Robert Byrd
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This account of Franklin's life introduces young readers to his early days working in the printing press and takes them through his experiences in both the scientific and political realms, highlighting key moments that illustrate his unique characteristics and personality. Chock-full of lively anecdotes and quotations drawn from Franklin's writing, the book features a newspaper-like design accompanied by engaging artwork, facts, captions, a timeline,...
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2016.
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"The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the earliest recorded Greek myths. Here, master artist Robert Byrd has created a striking telling of the legend for a new generation of readers. Complete with explanatory notes and illustrated back matter, Jason and the Argonauts traces each step of our heros journey, from the Golden Fleeces origin story and Jasons childhood to his triumphant return with the prize and eventual death. Deftly designed...
10) The festival of bones = El festival de las calaveras: the little-bitty book for the day of the dead
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This book describes the Day of the Dead, or el Dia de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico from October 31 to November 2.
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A biography of the archaeologist who discovered the lost city of Troy. Archaeologist? Mythmaker? Crook? This engaging, illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann - a nineteenth-century romantic who most believe did find the ancient city of Troy - reveals him to be a fascinating mixture of all three. From the time Heinrich Schliemann was a boy - or so he said - he knew he was destined to dig for lost cities and find buried treasure. And if Schliemann...
13) Barbarians!
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[2009]
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"Kroll introduces four notable groups referred to by their enemies as barbarians: the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols. In each case, he looks at the lives of common people within the group, their religious beliefs, their leaders, their history, and the results of their attacks on other civilizations"--Amazon.com.
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[2022?]
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"Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. ...[T]hese stories and poems celebrate...
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