The Usborne Book of World History

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  Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)

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  The Aesop for Children

  According to Herodotus, Aesop was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th century B.C. His moral animal fables have delighted young and old for centuries. This fabulous full-color edition of the classic…

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  A Child's History of the World

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  White Stallion of Lipizza

  The magnificent Lipizzan stallions of Vienna come to life as never before in this exciting story by award-winning author, Marguerite Henry.
  
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  With Two Hands: Stories of God at Work in Ethiopia (Hidden Heroes #1)

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  God's Smuggler

  As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler,…

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  The Twenty-One Balloons

  Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, ec…

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  The Little Riders

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  Captain Nobody

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  Window on the World: When We Pray God Works

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  About Average

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• 104 Poems of Whimsy and Wisdom to Delight Children of All Ages

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  Gooney Bird Greene

  Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.
  
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  Eyewonder: Weather: Open Your Eyes to a World of Discovery

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  The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

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  One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that ev…

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  The Hundred Dresses

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  The Sign of the Beaver

  Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief's grandson, h…

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  Time Traveler

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  Year of Impossible Goodbyes

  It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea.  Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to…

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