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How to draw Pennsylvania's sights and symbols

2002
Explains how to draw some of Pennsylvania's sights and symbols, including the state seal, the official flower, and the Liberty Bell.

Pennsylvania facts and symbols

1999
Presents information about the state of Pennsylvania and its nickname, motto, and emblems.

Encounter at Easton

1994
The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania town.

The bread sister of Sinking Creek

1992
Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s.

Pennsylvania in words and pictures

1980
A brief history of the Keystone State with a description of its countryside and major cities.

Fever, 1793

2000
Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.

Pennsylvania

1996
Gives an overview of the state of Pennsylvania, including its history, geography, people, and living conditions.

The story of Punxsutawney Phil, "the fearless forecaster"

1987
After helping his family prepare their burrow for the winter and joining them in a long nap beneath the cold Pennsylvania snow, Punxsutawney Phil emerges on Groundhog Day to predict the weather.

The cabin faced west

1958
Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.

Trouble at the mines

1987
Rosie and her family are caught up in the Arnot, Pennsylvania, mining strike of 1899-1900, led by the union organizer Mother Jones.

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