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 The Goat LadyBest Price: $6.79 The Goat Lady, so lovingly portrayed by neighborhood children and their mother, is a... |  Going Where I'm Coming from: Memoirs of American YouthBest Price: $15.00 14 short memoirs about growing up in America's diverse society: Power, L. Rodriguez, Ruff, Moss,... |  The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young PeopleBest Price: $62.87 This was the first book I found when I started accepting my sexuality, and I have to say I was... |  Little Big Book of Disney, TheBest Price: $75.00 This book is amazing. John is the best. Better than the rest. Universal stinks!!!!!!!!!!!! |  Two Fisted Science: Stories About ScientistsBest Price: $7.71 I'm not sure if it is entirely fair for me to give a review of this book, since I was one of the... |
 Walking Stars: Stories of Magic and PowerBest Price: $1.95 Acclaimed Latino writer's collection for young adults Best-selling novelist Victor Villase?or... |  Thomas Jefferson: Man on a MountainBest Price: $10.89 As a life long Jefferson fan, I enjoyed this book immensely, but am concerned that Bober does... |  Sterling Point Books: The Great Escape: Tunnel to Freedom (Sterling Point Books)Best Price: $6.95 A spine-tingling, suspenseful true story of escape during World War II. Spring, 1943; Stalag... |  Anne Frank: Life in HidingBest Price: $0.94 This book is magical, because it shows you and makes you feel like you are the scene. It made me... |  HomesickBest Price: $5.75 Homesick is a great, interesting story that summarizes her childhood life. Jean Fritz uses... |
 All by HerselfBest Price: $2.49 As a parent and teacher of young girls, I found this book to be an inspiration. My 8 year old... |  I Don't Want To Be CrazyBest Price: $2.82 Okay, well I'm not sure why everyone thinks this is such a magnificent book. The story line was... |  Jungle Calls (The Rani Adventures; Bk. 3) (Rani Adventures) (Rani Adventures)Best Price: $3.51 My son, 12 and daughter 14 both enjoy the Rani adventures. It's a great true story full of... |  War Boy: A Wartime ChildhoodBest Price: $16.93 For American kids also born in 1938 as was Michael Foreman we only thought we suffered under the... |  Sterling Point Books: Invasion: The Story of D-Day (Sterling Point Books)Best Price: $3.45 June 6, 1944: The greatest amphibious invasion the world had ever seen was launched, involving... |
 Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their LivesBest Price: $6.45 This book is great! As the young writers wrote each of their individual stories, I began to see... |  George Washington and the Founding of a Nation (PB)Best Price: $2.70 Marrin's book is history at its most entertaining and enlightening! Although targeted at young... |  Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and CountrywomanThis is my favorite biography of Beatrix Potter, thoroughly researched and historically... |  The Dark Side of CamelotBest Price: $0.23 Given the obvious falsehood of the Clinton era nonsense that personal morality is irrelevant to... |  Coming Home: From the Life of Langston HughesBest Price: $2.62 Floyd Cooper's book is the perfect introduction to the early life of one of America's literary... |
 Rachel's Challenge: A Columbine LegacyBest Price: $54.39 On April 20, 1999, Rachel Scott was eating lunch with a friend in front of her high school when... |  The Stone GoddessBest Price: $6.78 I'm sure this is the best book written by Mingfong Ho yet. Some of her earlier novels like The... |  Greatness Of GirlsBest Price: $3.99 For anyone who wants to encourage girls to reach for the stars, this book highlights the... |  Remix: Conversations with Immigrant TeenagersBest Price: $18.00 Remix gets to the core of what it is to be an immigrant teen in the US today. Budhos allows the... |  Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial RevolutionBest Price: $22.35 I chose to read Big Annie of Calumet because it features a strong female protagonist, who... |
 Sterling Point Books: Danger in the Desert: True Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter (Sterling Point Books)Best Price: $3.75 In the movies, there’s Indiana Jones; but in the real world, there was Roy Chapman... |  Letters to Oma: A Young German Girl's Account of Her First Year in Texas, 1847 (A Chaparral Book)Best Price: $7.39 I should give it more, but it's fictional, and I like true tales of the past. It's fairly short... |  Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil WarBest Price: $24.00 A Marrin is a wonderful author. He makes history come alive. He writes in an interesting manner... |  Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of SacagaweaBest Price: $4.95 I originally read this in jr. high when I really did not have all that much appreciation for the... |  Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish Reader)Best Price: $6.00 This editions of Spanish Reader are excellent for my Spanish 4 classes and for my AP Spanish. ... |
 Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries (Rare Treasure)Best Price: $2.45 Mary Anning was born to a poor family and grew up on Great Britain's southern shores. Her... |  Thurgood Marshall (Black Americans of Achievement)Best Price: $0.01 In the book 'Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice' Lisa Aldred acurately tells the story of... |  The Busy, Busy World of Richard ScarryBest Price: $32.97 This is an amusing book written by a good friend of the original Richard Scarry. It's intended... |  "Life is a Jungle!" (Book Two of the Rani Adventures)Best Price: $6.38 My son and daughter (12 and 14) both love the Rani adventures. They are true stories with great... |  Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Creator (Barnard Biography Series (Berkeley, Calif.).)Best Price: $6.81 This biography of Mary Shelly offers very moving insights into the life (sorrows, defeats,... |
 A Spanish Reader, Miguel De Unamuno (Spanish Reader)Best Price: $8.24 |  Yoni Netanyahu (Jps Young Biography Series.)Best Price: $7.56 Yoni Netanhayu, an israeli hero, was related to former israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. |  The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (Newbery Honor Book)Best Price: $13.25 Freedman's interesting narrative of the Wright brothers portrays them as proper gentlemen who... |  Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and His BuccaneersBest Price: $27.95 I had heard of Henry Morgan and the buccaneers, but did not know much about them before I read... |  Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American FamilyBest Price: $6.71 this inspiring book was written by a friend of mine...who i've known since he was shorter than i... |
 Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis WheatleyBest Price: $1.48 I found this historical novel of Phillis Wheatley's life as a young African slave girl to be... |  Poets of World War I: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)Best Price: $31.95 Though overshadowed by others, Rupert Brooke's gifts as a poet were palpable; Siegfried Sassoon... |  Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston (Great Achievers)Best Price: $3.50 |  Graduating Girlhood: A Teenage Girl's Guide to Success in Relationships and LifeBest Price: $6.85 My daughter recieved this book as a gift for her 13th birthday. It was perfect timing! We... |  The Endless Steppe (rack): Growing Up in SiberiaBest Price: $1.99 terrific book, just the reality type show we need instead of bimbos and druggies. this touches... |
 Belles on Their ToesBest Price: $105.51 Wonderful book if you like vintage stories, especially of large innovative families. There... |  The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth SummerBest Price: $2.00 THE SHIPPING TIME WAS GREAT.THE COPY WAS PERFECT.ONCE AGAIN I AM SO VERY SATISFIED WITH AMAZON. ... |  But I'll Be Back AgainBest Price: $52.50 I teach reading, and I like Rylant's work. For me, BIBBA was personal. Rylant grew up near... |  Why Do They Hate Me?: Young Lives Caught In War And ConflictBest Price: $2.95 The first two sections of this book, concerning World War II's Holocaust and the... |  Song of the MagdaleneBest Price: $3.30 i'm 17 yrs old and truthfully know nothing about world history. I have common sense, and i sort... |
 Jonas Salk (Makers of Modern Science)Best Price: $19.89 |  Latino Writers in the U.S. (Literary Reader)Best Price: $5.00 |  Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of ArcBest Price: $13.95 While this book is written for the young adult, I read it recently as a "older" adult... |  Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (Oxford Profiles)Best Price: $70.98 Here, in a single volume, are the profiles of all the individuals and organizations that have... |  John Irving (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)Best Price: $38.25 Irving's works, which include The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, have been... |
 Maya Lin: Architect and Artist (People to Know)Best Price: $124.85 Maya Lin by Mary Malone is about twenty-one year old Maya deciding her future career. Maya Lin... |  Alex Haley & Malcolm X's the Autobiography of Malcolm X (Bloom's Notes)first off i want to thank malcolm x for his thoughts on race after visiting mecca.he saw that... |  The Hunt and the Feast: A Life of Ernest Hemingway (Impact Biography)Best Price: $10.00 |  African American Women Writers (Black Stars)Best Price: $12.54 Meet the black women writers who Lived Their Dreams -from the early years to modern times ... | |
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