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Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word
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Revolutionary Friends: General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette
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From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
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Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams
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Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Discovered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
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Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
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Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story
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The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
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A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
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George Washington's Birthday: A Mostly True Tale
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Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words
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The Darkest Dark
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Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland
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John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
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Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
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The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau
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Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
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Mr. Gauguin's Heart
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Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
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Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
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Ron's Big Mission
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The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak
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George Washington Carver
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In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton
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Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope
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Crazy Horse's Vision
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To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda
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Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain
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Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age
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The Flower Hunter: William Bartram, America's First Naturalist
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Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer
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Through the Wardrobe: How C. S. Lewis Created Narnia
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Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
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Shackleton's Journey
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Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
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Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
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Pippo the Fool
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Grandfather Gandhi
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Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story
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Leonardo's Horse
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Smile: How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh
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Morris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog
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A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E. B. White
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
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The Extraordinary Mark Twain
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Walt Whitman: Words for America
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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
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Becoming Bach
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
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The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Bambino and Mr. Twain
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Manjiro: The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries
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Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy
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Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History: A Powerful Picture Book Biography About Slavery and Freedom for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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Toussaint L'ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
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A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
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José! Born to Dance: The Story of José Limón
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Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice
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My Papa Diego and Me / Mi papa Diego y yo: Memories of My Father and His Art / Recuerdos De Mi Padre Y Su Arte
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
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Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything
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Noah Webster: Weaver of Words
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The Bravest Man in the World
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Mozart: The Wonder Child: A Puppet Play in Three Acts
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Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
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The Genius of Leonardo
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An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers
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Mr. Cornell's Dream Boxes
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The Man Who Made Parks: The Story of Parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmsted
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The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
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The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China
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Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus
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Columbus
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Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
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Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
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Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
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Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau
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Abe's Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln
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Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
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