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The author takes readers on a fascinating journey back to A.D. 100, where a bolt of sky blue silk is carried by successive caravans from China to Rome along the ancient Silk Road. The narrators include a brave, young caravan leader from China; a merchant and his preteen son from Turkmenistan; a gifted camel guide from the Middle East; a family of women from Egypt; and citizens in Rome.
2) Come Morning
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Twelve-year-old Freedman and his father Nehemiah, a freed slave, make their living on a farm in Delaware during the 1850's. When Nehemiah is taken prisoner by slave-hunters in the Deep South, Freedman gets his chance to become part of the Underground Railroad. This meticulously researched novel treats an often overlooked aspect of African-American history: freed slaves' participation in the Underground Railroad.
3) The Girl-Son
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"What a pity she isn't a boy!" sighed Induk Pahk's father when he saw his new baby daughter. "Born under the powerful signs of the dragon and the tiger, a boy could have changed the world!" Set in Korea, The Girl-Son is the true story of one girl's courage and determination to go against tradition in order to obtain an education and to create equal educational opportunities for all children in her country. Her story will inspire young readers today...
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It is the mid-1800's and Manjiro, a young fisherman, is shipwrecked far off the coast of his native Japan. At this time in history, Japan is an isolated country that allows its citizens no contact with the rest of the world. Foreigners are called "barbarians"-and none are more despised than Americans. But when Manjiro and his fishing companions are rescued by an American ship, Manjiro makes some startling discoveries about the world of the barbarians-and...
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Annie Quinn knows that a new life in America is her only chance. In 1847, the only sure way to survive the potato famine is to leave Ireland. With her younger brother Thomas, twelve-year-old Annie must leave her mother and home behind. She'll join her big sister Bridget, a maid in a New York mansion. At least Annie has her father's fiddle to play. But Annie's fiddle is stolen by smooth-talker Finnbarr O'Halloran as soon as she steps foot in New York....
6) Firestorm
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Thirteen-year-old Maggie Grant and her family are about to face a terror like none they've ever experienced. Having recently moved to Hinckley, Minnesota, they are caught in the path of one of the deadliest forest fires in history.
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Adventures in time volume 1
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2018.
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A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson's Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim. It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain's novels, while they finally conclude he's a traveler from a future time. He agrees to accompany them as they prepare -- for howling adventures -- into Indian Territory. Their...
10) We Meet at Last
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Elaytay born on Cyterrious travels to other planets to help in many ways. This is a continuation of her adventures.
Come along and see where she goes next and have a chance to meet other strange peoples and see and sometime interact with some strange and some bizarre animals. See where she is headed next.
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Elaytay was a young space cadet when we first met her. We traveled along with her as she grew up. We have had a chance to meet all kinds of the strange beings and bizarre animals that she interacted with in the first two books.
We when she got back to Cyterrious this time, she finds that they have developed a way to time travel. So now we get to be observers on each trip. Each chapter is a totally different adventure in time and space.
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Beyond London's Baker Street is a world of shadows, a world of ancient secrets and elder beings that were old before Man first appeared. At times, those eldritch entities reach from the past into the present, looming over us like a shadow out of time. Few can counter the horror of their presence with cold logic, with nerves that will not snap, with the adaptive cunning needed to survive when reality seems subsumed by madness. Sherlock Holmes is such...
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Upon Sherlock Holmes' return to London after the Great Hiatus, he thwarted the murderous plans of Colonel Sebastian Moran, but what happened after that? Here, for the first time, learn what really drew Holmes back to London, the truth about the strange Vanishments and the East End Ghosts, and how the entirety of Time & Space was contained in a single night. In other stories, we learn exactly what Mrs Hudson's life was like with the most troublesome...
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