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How I survived the Oregon Trail

the journal of Jesse Adams
1999
A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon. Each entry includes a game, recipe, or other related activity.

How I survived the Irish famine

the journal of Mary O'Flynn
2001
In 1847, during the Great Famine, twelve-year-old Mary O'Flynn keeps a journal of life and death among Ireland's tenant farmers.

Greenland mummies

1998
Describes the discovery of mummies in Greenland in 1972 and the work of forensic anthropologists who investigated the remains of these members of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Eskimos.

Ice maiden of the Andes

1997
Discusses the discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of a young girl on a mountain top in the Andes and how this discovery has increased our knowledge of the ancient South American civilization of the Incas.
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