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Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents facts about the lack of sanitation, personal hygiene, dental care, antibiotics, and insecticides in eighteenth-century America and the unfortunate results such a lack had on everday living conditions.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"No war is simple or uncomplicated, but the history of the Civil War is extraordinary complex. In his new book, esteemed historian Frank E. Vandiver catalogs the significant characters, events, and cultural phenomena of the war in 1001 concise entries. Whether you read it straight from beginning to end or thumb through haphazardly, you are sure to find every page full of essential facts and fascinating trivia, from a short history of the most famous...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock-- and was one of the events that led to the recycling movement."--Provided by publisher.