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Product Description: This collection features 96 books to give primary students varied book choices in a wide range of reading levels. Many of the books by well-known author, poet, and former first grade teacher Margaret Hillert. The series is divided in to four child-centered collections...read more

Paperback:

9780813655802 | Modern Curriculum Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This collection features 96 books to give primary students varied book choices in a wide range of reading levels.

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Product Description: Book by Passport Books

Hardcover:

9780844272054 | Passport Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Passport Books

Traces the history of China from ancient times to the 1980s and describes the art, culture, and daily life of the country

School and Library:

9780516027814, titled "People's Republic of China" | Childrens Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $32.00 | also contains Journal | About this edition: An overview of China's history and life, especially since, under the Chinese Communist party, that country became the People's Republic of China in 1949.

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Provides a close-up look at the history, culture, people, society, and government of China prior to the Communist revolution

Library:

9780516027548 | Childrens Pr, November 1, 1983, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Presents the history until 1949 of the country with the oldest continuing history of any nation.

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Product Description: A short poem emphasizing the concept of opposites.

Paperback:

9780516436173 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 1983, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A short poem emphasizing the concept of opposites.

Library:

9780516036175, titled "Stop-Go, Fast-Slow" | Childrens Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: A short poem emphasizing the concept of opposites.

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Text and illustrations introduce homophones, words that sound the same but have different meanings and often, different spellings.

Paperback:

9780516420318 | Childrens Pr, June 1, 1982, cover price $3.50 | also contains The Wedding | About this edition: Humorous drawings portray a variety of words, which have the same sounds, but different meanings

Library:

9780516020310 | Childrens Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $14.60 | About this edition: Humorous drawings portray a variety of words, which have the same sounds, but different meanings

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Turtle challenges her boastful friend Rabbit to a race along First Street in this modern adaptation of the well-known fable.

Hardcover:

9780813650869 | Modern Curriculum Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: The traditional tortoise and hare story is given a modern interpretation: Turtle and Rabbit are two female friends living in an urban environment who race each other to First Street when one challenges the other

Paperback:

9780813655864 | Modern Curriculum Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The traditional tortoise and hare story is given a modern interpretation: Turtle and Rabbit are two female friends living in an urban environment who race each other to First Street when one challenges the other

When the magic hen and the magic cloth that his aunt gave him for his birthday are stolen by an innkeeper, a determined young boy must use his aunt's third gift, a magic stick, to retrieve them

Hardcover:

9780813650852 | Modern Curriculum Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: Through negligence a boy loses the magic hen and tablecloth he is given to help his poor mother, but he is given a third chance when presented with a magic stick.

Paperback:

9780813655857 | Modern Curriculum Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Through negligence a boy loses the magic hen and tablecloth he is given to help his poor mother, but he is given a third chance when presented with a magic stick.

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Retells the tale of two rascals who sell a vain Emperor an invisible suit of clothes.

Hardcover:

9780813650845 | Modern Curriculum Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: Retells in simple words the tale about the vain emperor who believes that he is wearing wonderful new clothes that fools cannot see

Paperback:

9780813655840 | Modern Curriculum Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: Retells in simple words the tale about the vain emperor who believes that he is wearing wonderful new clothes that fools cannot see

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When a fisherman saves the life of a fish capable of granting his wishes, his greedy wife demands too much and must learn when to stop

Hardcover:

9780813650838 | Modern Curriculum Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: Retells the fate of the fisherman's greedy wife who was never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

Paperback:

9780813655833 | Modern Curriculum Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: Retells the fate of the fisherman's greedy wife who was never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

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A biographical account of the determined marathon swimmer focuses on a forty-one hour attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida

Library:

9780817215576 | Heinemann/Raintree, January 1, 1980, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A biographical account of the American marathon swimmer with emphasis on the 41 hours she spent in the ocean in an attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida.

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Presents brief career biographies of women prominent in the field of science, including Florence Sabin, Chien Shiung Wu, Margaret Mead, and Alice Hamilton.

Library:

9780817213794 | Heinemann/Raintree, December 1, 1979, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Briefly profiles the careers of six women influential in modern science: astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, biologist Rachel Carson, anthropologist Margaret Mead, scientist Florence Sabin, and physicist Chien Shung Wu

Presents brief biographies of prominent women, including Margaret Bourke-White, Diana Nyad, Janet Guthrie, and Kitty O'Neill.

Library:

9780817213756 | Heinemann/Raintree, December 1, 1979, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Capsule biographies of six daring and adventurous women include profiles of war correspondent Margaret BourkeWhite, race driver Janet Guthrie, swimmer Diana Nyad, and stunt woman Kitty O'Neil

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An easy-to-read cartoon rendition of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.'

Hardcover:

9780813650814 | Modern Curriculum Pr, September 1, 1978, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: A retelling of the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs features comic-book-style illustrations

Paperback:

9780813655819 | Modern Curriculum Pr, November 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs features comic-book-style illustrations

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In an updated version of The Frog Prince a foolish, scheming princess gets exactly what she deserves

Hardcover:

9780813650821 | Modern Curriculum Pr, September 1, 1978, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: An easy-to-read cartoon rendition of 'The Frog Prince' which ends with a new twist.

Paperback:

9780813655826 | Modern Curriculum Pr, October 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An easy-to-read cartoon rendition of 'The Frog Prince' which ends with a new twist.

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Presents instructions for playing and scoring twenty games from eighteen different countries including Greece, Trinidad, Sweden, Mexico, and Australia

Library:

9780817211622 | Heinemann/Raintree, May 1, 1978, cover price $13.30 | About this edition: Instructions for playing 20 games from different countries around the world.

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