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Will longs to be a knight, like his older brother Gavin. Then he could ride a charger, fight bravely in the Crusades for King Richard, and win the heart of a fair maiden. All he needs is a horse. And when he chooses one, he chooses well - a small chestnut stallion with...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-02-05
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Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays and their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is prince, heir to King Henry VIII of England, whilstTom is a miserable pauper. But fate intervenes, and their identities become...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2004-01-29
ePub
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of brave black men and women during the Civil War and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2003-04-07
Collection :
Black Stars
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Natasha's story is set against the background of the Russian Revolution as she and her family flee persecution. Her story is dramatically and cleverly linked with the present as her heirs search for her will. The will can only be found through a trail of literary clues...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2000-08-03
ePub
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Nicholas Highgate, separated from his parents during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, is smuggled to the mainland by his Chinese nurse and disguised as a Chinese boy. As he grows to manhood he witnesses the atrocities and deprivations of the Japanese occupation and...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
1998-08-27
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In Back Home, Michelle Magorian, author of the bestselller Goodnight Mister Tom, tells the powerful and unforgettable story of Rusty, returning to England after being evacuated to America for five years in the Second World War.After five happy years in America, Rusty...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
1987-08-27
Collection :
A Puffin Book
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It is 1803 at the Hudson’s Bay post of York Factory and fifteen year old Elias Gunn faces a dilemma.His grandfather wants his sons and grandsons to accompany him inland to Fort Edmonton to deliver the supplies the men at the fort will need to survive fora year. Elias...
Editeur :
Books We Love Ltd.
Parution :
2025-08-01
ePub
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Maude Abbott's story is a testament to resilience and determination, an inspiring journey of a medical pioneer in Canada.Maude Abbott cherishes the dream of going to university. She even wants to become a doctor. But a 19th century woman has no place in that world of...
Editeur :
Les célèbres anonymes
Parution :
2025-06-17
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Middle grade historical fiction inspired by the real 18th-century shipwreck off Halifax Harbour, and the local boy who risked his life to save those on board.
It's 1797. Joe has lived with Gram ever since the crusty old midwife found him on her doorstep thirteen years...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2025-05-27
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Set in the 1950's, this moving new picture book follows a young family as they travel across the ocean to a new home in a new land — Canada.Based on a true story of a family's journey recorded at The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, The Moon's...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Ephemia Rimaldi is an irrepressible girl thrust into challenging circumstances. Effy's Great-aunt Ada has died, and her other relatives, a committee of vultures, are bent on stealing her education trust fund for themselves. Twelve-year-old Effy's only hope is to locate...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2024-05-28
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Teach students about the harsh experiences and struggles that families faced during the Great Depression. With this script, students will act out the story of a girl named Lillian whose father loses his job, causing the family to move from New York t
Editeur :
Teacher Created Materials
Parution :
2024-04-01
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Students will act out the story of two women, Alice and Lucy, from the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The group is trying to get women the right to vote, but they are moving too slowly! Alice and Lucy resort to their own meth
Editeur :
Teacher Created Materials
Parution :
2024-04-01
Collection :
Social Studies: Informational Text
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Students will act out the Civil War story of the Battle of Fredericksburg. During the battle, many soldiers from the Union are left to die, but one brave, heroic Confederate soldier crosses into unsafe territory to provide help and save many of their
Editeur :
Teacher Created Materials
Parution :
2024-04-01
Collection :
Reader's Theater
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When Jane Mooney’s older brother Connor lies about his age and enlists in the Great War at age fifteen, she can’t imagine ever being more devastated. But on December 6, 1917, when two ships collide in Halifax Harbour, the resulting explosion proves her wrong.
An injured...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2023-09-26
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Students will act out the story of two captains, Lewis and Clark, on a mission to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean! A Shoshone Indian woman named Sacagawea helps them along their journey over the Rocky Mountains. This Reader's Theater script features roles...
Editeur :
Teacher Created Materials
Parution :
2023-05-01
Collection :
Reader's Theater
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Students will act out the story of famous inventor and statesman, Benjamin Franklin! This historical script takes readers on a journey with the curious Benjamin as he experiments with electricity, goes to London to fight for colonists' rights, and helps with the...
Editeur :
Teacher Created Materials
Parution :
2023-05-01
Collection :
Reader's Theater
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Where the sandspit ends and the harbour channel begins, the Lonely Little Lighthouse sat weathered and beaten by time. Neglected, her paint peeling, she was quietly decaying, falling piece by piece into the sea…
The Lonely Little Lighthouse remembers. She remembers the...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2022-06-30
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Thirteen-year-old Dale Melnyk finds himself stuck in an iron lung, desperately fighting for breath — and wishing he could die. It is the worst outbreak of polio in the history of Winnipeg, and Dale is one of the many young victims being treated in the early 1950s....
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2021-10-27
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They say Dor’s family is cursed. The house her great-great grandfather built on the south side of St. John’s has never been at peace; the old people think it lies on a fairy path. Ever since electricity came to the island, things have worsened, and experiments in the...
Editeur :
Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides
Parution :
2021-10-26
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