An illustrated comparison of George Washington and King George III in the years leading up to and including the American Revolution, with a particularly balanced presentation of both the British and the American points of view.
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A young orphaned English girl confined to a sanatorium in the countryside sees winged horses through the mirrors. She is called on to help save the animals during World War II.
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A 12 yo British boy is enlisted as a page for Captain John Smith and joins the voyage to settle Jamestown, Virginia. The sequel is Poison in the Colony.
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12 yo son of an English lord grows up to join King Richard’s crusade in the Holy Land, along with his father and brother and a very special war horse. First in a trilogy
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7 yo African girl is kidnapped and sold into slavery. She is encouraged by her Boston owners to become literate and becomes the first published African American woman.
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Picture book biography of Allan Pinkerton, the first detective at the Chicago Police Department, featuring an episode of his preventing an early assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln during his inaugural train ride from Springfield, IL to Washington DC.
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14 yo daughter of a lord rebels against her father’s plans for her marriage in Medieval England.
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An English boy searches for his stolen dog through the English countryside in medieval times.
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Picture book biography in verse of life of Henry “Box” Brown, an African American slave who mailed himself to freedom. With back matter.
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