Robert Lawson
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Peter Pepperell abruptly stopped growing at the age of 7, after which he started getting smaller. But while his body became tinier, his mind got bigger and so did his sense of adventure. When he learns of an overseas madman who's threatening the world with a compact but powerfully destructive weapon, the 4-inch-high boy climbs on the back of a friendly seagull and heads for Europe to disarm the evil scientist - and to do a little sightseeing along...
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The master illustrator of Mr. Popper's Penguins and The Story of Ferdinand brings new life to a bevy of traditional tales. More than 40 of the artist's enchanting pen-and-ink drawings grace 13 fairy tales and poems of wizards, dragons, and princes in disguise by Padraic Colum, Beatrice Curtis Brown, Eunice Tietjens, and other distinguished authors.
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Magic and miracles! After a slow start in living life, I began to experience more than twenty different kinds of delightful happenings that Id like to share with you. Ive been dissatisfied with what Ive encountered in Christian churches of various denominations. After reading The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age, by Levi Downing, as well as Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch, I did gain some clarity that I hope to...
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President Lincoln's final resting place is more than just a cemetery. Oak Ridge is the second most visited cemetery in the United States, only Arlington has more visitors each year. It is a place of histories and stories. It is the final resting place of politicians, generals, and heroes. Even some of the private citizens have some interesting stories.
This work will take you from the Black Hawk War to the corruption of some early governors. In addition,...
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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism - while drinking a lot of beer.
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Here, straight from the horse's mouth is the real story of Paul Revere's midnight ride. Told by Scheherezade, the brave, beautiful mare who carried Mr. Revere that fateful night, this charming tale gives children a delightfully different perspective on the American Revolution.
10) Adam of the road
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©1970, ©1942.
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The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
11) Rabbit Hill
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New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
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This book contains a panacea of ideas relevant to engage both young and adult learners in a classroom, workshop or course setting. Teaching strategies, classroom management strategies and motivational empowerment tools are all shared in one book designed to captivate the reader, inform the reader and suggest creative ways to enable participants not only to enjoy the subject matter but to utilize what they learn to specifically apply it to their own...
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A young boy in Southern California meets life head-on during the fifties and sixties. Robert Lawson was the second child out of six siblings. A beautiful mother and inventive dad lead their children on a wild journey. You'll meet animals, contraptions, wild imaginations and more until life comes to a standstill, and all hope seems to vanish.
A wonderful tale of hopes crashed, and plans destroyed. Somewhat like sticking six children in the middle...
18) The great wheel
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2004.
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Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
20) Wee Gillis
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[2006], 1938.
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Wee Gillis can not decide whether he wants to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.
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