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Learn all about the fascinating lives and tremendous impact of 100 extraordinary women around the world with this fact-filled biography collection for kids.
Educational and engaging, 100 Women Who Shaped World History features:
• Simple, easy-to-read text that has been freshly updated
• Illustrated portraits of each figure
• Fascinating facts about famous and lesser-known female figures from history
• A timeline, trivia questions, project...
3) Elizabeth I
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English
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Elizabeth's rival for the love of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and mother to the Earl of Essex, the mercurial nobleman who challenged Elizabeth's throne, Lettice Knollys had been intertwined with Elizabeth since childhood. They are both women of fierce intellect and desire: one trying to protect her country, and throne, the other trying to regain power and position for her family and each vying to convince the reader of her own private vision...
9) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us - the royal family's obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes...
13) Northanger Abbey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger...
14) Autobiography of a people: three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Best American poetry volume 36
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Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
1988
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English
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Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.
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English
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"In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century "religious marketplace" in which half of Americans have changed faiths at least once, nothing has been...
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U X L
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Profiles sixty men and women who were key players on the British or American side of the American Revolution, from John Adams, who became the second president, to Eliza Wilkinson, who wrote of the day British soldiers looted her South Carolina home.