Emily Arnold McCully
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Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
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A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
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Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClures Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century, her...
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"All his life Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and a French fur-trapper, has lived in two worlds: the Westernized world of his godfather, William Clark, and the frontier world beyond St. Louis--but he is troubled by the way Americans mistreat tribes like the Osage, Arikara, and Mandan, and as a man of mixed ancestry, he must ultimately choose which of the two heritages is more important to him." --
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Candlewick Press
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2019.
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English
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"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen,...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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[2010]
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English
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In 1940, in the south of France, four boys decided to explore a deep hole in the ground, hoping for buried treasure. After squeezing through a narrow tunnel, they entered a cave and saw more than 2000 images of cows, bulls, bison, horses and reindeer, all painted nearly 17,000 years ago on the walls of the cave.
11) Little ducks go
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Holiday House
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[2014]
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English
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Mother Duck is on the run trying to keep her ducklings safe.
13) 3, 2, 1, go!
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Holiday House
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©2015.
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English
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Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.
18) Wonder Horse
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Emily Arnold McCully won a Caldecott Medal for her book Mirette on the High Wire. In Wonder Horse, McCully crafts a charming tale based on the true story of Doc Key and his remarkable horse Jim. When Doc Key decides to breed a racehorse, what he gets is a foal with weak legs yet an unusually sharp mind. So Doc decides to teach his horse some new tricks-including reading and writing.
19) First snow
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"A timid little mouse discovers the thrill of sledding in the first snow of the winter." --