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The fool's girl

2010
Violetta travels to London with her comic companion, Feste, to recover the holy relic that was stolen from their kingdom by evil Malvolio only to encounter the playwright, William Shakespeare.

Mayflower treasure hunt

2007
When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit Plymouth, Massachusetts for Thanksgiving, they uncover a mystery that dates back to the landing of the Pilgrims.

The slimy Stuarts

2007
This history book describes the more gruesome side of the Stuart period. It tells why some Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked his nose and never washed his hands, and who wore fish on their feet. Facts about the revolting Roundheads and ghastly Guy Fawkes are given.

Jamestown

hands-on projects about one of America's first communities
2001
An introduction to the first English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, with step-by-step instructions for a variety of related projects including a topographical map of the settlement, a model Jamestown house, and wooden spoon puppets.

Shaping New Englands

Puritan clergymen in seventeenth-century England and New England
1994
Surveys 17th century clerical writers of significance, their books, sermon notes, and unpublished manuscripts.

Alms for oblivion

2003
A young actor arriving in London in the autumn of 1602 is soon killed and his friend must find a way to stop the murderer before he can strike again.

Work or starve

Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Colony, 1607-1609
2007
A readers' theater script for six students that describes how John Smith helped the people of the Jamestown colony from 1607 to 1609.

Giles and Metacom

a story of Plimoth and the Wampanoag
2003
In 1621, eleven-year-old Giles becomes suspicious of a Wampanoag who keeps slipping in and out of Plimoth Colony's storehouse and determines to follow him to discover why.

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