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Davy Crockett saves the world

2001
Davy Crockett stops the evil Halley's Comet from destroying the world and wins the heart of Sally Sugartree in the process.

The magic hockey stick

1999
When her parents win Wayne Gretzky's hockey stick at a charity auction, a young girl begins playing with it and becomes her team's star.

Little house friends

1998
Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.

Shake Rag

from the life of Elvis Presley
1998
A story about a period in the childhood of Elvis Presley when his family was dirt poor and he was introduced to the soulful music of the Sanctified Church that travelled to his town.

Pedro's journal

a voyage with Christopher Columbus, August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493
1991
The cabin boy on the "Santa Maria" keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492.

Homesick

my own story
1982
The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.

Dreaming of America

an Ellis Island story
2000
Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
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How I learned geography

2008
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. 'Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
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Stage fright on a summer night

2002
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
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Revolutionary War on Wednesday

2000
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
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