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Dinny Brown hurries and helps his family finish getting ready so they can walk to the fair. Grandma and Dinny start out but are soon joined by the others for a lovely fair day!
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Summer camp adventures — from arts and crafts to games to hiking — are presented in rhymes that can be sung to familiar tunes.
Dramatic photographs, attention-grabbing facts, and clear maps introduce a world of animals and their habitats. A glossary, where to go for more information, and an index make this an ideal book for both browsing and research.
As a graduate student, Venkatesh began exploring the housing projects of Chicago and befriended members of a Chicago gang (after the gang briefly kidnapped him.) Venkatesh reports on the underground economy at work and the allure of gang membership, and m
Most of us have heard of Helen Keller, but few have heard of Laura Bridgman. Left blind and deaf in her childhood in the 1830's, Bridgman attended school and taught Helen's teacher, Annie Sullivan, to fingerspell.
This big, colorful cookbook features simple recipes for budding Top Chefs. The author is also a teenager.
The latest in a series of PostSecret, Frank Warren's inspirational community art project has become an immense public confessional.
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How were otherwise kind, intelligent teenagers drawn into an organization like the Hitler Youth? This well-researched and well-documented book examines the rise of the Nazi party and its sway over teens.
Using a complicated literary format (heroic crown of sonnets) and wrenching subject matter (the lynching of Emmett Till) poet Marilyn Nelson creates a work of complete beauty.