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 The Joys of LoveBest Price: $6.40 The story takes place in 1946, over 4 days in the life of Elizabeth Jerrold while she is working... |  A Company of SwansBest Price: $4.27 As someone who teaches eighth grade language arts, I read a lot of adolescent lit. This one is a... |  Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics)Best Price: $1.20 Lyddie is a very poor farm girl who has a crazed mother who believes everything to be a bad... |  Beyond the Desert GateBest Price: $6.90 Apollodorus is a merchant at Philadelphia in the Decapolis of ancient Palestine. Since the... |  The Good Fight : How World War II Was WonBest Price: $11.68 Are you looking for a short history book but has loads of information? If you're interested in... |
 Mr Revere and IBest Price: $2.00 "It all started with the imbecile, practically sacriligeous, determination of these... |  Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (Bloody Jack Adventures)Best Price: $2.00 I recently ordered 7 books-2 from Amazon and 5 from Smokey Mountain Books and all promptly... |  Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! (Unforgettable Americans)Best Price: $1.98 Jean Fritz is perhaps best known for her short picture book biographies of Revolutionary War... |  The Coffin Quilt: The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoysBest Price: $2.00 I live in the hills of West Virginia- not very far from where this story is set. When I was... |  Nobody's PrincessBest Price: $4.12 I felt like the idea of the book--Helen of Troy in her early days--was brilliant. ... |
 The Runner (The Tillerman Series #4)Best Price: $3.26 I read many Cynthia Voigt books years ago, but never came across The Runner. I happened on it... |  Six Million Paper Clips: The Making Of A Children's Holocaust MemorialBest Price: $4.02 This book is a companion to the HBO film of the same name. I use the film, and now the book,... |  Black Horses for the King (Magic Carpet Books)Best Price: $6.95 Though this book is aimed at young adults, I quite enjoyed it. It was a fast read, and I am... |  The Upstairs Room (Trophy Newbery)Best Price: $2.40 The writing is a bit choppy and hard to read at times. The story itself is great. There is quite... |  Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and BetrayalBest Price: $5.95 The plot grips you and is interwoven throughout the book-- I love it when bits and pieces of... |
 The Lantern BearersBest Price: $3.41 Another of Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman series is book, this again steps further forward in time,... |  Abigail Adams: Witness to a RevolutionBest Price: $5.58 This book did not have a purpose, Abigail Adams had no significant contributions to American... |  The King's ShadowBest Price: $1.49 My 5th grade teacher gave this book to me as a Christmas gift and I have read the copy so much... |  Morning Star of the Reformation (Light Line Ser.)Best Price: $4.85 I recommend this book for students ages 10-13 who are studying Martin Luther and the... |  Anna of ByzantiumBest Price: $0.74 Anna Comnena thought she would achieve immortality as Empress of Byzantium, but when her father... |
 A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures)Best Price: $1.00 Family Apart follows the lives of Irish children. They move from Ireland during the potato... |  A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A MelodramaBest Price: $3.99 Just like another reviewer said, this is better than some Newbery winners. It's the story of the... |  The Sea of TrollsBest Price: $3.44 Goods: The beggining wasn't that good but then when jack gets captured it went uphill from... |  Old MagicBest Price: $3.26 This book was alright. I didn't love it or hate it. Overall kinda dull...Kate was the least... |  The Road to MemphisBest Price: $0.01 This book was great. I read it for my class assignment . It is realistic because everyone... |
 The Power of One: Young Readers' Condensed EditBest Price: $3.29 Like the Kite Runner, this is a great come "full circle" book. Hard to put down. You... |  Cracker!: The Best Dog in VietnamBest Price: $6.87 This different view of the Vietnam War is filled with adventure, the danger, and the hardwork on... |  The Ransom of Mercy CarterBest Price: $2.50 I loved this book because it was about a girl that helped her mom so much. I liked that she... |  A Song for SummerBest Price: $4.05 As the daughter and niece of three of Britain's most powerful and influential women in the late... |  47Best Price: $3.20 47 is a delicate work that will make anyone identify with being a slave in pre-Civil War... |
