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Product Description: What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make? For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century―to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type...read more

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9781596435421 | Flash Point, September 18, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds?

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Product Description: For two years Douglas Hergert has been writing a thousand-word anecdotal human-interest column for the Rossmoor News. Rossmoor, an adult community located about 30 minutes east by car from San Francisco, has a population of perhaps 10,000 residents...read more

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9781463709235 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 16, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: For two years Douglas Hergert has been writing a thousand-word anecdotal human-interest column for the Rossmoor News.

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9780547243078 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 25, 2010), cover price $17.99

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9780155225985, titled "Encounters in Experimental Chemistry" | 2 edition (Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1985), cover price $26.95 | also contains Encounters in Experimental Chemistry

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9781596434165 | Roaring Brook, April 27, 2010, cover price $17.99

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Product Description: It's time to color outside the lines.Max's teacher wants the class to color-in pictures for Mother's Day presents, but Max knows that his mother would not want a dumb flower picture drawn by someone else. Determined to express his creativity, Max runs off to draw his own picture...read more
By James Rumford (illustrator)

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9781580891561 | New edition (Charlesbridge Pub Inc, July 1, 2009), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: It's time to color outside the lines.

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Product Description: Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world.The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin.This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before—at the birth of Confucius...read more

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9780618717200 | Houghton Mifflin, September 22, 2008, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world.

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As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy uses the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.

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9781596432765 | Roaring Brook, March 18, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy uses the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.

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A powerful retelling of Britain's oldest epic vividly brings to life the warrior named Beowulf who defeated the ogre Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon that threatened his kingdom. 25,000 first printing.

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9780618756377 | Houghton Mifflin, August 6, 2007, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.

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Believing that his impressive ten-gallon hat provides him with an extra level of authority in his Wild West town of Sunshine, Sheriff John makes certain to always keep his hat very nearby in order to keep the criminals away.

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9780375837821 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 27, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.

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9780375937828 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 27, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.

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Captured by the great sultan of Samarkand in the year 751, a time of war between the Chinese and the Arabs, a Chinese grandfather and his grandson bargain for their freedom by agreeing to teach the Arabs the art of making paper. Reprint.

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9780395765050 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A Chinese grandfather and his grandson who are captured by the Arab army barter for their freedom by demonstrating the art of papermaking

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9780618689514 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 26, 2006), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A Chinese grandfather and his grandson who are captured by the Arab army barter for their freedom by demonstrating the art of papermaking

The story of Sequoyah and his successful effort to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians is rendered into a poem celebrating literacy and the accomplishments of the Cherokee Nation.

Miscellaneous:

9780547528724 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2004, cover price $16.00

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9780618369478 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2004, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The story of Sequoyah and his successful effort to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians is rendered into a poem celebrating literacy and the accomplishments of the Cherokee Nation.

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After seeing a wounded creature on the beach, an animal like no one, Manu decides to nurse it back to health and becomes its valuable friend, one that will later return the favor during dangerous times, in a tale about the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands.

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9780618356119 | Houghton Mifflin, May 25, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Manu, one of five brothers who are the first humans to set foot on Hawaii, is unhappy until he saves the life of a strange creature he calls Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves, and they become fast friends.

Miscellaneous:

9780547528649 | Houghton Mifflin, September 22, 2003, cover price $16.00

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While on an expedition to find out where the world ends, Calabash Cat, a West African cat, journeys through deserts, grasslands, oceans, and a jungle during his determined pursuit.

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9780618224234 | Houghton Mifflin, September 22, 2003, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A Calabash Cat, living in Africa, sets off to see where the world ends.

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A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

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9780618333455 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 23, 2003), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

Miscellaneous:

9780547530741 | Houghton Mifflin, June 23, 2003, cover price $6.95

Reinforced:

9780606276733 | Demco Media, May 1, 2003, cover price $15.80 | About this edition: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

Prebinding:

9781439527290 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $15.95
9780613608350 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

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A fable about a group of animals which strives to bring the perfect present to the Indian raja-king's birthday party, and discusses how the numerals we use originated in India.

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9780618309153 | Houghton Mifflin, May 19, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A fable about a group of animals which strives to bring the perfect present to the Indian raja-king's birthday party, and discusses how the numerals we use originated in India.

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An alphabet book relates the legend of Cadmus, the Phoenician hero who, according to the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, brought the alphabet to Greece and slew a dragon there.

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9780618221400 | Houghton Mifflin, September 30, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An alphabet book which relates the legend of Cadmus, the Phoenician hero who brought the alphabet to Greece and slew a dragon there.

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Tells of the true adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five thousand mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco. 12,500 first printing.

Miscellaneous:

9780547562568, titled "Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354" | Houghton Mifflin, September 24, 2001, cover price $7.99 | also contains Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354

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9780618083664 | Houghton Mifflin, September 24, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Relates the adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five-thousand-mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco.

Filled with striking illustrations, a fascinating exploration into the life of Jean-Francois Champollion, the extraordinary man who deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, reveals his courage and determination to fulfill his dreams.

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9780395979341 | Houghton Mifflin, April 24, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

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Product Description: When news reaches a Hawaiian grandmother that Hawaii has been annexed by the United States in July 1898, she sets to work on a quilt to teach her grandchildren one of life's important lessons: always remember who you are.

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9781891839009 | Manoa Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: When news reaches a Hawaiian grandmother that Hawaii has been annexed by the United States in July 1898, she sets to work on a quilt to teach her grandchildren one of life's important lessons: always remember who you are.

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As his older brothers prepare for their great journey to a distant island, little Manu hides himself in their canoe, but when Manu is discovered, it is too late to turn around, and Manu must now help navigate the canoe to safety.

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9780395851593 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Five brothers, each with a special skill, sail across the vast Pacific Ocean to the islands now known as Hawaii

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