kings and rulers

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The princess and the bear

2010
A hound who was once a princess and a bear who was once a king travel back in time to save a kingdom and find their human selves.

The twelve dancing princesses

2009
The tale of twelve princesses who wear out new shoes each day, and the king's quest to solve the mystery of how this happens.

Tecumseh

2008
Offers a brief overview of the life of Native American leader Tecumseh, discussing his childhood, tribal life, and efforts to help Native Americans protect their land from white settlers.

Read about Geronimo

2006
A short biography of Geronimo, renegade leader of the Chiricahua Apaches during the later nineteenth century, examining his childhood in Arizona territory, his war against Mexico and the U.S. Army, and his capture in 1886.

Ten tall soldiers

a story
2001
The king's soldiers are powerless to protect him from the fearsome monsters he keeps seeing around him, until Peter points out exactly where they are coming from and what their true nature is.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1987
Examines the life of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and established a vast European empire.

The Chestnut King

100 Cupboards
2010
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.

The thirteenth scroll

2001
The sorceress Aurya will kill an innocent child to fulfill a prophesy in the forbidden Thirteenth Scroll and ensure her lover's place as the High King of Aghamore unless Lysandra, a blind healer disturbed by prophetic dreams, can stop her and save the kingdom.

Merciless monarchs and ruthless royalty

2013
Profiles history's most powerful and evil kings and queens, including Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible, Bloody Mary, and Cixi.

Philip II and Alexander the Great unify Greece in world history

2000
Describes the efforts of Philip II of Macedonia and his son, Alexander the Great, to unify the different parts of Greece and to establish a vast Greek empire.

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