Any Small Goodness : A Novel of the Barrio

from the back cover: Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor. An area of freeway chases and drive-bys and death. But there's another L.A., one where warmth and humor and humanity pervade. Where a tacqueria sign declares: "One cause, one people, one taco."

Many Nations : An Alphabets of Native America

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078073005994

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32p; ill; col; pbk

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The Longman Picture Dictionary

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9780582299818

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413.17 ASH

Benjamin Franklin (Giants of Science)

Benjamin Franklin is a famous colonial inventor and multitasker who may be best remembered as one of America’s Founding Fathers. But he was also a “natural philosopher” (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity—including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same. In a fa…

Tales of The Shaman's Apprentice

For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the heali…

Christopher Columbus (Step into Reading, Step 3, Grades 1-3) Paperback

Illus. in full color. Youngsters can celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's fateful voyage with this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in American history. "

Greatest Love Poems

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9781848374805

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821 EDG G

Pocahontas

from the back cover: A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love . . . But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story o…

Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry

A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America's former poet laureate, Billy Collins. [from the back cover of the book.]

George Washington: Our First President

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9780439098670

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920 JAC