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  • The Story of Nat Love

    Robert H. Miller, Michael Bryant

    Hardcover (Silver Burdett Pr, March 1, 1994)
    Recounts how Nat Love, born into slavery, became a skilled rider and cowhand and earned the name "Deadwood Dick" as the best rider and shot in Deadwood City, South Dakota
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  • Counting Kittens

    David Plummer, John Archambault, Liisa Chauncy Guida

    Hardcover (Silver Burdett Pr, Feb. 1, 1997)
    Offers an amusing, rhythmic counting tale for beginning readers that follows ten fun-loving and inquisitive kittens who take over a little boy's house, getting into anything and everything they can find.
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  • Coppelia

    Linda M. Jennings, Leo Delibes, Krystyna Turska

    Hardcover (Silver Burdett Pr, Sept. 1, 1986)
    A dollmaker cleverly schemes to pass his most beautiful doll off as a real girl, but he is outwitted by the townspeople he tries to deceive.
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  • In Search of Tutankhamen

    Piero Ventura, Gian Paolo Ceserani

    Library Binding (Silver Burdett Pr, Dec. 1, 1985)
    Traces the search for and discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and describes life in Egypt during the pharaoh's rule
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  • Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Boy with a camera

    John Cech

    Paperback (Silver Burdett Ginn, Jan. 1, 1996)
    Story of a boy's first camera in 1902. Great B&W photos.
  • Anne Frank

    Lina Tridenti

    Paperback (Silver Burdett Pr, Nov. 1, 1985)
    Describes Anne Frank's childhood in Frankfurt, Germany, explains why her family had to go into hiding from the Nazis, and recounts their fate at Auschwitz
  • Tingo Tango Mango Tree

    Marcia Vaughan, Yvonne Buchanan

    Library Binding (Silver Burdett Pr, Oct. 1, 1994)
    When tiger Sombala Bombala Rombala Roh grows a ripe, juicy, giant mango and tries to keep it for herself, she is outwitted by Bitteo Biteo the pack-rat
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  • Science Discovery Works: Unified Level 4

    Various

    Hardcover (Silver Burdett Pr, June 1, 1996)
    Science Discovery Works: Unified Level 4
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  • Fannie Lou Hamer: From Sharecropping to Politics

    David Rubel

    Paperback (Silver Burdett Pr, Sept. 1, 1990)
    Follows the life of one of the first Black organizers of voter registration in Mississippi
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  • The Trail on Which They Wept: The Story of a Cherokee Girl

    Dorothy Hoobler, Carey-Greenberg Associates, S. S. Burrus

    Paperback (Silver Burdett Pr, March 1, 1992)
    Forced to leave their homes in Georgia in 1837, Sarah Tsaluh Rogers, her family, and other Cherokees make the long and difficult journey along the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
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  • Clothes & Crafts in Victorian Times

    Philip Steele

    Paperback (Silver Burdett Pr, Feb. 1, 1998)
    Describes clothes and crafts throughout the nineteenth century, highlighting changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution and new technological developments.
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  • The Meiji Restoration and the Rise of Modern Japan

    Monique Avakian

    Paperback (Silver Burdett Pr, Oct. 1, 1991)
    Provides a detailed history of Japan from 1868 to 1912
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