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The broken blade
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William Durbin |
In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre q… |
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Tiger Woods
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William Durbin |
Examines the life and golf career of the young man who racked up numerous tournament victories and became celebrated in the media. |
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Arnold Palmer
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William Durbin |
A biography of one of the best-known golfers in the country, whose loyal fans are called "Arnie's Army." |
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Blackwater Ben
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William Durbin |
Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook's helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the… |
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The darkest evening
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William Durbin |
In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of … |
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The journal of Otto Peltonen
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William Durbin |
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight… |
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Wintering
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William Durbin |
Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of "The Broken Blade", spends a winter with the North West Company in French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winte… |
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El Lector
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William Durbin |
Thirteen-year-old Bella wants to be a lector just like her grandfather. All day long he sits on a special platform in the cigar factory in Ybor City, Florida, reading books, newspapers, and current e… |
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