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Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers 60 reviews Ralph Moody
Bison Books, 1991
Speechless
+ Great book for boys AND girls and grown-ups, too! + Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers + An Inspiring Book For Young and Old + A wonderful biography
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Children of the Wild West 1 review Russell Freedman
Sandpiper, 1990
17 year olds review of WILD WILD WEST!
Children of the Wild West follows the daily lives of children on the trails of the old west. From migrating to building, this book covers everything you might want to know about children in the west.
In this book several stories are created to give a feel for what it was like to live as a child ...
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The Timetables of American History 3 reviews Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Touchstone, 2001
The Timetables of American History, updated edition
+ great book
A wonderfully concise look at American History in respect to other happenings around the globe. I read this book at our local library and was so impressed with it that I decided to order it from Amazon.com!
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A Museum of Early American Tools 7 reviews Eric Sloane
Dover Publications, 2008
Great
+ The Way Things Used to Be + An Historical lassic + Very informative + Great Art
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You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer 13 reviews Shana Corey
Scholastic Press, 2000
Great book for young girls
+ Bravo to Amelia Bloomer and other's like her! + In the classroom. + You Forgot Your Skirt Amelia Bloomer + Skirts are for women and pants are for men....Always
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If You Lived In Colonial Times (If You.) 8 reviews Ann Mcgovern
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1992
Excellent!
+ Wonderful For Kids + Lots of good informationabout Colonial Times. + Life in colonial New England from the perspective of a child + One of my favorite books growing up!
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Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana) 10 reviews Eric Sloane
Dover Publications, 2004
Not really a diary
+ fun to read + DEAB teaches us + So... what happened to Noah Blake and Sarah Trowbridge?
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A History of US: 11-Volume Set (A History of Us) 7 reviews Joy Hakim
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Getting the Real Story
+ Very informative + Great for young history students + Top Notch + wonderful read
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars 37 reviews Andrew Carroll
Scribner, 2001
An incredibly profound book!
+ War Letters - Good Read ... + A wonderful, different type of war book, but . . .
This book is a great read. It is refeshing to be able to read words, thoughts and dreams from people as they perform such honorable duty overseas. This book is powerful and should be required reading for all, especially Americans.
Some anti-war activist may think it is "pro-war" but it isn't ...
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A First Book in American History 7 reviews Edward Eggleston
Lost Classics Book Co., 2001
Our 9 year son old loved this
+ Great book! + Awesome as homeschoolers backbone for US history + Refreshing Historical Perspective
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) 146 reviews Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
A towering, very important American classic
+ Skeleton in the Closet + My perspective on Uncle Tom's Cabin + Incredible Classic Still Relevant Today
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Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? 4 reviews Jean Fritz
Putnam Juvenile, 1997
A Lucky Man
+ A Fun Book to Stimulate Interest in History + Very informative with interesting illustrations
Columbus was a lucky man (blessed, he would say). He had to be. Who else could have so much go so wrong and still become famous for the one big thing he did by mistake: discover America...if he did that. Anyway, he had a lot of adventure (or misadventure), and Jean Fritz tells about it and ...
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Heroines of History: Heroines of the American Revolution, America's Founding Mothers 1 review Diane Silcox-Jarrett
Scholastic Inc, 2000
The Daughters of the American Revolution endorse this book!
I first heard of this excellent book when I saw it endorsed in the Daughters of the American Revolution magazine. They were selling it as "24 TRUE STORIES of BRAVE and DARING WOMEN from the AMERICAN REVOLUTION. These American founding mothers are towering models of courage and patriotism". They ...
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth 13 reviews Kathryn Lasky
Little, Brown Young Readers, 1994
Have genius, will measure!
+ Fascinating piece of science in history with one man and one book + Good Biography and Scienctific Discussion + One of the most treasured books in my library!
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Louisa May and Mr. Thoreau's Flute 2 reviews Julie Dunlap, Marybeth Lorbiecki
Dial, 2002
Inspiring for young creatives
+ FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN KINDRED SOULS
The other evening I descended my stairs to find my husband snuggled on the couch with a picture book and my 3 year old son, reading. This is not unusual. What was unusual was that my thirteen year old daughter sat with them listening intently as well. The book, not surprisingly, was Louisa May and ...
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Little House on the Prairie Boxed Set ((9 Books) Little House On the Prairie; Farmer Boy; On the Banks of ... 2 reviews Laura Ingalls Wilder
Scholastic, 1994
very pleased with my little house books
+ Little House books
I purchased 9 Little House of the Prairie books, they where in very good condition and arrived in my house in a very short period of time, I am very happy with my purchase.
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Ship (Trumpet Club Special Edition) David Macauley
The Trumpet Club, Inc, 1995
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Things We Couldn't Say 20 reviews Diet Eman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999
A Christian at War
+ Amazing! + An account of valour + Excellent + Harrowing experience
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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky 2 reviews Kathi Appelt, Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer
HarperCollins, 2001
Wish There Was More
+ Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky
This is the kind of book we all should read, regardless of age. It is well researched, well annotated and well written. I bought it for my wife, a reading specialist, for Easter, and wound up reading it before she got her hands on it. It would be great to have an older version, filled with more ...
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How We Crossed The West: The Adventures Of Lewis And Clark 9 reviews Rosalyn Schanzer
National Geographic Children's Books, 2002
So much more than a picture book!
+ Fast moving and full of interesting information + Lots of info and easy to read + A Great American Tale + Lovely Illustrations
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