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  • Young Zorro

    The Iron Brand

    by Diego Vega ...
    Sandwiched between the ocean and the mountains surrounding the Pueblo de Los Angeles, wealthy Spanish caballeros live side by side with Native Americans. One boy with both Spanish and Indian blood belongs to both worlds. He is Diego de la Vega, who will one day wear the mask of Zorro.As a boy Diego is more concerned with riding horses and making mischief with his best friend, Bernardo, than about ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young Zorro

    by Diego Vega, Jan Adkins ...
    Sandwiched between the ocean and the mountains surrounding the Pueblo de Los Angeles, wealthy Spanish caballeros live side by side with Native Americans. One boy with both Spanish and Indian blood belongs to both worlds. He is Diego de la Vega, who will one day wear the mask of Zorro.As a boy Diego is more concerned with riding horses and making mischief with his best friend, Bernardo, than about ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • John Adams

    Young Revolutionary

    by Jan Adkins ...
    Illustrated by Meryl Henderson ...
    Series series Childhood of Famous Americans
    Dear Reader:The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and experiences that influenced the person¹s development. History is fleshed out with fictionalized details, and conversations have been added to make the stories come alive to today¹s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    A Twentieth-Century Life

    by Jan Adkins ...
    Series series Up Close
    **Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright in this captivating Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.“Entertaining and educational.”—School Library Journal**Genius, poseur, egomaniac, innovator, sly rascal—in the ninety-three years of his stormy life, Frank Lloyd Wright was all of these. He was a ladies’ man, a clotheshorse, a deadbeat, and, with ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • What If You Met a Cowboy?

    by Jan Adkins ...
    Illustrated by Jan Adkins ...
    You know all about cowboys, right? They're the good guys in the white hats, carrying six-shooters and wearing fancy boots.Well, no. Cowboys weren't like that at all. Come inside and meet Jake Peavy. He's the real deal. Jake's a crackerjack cattle herder but he wears a grubby hat and he limps from when that horse fell on him. He's small, wiry, has bad teeth, and it's been a while since he washed. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • What If You Met a Knight?

    by Jan Adkins ...
    Illustrated by Jan Adkins ...
    Jan Adkins What If You Met a Knight, tells of the myths and preconceptions about the lives of knights.Forget jousts and quests and dragons—a real knight had real work to do, lots of mouths to feed, and trouble could ride over the hill at any moment. Castles were dark, armor was uncomfortable, and jousts and tournaments (not to mention real battles) were dangerous—and expensive.As in the popular ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bertha Takes a Drive

    How the Benz Automobile Changed the World

    by Jan Adkins ...
    Illustrated by Jan Adkins ...
    It's 1888 and Bertha Benz's husband, Karl, has invented the prototype Benz motorwagen. But the German government declares the vehicle illegal, and the church calls it the devil's work. Unbeknownst to her husband, Bertha steals away with her two sons and drives nearly one hundred miles to prove just how amazing the motorwagen is. Bertha's mechanical savvy gets the boys to Grandma's house safely, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?

    by Ellen Labrecque, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Gregory Copeland ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime. These included private homes – such as the stunning Fallingwater, churches, temples, a ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Daughters of the Sea #3: Lucy

    by Kathryn Lasky ...
    Series Book 3 - Daughters Of The Sea
    A choice between love and survival . . . Lucy's family is excited to spend the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her minister father is pleased to preside over such a prestigious congregation, and his social-climbing wife is ecstatic at the chance to find a rich husband for her daughter. Yet Lucy wants nothing to do with the Bar Harbor social scene; she's simply excited to spend the summer by the sea, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • In the Heart of the Sea (Young Readers Edition)

    The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning In the Heart of the Sea, now a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, adapted by the author for young readers.On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Elijah of Buxton

    by Christopher Paul Curtis ...
    Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor, unique narrative voice, and new cover art--now in paperback! Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Little House 5-Book Collection

    Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake

    by Laura Ingalls Wilder ...
    Illustrated by Garth Williams ...
    Series series Little House
    This collection of the first five books in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices.This collection includes Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, and By the Shores of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD