerhouse football teams, this interactive text offers readers a chance to become involved in the cryptology
  • Rats in the Attic and Other Stories to Make Your Skin Crawl

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Flare, Feb. 1, 1995)
    A chilling collection of scary stories offers such wicked delights as rats in the attic, hide-and-seek in the funeral parlor, vampires in old tunnels, and walks at midnight with hooded strangers. Original.
  • Swimming with Sharks

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Scholastic, Inc., March 15, 2004)
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  • Sterling Biographies: Davy Crockett: Frontier Legend

    George Edward Stanley

    Hardcover (Sterling, Aug. 5, 2008)
    Loads of information are packed into each title of this series about world inventors and innovative thinkers, including time lines, sidebars, a glossary, maps, rare photographs, and world-class writing that makes these books accessible and dramatic.
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