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  • The Ottawa

    Elaine Landau

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, June 1, 1996)
    Views the life and culture of the Great Lakes Native American tribe and presents a fact-filled, intriguing exploration into the traditions, society, culture, and lifestyle of the Ottawa tribe.
    P

  • Shirley Chisholm

    Jill S. Pollack

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Aug. 1, 1994)
    A biography of the first African American woman to be elected to Congress, and to run for a major party nomination for president recounts her girlhood in Barbados and her entry into politics
    U

  • Joined at Birth: The Lives of Conjoined Twins

    Elaine Landau

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, April 1, 1997)
    Explores the issue of conjoined twins, including a discussion of the difficult decision regarding physical separation that parents must face
    S

  • Great Zimbabwe

    Mark Bessire

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, March 1, 1999)
    A survey of the history and culture of Great Zimbabwe, the capital of a powerful city-state that flourished in southern Africa from about 1300 to 1525.
    U

  • World War I

    Tom McGowen

    Paperback (Franklin Watts, March 1, 1993)
    Provides an overview of the military battles and political changes that occurred during World War I
    Y

  • My Circle Book

    Agnese Baruzzi

    Board book (White Star Kids, April 3, 2018)
    A cute board book that teaches basic shapes with colorful, appealing, everyday items!What’s a circle? A clock, buttons, a donut, a ball. From a face to a lollipop, the images on each joyfully colored page show the circular shapes that are all around us.
    F

  • The Potawatomi

    Suzanne Powell

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 1997)
    Describes the history and customs of the Potawatomi people
    S

  • My First Math Book: Counting: a unique introduction to numbers

    Christine Dillard

    Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 7, 2018)
    Quantities can be a difficult concept for the emerging mind of an infant to grasp. This book was designed to help parents clearly convey what numbers mean. If you say to an infant while looking at a picture book, “There are two dogs,” this can be interpreted in many ways. Is the thing your pointing at called two dogs? Is the name of the dogs two? Or perhaps dogs on a grassy field are referred to as two. Using basic images and the guidance of parents, this book tries to clarify the meaning of one, two, three, four and five for the youngest inquisitive minds.

  • The Story of Gold

    Hal Hellman

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, May 1, 1996)
    Presents a detailed, informative look at the impact that gold, one of the most intriguing of all chemical elements, has had on the world--from an object of worship and the inspiration for vast explorations to its role in modern technology.
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  • Big or Small?

    Agnese Baruzzi

    Board book (Sterling Publishing, May 23, 2017)
    A colorful and captivating early concept book—illustrated in Agnese Baruzzi’s inimitable style! Is it big . . . or is it small? You can’t be sure until you’ve turned the page! Is that an elephant’s tail—or does it belong to a tiny mouse? Is that a huge tornado brewing? Or could it be a snail’s swirly shell? This board book makes learning about relative size enormous fun!
    F

  • City-States of the Swahili Coast

    Thomas H. Wilson

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 1998)
    Discusses the history and culture of the Swahili peoples living along the eastern coast of Africa, from present-day Somalia to Mozambique.
    V

  • The Colonial Wars: Clashes in the Wilderness

    Alden R. Carter

    Paperback (Franklin Watts, March 1, 1993)
    Chronicles the history of the Colonial Wars, also called the French and Indian Wars, which gave the British control of North America
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