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TRAIN YOUR BRAIN FOR EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS Now more than ever, you need a competitive edge to succeed-no matter what your field or profession. This st...
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smolde...
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War...
A hair-cutting machine, a used gum receptacle, jumping shoes, and more of the strangest inventions ever! A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that tu...
A talking watch. An overcoat for two. A pair of pants for poodles. In his companion to Weird & Wacky Inventions, Jim Murphy shows kids some additional...
Tuberculosis and the Never-ending Search for a Cure
This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the ...
An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transc...
Jack London's adventure masterpiece is not only a vivid account of the Klondike gold rush and North American Indian life, but it is also an intriguing...
The Storm that Changed America
Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the event...
Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom
Enhanced with maps, photographs, and black-and-white illustrations, the story of the battle of Antietam Creek in Maryland in 1862 is described via fir...
The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them. H...
In the mid-1800s, with both her father and her uncle in jail on an assault charge, Maggie, her brother, and her ailing mother rush their barge along t...
When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectac...
“If you ever went to Catholic school, or never went to Catholic school, you need to read this funny, smart, kid-true book. It explains everything.�...
An incident in a park leads to an accidental death, but a police detective wonders if it was an accident -- or murder....
The Civil War JOURNAL OF JAMES EDMOND PEASE is now in paperback with an exciting repackaging!Ignorant to the bitter realities of military life, 16-yea...
An Irish Ghost Story
On his way to town to have some fun, a lazy but clever young man faces a terrible demon, who declares that his time has come....
A description of the Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Unio...
Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: Firsthand accounts of the experiences of boys sixteen and younger who fought in the Civil War, with photos included...
Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life
Want More Joy and Confidence? Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly,...
The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
National Book Award Finalist: An account of the disease that ravaged eighteenth-century Philadelphia, written and illustrated for young readers. 1793,...
Every account of the American Revolution mentions Benedict Arnold and brands him--correctly--as a traitor. There's no question that Arnold, an America...
Phoebe, Deirdre, and Mitch, college students working on their primatology and anthropology degrees, set off for Africa to find their father, who has d...
How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
"Murphy’s dramatic nonfiction narrative recounting of one of the first open heart surgeries ever performed is not to be missed." —School Library J...
This collection represents an engagement with American history, technology, and cultures. Murphy's poetry ranges from fairly straightforward narration...
Discovering the nature of God by examining the evidence of Life
What is Life? Where did it come from? Where is it going? What are the characteristics of advanced lifeforms? What will life be like as it continues to...
The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo
A biography of an Italian peasant who immigrated to America in the early twentieth century and endured poverty and the difficult life of an unskilled ...
Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time -- so groundbreaking that cr...
The author presents two hypothetical all-time, all-star teams chosen from the best players in baseball history, with accompanying research to support ...
And The One That Didn't
The assertion that 'football isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that' has been verified repeatedly throughout modern histo...
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Lib...
Follows a typical day in the life of a family of Hypsilophodons, a smaller, lesser-known dinosaur whose great speed aided its survival....
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An American Plague...
Gold...silver...precious gems...the stuff dreams are made of. This is the story of a hoard of just such valuable metals and stones, whose journey begi...
The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and re...
Takes the reader through an Indy 500, including the crash of one of the cars. Discusses the car, track, pit crew, etc....