National Geographic Kids. March 2008.
Packed with cool science, abundant in animal tales, and filled with fun jokes and activities, National Geographic Kids is a wonderful magazine for young readers.
The March 2008 issue opens with “Weird but true: 9 Outrageous Facts”; the magazine walks the line of informational and silly, which is sure to capture the [...]
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National Geographic Kids
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Emily Dickinson’s Letters to the World ~ Jeanette Winter
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Winter, Jeanette. 2002. Emily Dickinson’s Letters to the World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left behind an astonishing number of poems; she considered her work letters to the world.
Winter frames the story of Emily Dickinson’s life by her sister’s discovery of her poems after her death; Lavinia begins [...]
Shipwrecked! ~ Rhoda Blumberg
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Blumberg, Rhoda. 2001. Shipwrecked!: The true adventures of a Japanese Boy. New York: HarperCollins.
Though not yet out of his teens, Manjiro was charged with the role of head of his household in Nakahama, Japan. A fisherman by inheritance, Manjiro sailed out with a small group of others to fish the waters around their hometown only [...]
American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain ~ Don Brown
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Brown, Don. 2003. American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Samuel Clemens, born in Missouri in 1835, had an auspicious beginning: Halley’s comet marked the sky that very night. His life from there was one of adventure, of times spent with friends, listening to stories and playing in and along the banks [...]
