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“albert lorenz”

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  • The Exceptionally, Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School

    by Albert Lorenz ...
    Award-winning and bestselling illustrator Albert Lorenz's picture book The Exceptionally, Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School is the funny story of one boy's creative solution to being nervous attending a new school."Often hilarious . . . A dizzying amount of text and art on each spread—no shortage of fodder for readers whose tastes gravitate toward the strange and surreal." — Publishers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The True Story Behind Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

    by Jennifer Armstrong ...
    Illustrated by Albert Lorenz ...
    Get the behind-the-scenes scoop on President Lincoln’s most famous speech, still resonant 150 years later.In 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most important speeches in the history of the United States—the Gettysburg Address. It wasn’t even much a speech, really. Just a few remarks. Not meant to be remembered.Yet 150 years later, those few remarks have been remembered. How come? What was the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Words Set Me Free

    The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (with audio recording)

    by Lesa Cline-Ransome ...
    Illustrated by James E. Ransome ...
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  • The Underground Railroad

    by Raymond Bial ...
    By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" ... Read more

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    The Story Behind an American Friendship

    by Russell Freedman ...
    From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self-taught, both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy, both men born poor who by their own efforts reached positions of power and ... Read more

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  • Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War

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    by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier ...
    Series Book 2000 - The Drama of American History Series
    History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and ... Read more

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  • The Civil War

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    Slavery or freedom? The question of whether to make the United States a slave country or to make all people free was the question that pitted the states against each other in a brutal battle. In The Civil War: The Struggle that Divided America, readers ages 12-15 explore this conflict through the eyes and ears of the men and women who were touched by the clash that left more than 700,000 soldiers ... Read more

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