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More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes : Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then...

This book describes how the Vikings traveled westward and explored a small part of North America.

This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramidshundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.

A biography of the explorer who proved the world was round and discovered the Americas.

Introduces the life and legacy of the explorer whose journey west from Spain in search of China brought knowledge of the Americas to Europe, and describes his later life.

This book describes the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, who claimed land for Spain in the New World.

Examines the life of Columbus, his journeys of exploration to the New World, and his later years.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic, on a voyage into the unknown. He was looking for a quicker route to the Indies. What he found was a whole New World.