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Babe & me

2002
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.

The hero of Ticonderoga

2002
When Tessy LeClerc is chosen to do the coveted oral report on Ethan Allen, she learns a great deal about the Vermont hero and also discovers what pleasure she gets from writing and presenting the report.

Homesick

my own story
2007
The author presents a fictionalized autobiography of her childhood in China during the 1920s.

Pocahontas

2005
Pocahontas, the eleven-year-old daughter of the Powhatan chief Mamanatowic, acts with wisdom and compassion in an effort to bring about an understanding between her people and the colonists who have come to settle in Virginia in the seventeenth century. Told in the alternating voices of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith.

James Printer

a novel of rebellion
1997
Although he has lived and worked as a printer's apprentice with the Green family in Cambridge Massachusetts, for many years, James, a Nipmuck Indian, finds himself caught up in the events that lead to a horrible war.

The last notebook of Leonardo

2010
Jem is led on an adventurous journey to find the final resting place of Leonardo da Vinci after his scientist father turns himself into a nine-foot-tall orangutan.

Rembrandt and Titus

artist and son
2005
Titus, the son of famous artist Rembrandt van Rijn, tells how his father's life and work taught him about creativity and ways of seeing the world.

Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776

2011
In 1776 Boston, twelve-year-old Daniel, hiding his parents' allegiance to the Sons of Liberty from the British officers who visit their tavern, tries to gather all the information he can and risks his life to reveal a traitor to George Washington.

Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the Earth

2008
A graphic novel adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story in which three adventurers descend to the center of the Earth where they make astounding discoveries.

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