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The cuckoo that couldn't count
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Jean Lee Latham |
The big clocks said, "Bong," the little clocks said, "Ping," but Calloway only said, "Cuckoo," no matter what the time. A story to tell aloud with the audience supplying "Bongs," "Pings," and "Cuckoo… |
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Drake, the man they called a pirate
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Jean Lee Latham |
Adventures of the piratical Elizabethan mariner who contributed enormously to the growth of sixteenth-century English sea power. |
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Far voyager
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Jean Lee Latham |
The life of a laborer's son who attained his dream of becoming a British Navy Captain in a day when officers came only from the upper class. |
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George Goethals, Panama Canal engineer
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Jean Lee Latham |
A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal. |
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Nutcracker
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Jean Lee Latham |
After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps to break the spell he is under and watches him change into a handsome prince. |
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Eli Whitney, great inventor
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Jean Lee Latham |
A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks. |
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Elizabeth Blackwell, pioneer woman doctor
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Jean Lee Latham |
A biography of the first woman doctor in the United States who worked in England and the U.S. to open the field of medicine to women. |
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Retreat to glory
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Jean Lee Latham |
The childhood, military career, and political life of the man who fought for the statehood of Texas. |
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Sam Houston
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Jean Lee Latham |
A brief account of Sam Houston who served as a Congressman and Governor of Tennessee before his association with Texas began. |
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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
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Jean Lee Latham |
This is without doubt one of the most inspiring books I've read. Read it to my 6th graders every year, and of the many books I read to them, they rated it the highest every year. I guarantee you wi… |
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Ali Baba
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Jean Lee Latham,Pablo Ramírez |
A story from the Arabian Nights, which tells of a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret hiding place where a band of robbers keep their stolen riches. |
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