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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Clara Barton You Never Knew	James Lincoln Collier	Biography of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.	OL2626142W
Danny goes to the hospital	James Lincoln Collier	Describes some of the experiences one might have during a two-day stay in the hospital for minor surgery.	OL2626145W
The George Washington you never knew	James Lincoln Collier	Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that helped shape the life of the first president.	OL2626153W
It's murder at St. Basket's	James Lincoln Collier	Two boys boarding at an English school begin to fear for their roommate's life when the school officials simply ignore the fact that he has a broken leg.	OL2626161W
Me and Billy	James Lincoln Collier	After escaping the orphanage where they have spent their lives together, two boys become assistants to a con artist, and while Possum objects to the lying, stealing, and cheating, Billy only cares ab…	OL2626168W
My Brother Sam Is Dead	J Collier,James Lincoln Collier	Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.	OL2626169W
Planet out of the past	James Lincoln Collier	Young people search for hominids on another planet similar to Earth and experience all the dangers Earth possessed in prehistoric times.	OL2626172W
When the stars begin to fall	James Lincoln Collier	Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack communit…	OL2626185W
Why does everybody think I'm nutty?	James Lincoln Collier	Harold is sent to a psychiatrist for reporting that he had seen a medieval city. He later enters the city and travels back in time.	OL2626186W
The bloody country	James Lincoln Collier	In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.	OL2626190W
Give Dad My Best	James Lincoln Collier	During the depression a young boy tries to hold his family together until his father, an unemployed musician, finds work.	OL2626192W
The worst of times	James Lincoln Collier	In the early 1930s in Chicago, twelve-year-old Petey's family faces poverty and internal strife after his father loses his job, while, at the same time, his wealthy, older cousin takes on the dangero…	OL2626201W
The Corn Raid	McGraw-Hill - Jamestown Education,James Lincoln Collier	The friendship and loyalties of two twelve-year-old indentured servants--one English and one Native American--are tested when the English settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, plan a raid on a Powhatan In…	OL2626202W
War Comes to Willy Freeman	James Lincoln Collier	Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City.…	OL2626203W
The teddy bear habit	James Lincoln Collier	A twelve-year-old boy, whose problems include having to take "Square" music lessons, an attachment to a childhood teddy bear, and a father who earns a living creating comic strips, gets involved with…	OL2626205W
Jump Ship to Freedom	Christopher Collier,James Lincoln Collier	In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father f…	OL2626209W