Toliver's Secret
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| ISBN | 0316517291 |
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To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
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| ISBN | 0440415292 |
One day the impossible...
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| ISBN | 0394837029 |
Author: Marie and Douglas Gorsline
Illustrator: Marie and Douglas Gorsline
Type of Book (format and literary genre): Picture book/ Non-Fiction
Awards the book has received (national): None
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| ISBN | 0394891201 |
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| ISBN | 0590451596 |
--Why the Constitution is called a miracle.
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--What was missing from the Constitution.
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| ISBN | 1887840427 |
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| ISBN | 0375803971 |
good leader. As he grew older, George saw how England took advantage of the American colonies—and he didn't like it. When the colonies declared their independence,...
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Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family?
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| ISBN | 0590462067 |
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