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9780147515674 | Dgs edition (Puffin, June 2, 2015), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: At seventeen, Dorothea Lange knew she would be a photographer--even though she had never taken a picture.
A collection of speeches and editorials chronicles the effects of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, and relates the politics of the Civil War
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9780152294922 | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of speeches and editorials chronicles the effects of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, and relates the politics of the Civil War
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9780152064976 | Sandpiper, September 1, 2010, cover price $7.99
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9780152064365, titled "Lincoln in His Own Words" | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 2009), cover price $9.99
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9780152454371 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Combines background commentary with quotes from Lincoln's letters, speeches, and public papers to provide a personal view of his life, thoughts, and actions.
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9781439592847, titled "Lincoln in His Own Words" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $18.99
Product Description: From the very first passenger train to roll down the tracks in 1825 to the advent of todayâs high-speed trains, the railroad has been and is still one of the most vital forces in civilization. Focusing on American railroad history but touching on other countries, award-winning author Milton Meltzer shows how something as ubiquitous as the railroad is, in fact, a force that changed the world...read more
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9780375815638, titled "Hear That Train Whistle Blow: How the Railroad Changed the World" | Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
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9780375829222 | Reprint edition (Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 2005), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
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9780375915635 | Random House Childrens Books, October 26, 2004, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
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9781439575598 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 19, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: From the very first passenger train to roll down the tracks in 1825 to the advent of todayâs high-speed trains, the railroad has been and is still one of the most vital forces in civilization.
9781417689521, titled "Hear That Train Whistle Blow! How the Railroad Changed the World" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
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9780761435853 | Benchmark Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $6.99
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9780761415367 | Benchmark Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $42.79 | About this edition: Explains the mechanics of the first printing press, invented in Germany by Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, and describes the press's revolutionary impact on the world.
Explains the importance of cotton and the mechanics of the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1792, and describes how this invention enabled the expansion of the American slave trade.
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9780761435846 | Benchmark Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $6.99
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9780761415374 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, June 1, 2003, cover price $42.79 | About this edition: Explains the importance of cotton and the mechanics of the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1792, and describes how this invention enabled the expansion of the American slave trade.
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9780152055189 | Harcourt Childrens Books, January 1, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days.
9780152006174 | Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days
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9780152055240 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 2006, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days.
9780152928469 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1990, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days
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9780606048361 | Demco Media, September 1, 1990, cover price $11.47 | About this edition: A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days
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9781439517437 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this classic novel, Josh, a teenage logger on the Ohio River, discovers his life's true mission as an abolitionist after his first encounter with a runaway slave.
9780613143875 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days
Miscellaneous:
9781436229630 | Viking Childrens Books, January 10, 2008, cover price $13.99
Hardcover:
9780670061396 | Viking Childrens Books, January 10, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American author known for his collection of powerful novels about the lives of working people struggling to survive in the early 1900s, and especially for 'The Grapes of Wrath.
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9780822576044 | Twenty First Century Books, December 15, 2007, cover price $33.32
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9780823419661 | Holiday House, October 30, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Provides early readers with an informative review of the life, inspirations, and celebrated accomplishments of this genius, scientist, teacher, peace activist, and Nobel Prize winner.
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9780618874453 | Clarion Books, October 15, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer.
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9780822558934 | Twenty First Century Books, December 22, 2006, cover price $33.32 | About this edition: Profiles the solitary student of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was well-known as a naturalist in his own time but who became posthumously famous for his writings.
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9780761334590 | Twenty First Century Books, August 1, 2006, cover price $33.32 | About this edition: Learn about the life of the famous American author.
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9780761329497 | Twenty First Century Books, December 15, 2005, cover price $33.32 | About this edition: Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
Reinforced:
9780606345613 | Demco Media, October 1, 2005, cover price $18.83
Describes the life of Herman Melville, focusing on how his adventures shaped his outlook and his writing.
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9780761327493 | Twenty First Century Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $33.32 | About this edition: Describes the life of Herman Melville, focusing on how his adventures shaped his outlook and his writing.
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9781566962926 | Unbnd edition (Jackdaw Pubns, January 1, 2005), cover price $76.67
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9780761416074 | Benchmark Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $34.21 | About this edition: Introduces the life of the explorer who was sent to Peru in the sixteenth century by the king of Spain to conquer the Incas and claim their land and wealth for the Spanish crown.
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9780531122570 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 2004, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: A nonfiction author explores his personal evolution as an author, from his early inspirations to his life as a full-time writer, offering his own firsthand experiences during the Depression, World War II, and other historic eras.
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9780761415350 | Cavendish Square, June 30, 2004, cover price $213.93
Hardcover:
9781561643059 | Pineapple Pr Inc, February 1, 2004, cover price $16.95
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9780525456438 | Dutton Childrens Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: From the fierce battle tactics of the courageous Boudicca to the reforming spirit of Catherine the Great, this collection of ten essays, covering a two-thousand-year span of reigns, outlines the lives of ten women who ruled in their own right
Paperback:
9780525471585 | Reprint edition (Dutton Childrens Books, December 1, 2003), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From the fierce battle tactics of the courageous Boudicca to the reforming spirit of Catherine the Great, this collection of ten essays, covering a two-thousand-year span of reigns, outlines the lives of ten women who ruled in their own right.
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9780613725811 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From the fierce battle tactics of the courageous Boudicca to the reforming spirit of Catherine the Great, this collection of ten essays, covering a two-thousand-year span of reigns, outlines the lives of ten women who ruled in their own right.
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9780761329107 | Twenty First Century Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $33.32 | About this edition: Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.
Poems by such authors as Stephen Vincent Benet, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay address major events in American history, including the Westward movement, slavery, industrialization, and war.
Hardcover:
9789990212457 | Boyds Mills Pr, June 30, 2003, cover price $0.02
School and Library:
9781590780213 | Wordsong, June 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Poems by such authors as Stephen Vincent Benet, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Edna St.
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