 The Second Mrs. GiocondaBest Price: $3.95 The Second Mrs. Gioconda grabbed me from the first page and didn't let go. In addition to an... |  Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy)My mother's hometown is the real Deep Valley, and I have loved these books for as long as I can... |  TroyBest Price: $1.66 Movies about Troy concentrate on matters as seen from the perspective of the powerful .Thus the... |  The Master PuppeteerBest Price: $2.22 Jiro, a spirited yet clumsy boy, goes to the theater to work as an apprentice to get money to... |  Almost Home: A Story Based on the Life of the Mayflower's Mary Chilton (Daughters of the Faith Series)Best Price: $2.48 I was hooked from the first page. These books are a joy to read. They keep you interested and... |
 Mississippi Trial, 1955Best Price: $2.57 At first, Hiram is excited about visiting his favorite grandfather in Greenwood, Mississippi. ... |  Red Moon at SharpsburgBest Price: $5.99 As a history teacher, I was excited to see what I thought would be a book on one of the Civil... |  After the Dancing DaysBest Price: $1.95 Well, by now you must have read what the book is about, so I'll just write my reaction to it. ... |  Newes from the DeadBest Price: $8.47 1650 England, a young woman wakens in darkness 'curled on her side like a wood louse'. She... |  Where the Lilies BloomBest Price: $2.00 This was a good book. You have to see beyond the storyline. This is about a girl promising her... |
 The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic WorldBest Price: $6.49 Three stars for average. The story is slow and the characters are inconsistent, but the... |  Johnny Appleseed (All Aboard Reading)Best Price: $1.19 This story about John Chapman/Johnny Appleseed by Patricia Demuth is a Level 1 reader. This... |  Showcase Presents: Enemy Ace, Vol. 1Best Price: $8.84 The DC Showcase books are a way for fans of classic work to enjoy many of the rare and expensive... |  The CastawaysBest Price: $7.99 We come upon Tom Tin and his companions 11 days after leaving the islands of the cannibals. Not... |  The Temptation of the Night JasmineBest Price: $17.13 |
 Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack Adventures)Best Price: $1.99 Jacky Faber, fresh off a very famous whaling ship, goes to meet her beloved Jaimy, but sees him... |  The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre (Great Episodes)Best Price: $1.99 Who ever thought that a book on the Boston Massacre could be good reading? When it's Ann... |  Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083Best Price: $3.34 My daughter had this in her summer reading list and she loved the title and wanted it first. It... |  Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the HolocaustBest Price: $6.25 This book explains the depth the Nazis went to get rid of whole nationalities,races and... |  The RifleBest Price: $2.09 Oh PLEASE. Where to begin? A Revolutionary War-era rifle just happens to discharge and kill a... |
 Seventeenth SummerBest Price: $10.71 It is a pretty good book not the best. It is a little slow for me though. It discribes imagines... |  Tituba of Salem VillageTituba of Salem Village Ann Petry ... |  Keeping CornerBest Price: $6.40 I was amazed at the way this is written. I have been looking for books that my middle years... |  Soldier BoysBest Price: $2.00 My 3rd grader (age 8) brought this book home from the school library for Accelerated Reading. He... |  Asterix Omnibus 1: Includes Asterix and the Gaul #1, Asterix and the Golden Sickle #2, Asterix and the Goths #3 (Asterix)Best Price: $15.37 The hysterical historical hero from the Roman era continues to conquer the world! With more... |
 Beyond The Burning Time (Point Signature)Best Price: $7.00 Beyond the Burning Time is a wonderful book! Once I started it, I couldn't put it down! Kathryn... |  Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State BuildingBest Price: $6.98 In Depression-era New York City, dreams collide with reality. Our unnamed young narrator's... | |||
History & Historical Fiction Books
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