Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Your friend, Natalie Popper Your friend, Natalie Popper Nancy Smiler Levinson In the summer of 1946 Natalie looks forward to going to camp for the first time and being together with her friend Corinne but things do not turn out as she anticipates. OL15860659W
Sweet notes, sour notes Sweet notes, sour notes Nancy Smiler Levinson David, a struggling young musician, learns that perseverance is the only way to succeed in learning to play the violin. OL15862217W
Magellan and the first voyage around the world Magellan and the first voyage around the world Nancy Smiler Levinson Recounts Ferdinand Magellan's journey around the world, despite hardship's of hunger, violent weather, and attacks, this voyage changed history by proving the world is round. Determined to find a new… OL16070521W
I lift my lamp I lift my lamp Nancy Smiler Levinson A biography of the American poet, activist for humane causes, and friend to immigrants, who authored the noble words now inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. OL16993075W
The Ruthie Greene Show The Ruthie Greene Show Nancy Smiler Levinson Fifteen-year-old Ruthie, feeling her intelligence and creativity are underrated by family and teachers, acquires a sympathetic television producer as a mentor and helps on a TV production. OL17677285W
Chuck Yeager Chuck Yeager Nancy Smiler Levinson A biography of the Air Force test pilot who in 1947 was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. OL18837650W
Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus Nancy Smiler Levinson A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India. OL19352959W
Clara and the bookwagon Clara and the bookwagon Nancy Smiler Levinson Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library. OL90347W
The first women who spoke out The first women who spoke out Nancy Smiler Levinson Presents the lives and achievements of six women--Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone--whose activities to earn rights for women took gre… OL90349W
North Pole, South Pole North Pole, South Pole Nancy Smiler Levinson An introduction to the geography, climate, and inhabitants of the polar regions at the top and the bottom of the earth where the North Pole and the South Pole are located. OL90351W