Brown, Don

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Rare treasure

Mary Anning and her remarkable discoveries
1999
Describes the life of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus fossil led to a lasting interest in other prehistoric animals.

Kid blink beats the world

2004
A story of the newsboys (and girls) who took on the world's most powerful press barons--and won.

American boy

the adventures of Mark Twain
2003
Shares some of the adventures of Samuel Clemens's childhood and youth in Hannibal, Missouri--the source of much of his inspiration for his writings as Mark Twain.

Across a dark and wild sea

2002
Tells the story of St. Columcille, a sixth-century Irish monk and scribe who instigated a terrible battle between Irish clans in his efforts to keep learning and scholarship alive during the Dark Ages.

The notorious Izzy Fink

2006
In the 1890s, struggling to support himself and his invalid father among the gangs on New York's Lower East Side, thirteen-year-old Sam Glodsky joins mobster Monk Eastman and his own archenemy, Izzy Fink, in a plot to rescue Eastman's prize racing pigeon from a quarantined steamship.

Bright path

young Jim Thorpe
2006
A biography of Jim Thorpe, an American Indian athlete, who became the star of the 1912 Olympics.

Mack made movies

2003
A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.

One giant leap

the story of Neil Armstrong
1998
Discusses the life and accomplishments of astronaut Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio to his famous moon landing.

Alice Ramsey's grand adventure

1997
Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco by automobile in 1909.

The train jumper

2007
Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else.".

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