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Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity, and wisdom. Rather than the dry recitation of events so common in school textbooks, van Loon's witty, amiable tone animates the story of human history as a grand and perpetually unfolding adventure. Beginning with the origins of human life and sweeping forward to illuminate all of history, van...
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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1933.
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The Trumpeter of Krakow is a 1928 young adult historical novel by Eric P. Kelly. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1929. Centered on the historical fire that burned much of Kraków in 1462, The Trumpeter of Krakow tells the fictional story of the family of Joseph Charnetski, a Polish noble family from Kresy (modern day Ukraine), who fled to Kraków, Poland, in 1461 after their home is burned to the ground...
8) Dobry
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A Bulgarian peasant boy who is to inherit his mother's land and take his grandfather's place as a farmer has other plans. He wanted to be a sculptor. His grandfather an artist himself sympathizes with him and gradually wins his mother's consent in letting Dobry go to art school in Sofia.
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
11) Thimble summer
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Unusual things begin to happen when a young girl finds a silver thimble doing the things called for by the farm, full of the sensory pleasures of summer on a farm in southern Wisconsin.
12) Daniel Boone
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Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1939]
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English
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Tells the story of the life of the rugged frontiersman and pioneer leader who helped settle Kentucky.
13) Call it courage
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Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. --
15) Adam of the road
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Viking Press
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1942.
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English
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In thirteenth-century England an eleven-year-old boy roams the countryside as he searches for his father and his stolen dog.
16) Johnny Tremain
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After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
17) Strawberry girl
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In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.
19) Miss Hickory
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Viking Press
Pub. Date
1946.
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English
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Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.