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WHO WAS BETSY ROSS?
Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That’s up…
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- 978-0-448-48243-9
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- 105 p ; 19 cm
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- 920 BUC w c.1 2025020007
WHO WAS ROSA PARKS?
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” This biography has black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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- 978-0-448-45442-9
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- 105 p ; 19 cm
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- 920 NCD w c.1 2025020004
MAGIC TREE HOUSE: #18 BUFFALO BEFORE BREAKFAST
Hello, buffalo! That's what Jack and Annie say when the Magic Tree House whisks them and Teddy, the enchanted dog, back almost 200 years to the Great Plains. There they meet a Lakota boy who shows them how to hunt buffalo. But something goes wrong! Now they need to stop a thousand buffalo from stampeding!
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- 978-0-679-89064-5
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- 72 p. ; 19 cm
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- Magic Tree House
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- 823 OSB m c.1 2024060018
HUSH
Having been forced to move with her family to a new town and live under new identities, Evie Thomas no longer has her community, best friend, or grandmother around and finds her world an unbearably lonely and confusing place as even her own family changes before her eyes.
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- 0-439-56683-5
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- 180 p ; 19 cm
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- 823 WOO h c.1 2025010118
STEP INTO READING 4: ESCAPE NORTH: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN
An easy-to-read, page-turning account of Harriet Tubman's life--from her childhood in slavery to her years as a conductor on the Underground Railroad to her later work as a suffragette and as a spy in the Civil War. This remarkable true story brings to life one of America's greatest female role models.
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- 978-0-375-80154-9
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- 920 KUL s c1 2023010056
STEP INTO READING STEP 3: PAUL BUNYAN (MY STORY)
WHOOOOOEEEEE! THAT PAUL Bunyan sure knows how to tell a story. The mammouth, mythic lumberjack tells the tallest tales about growing up, making friends, and working in the great North Woods as the biggest, best, and strongest lumberjack the world has ever seen. Told in simple, unaffected first-person narrative, this Step 3 reader is the perfect way to introduce young readers to tall tales.
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- 978-0-375-84688-5
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- 48 p ; 23 cm
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- 823 HAR s c.1 2024110189
READY TO READ LEVEL 3: FROM SALVE TO SOLDIER (BASED ON A TRUE CIVIL WAR STORY)
Johnny loves his uncle and his master's mule, but he hates being a slave. So when he's asked to join the Union army, he accepts. Being a soldier is hard work, and Johnny wonders if he made the right choice. But when the army needs him, Johnny knows it's up to him to come to the rescue!
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- 978-0-689-83966-5
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- 44 p ; 23 cm
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- 823 HOP r c.1 2024110188
READY TO READ LEVEL 3 STORIES OF FAMOUS AMERICANS: ABIGAIL ADAMS (FIRST LADY …
A fascinating portrait of Abigail Adams, the supportive wife of president John Adams, details the life of this extraordinary woman who used her love for learning, for her family, and for her country to shape the early history of the United States. Simultaneous.
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- 978-0-689-87032-3
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- 48 p ; 23 cm
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- 920 IAK r c.1 2024110187
GRAPHIC NOVELS: NELLIE IN THE NEWS
Rosie Freedman is a gifted young African-American girl who drops out of school when her family falls on hard times. It is only when she meets Nellie Bly, a journalist on an amazing mission, that Rosie starts to dream again...
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- 978-1-55448-747-9
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- 48 p ; 26 cm
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- 741.5 KEL g c.1 2024110025
WHO WAS HARRIET TUBMAN?
Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad which she travelled by herself north to Philadelphia. Throughout her long life (she died at the age of ninety-two) and long after the Civil War brought an end…
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- 0-448-42889-X
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- 106 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 973 MCD w c.1 201860308
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