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Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of the remains of what used to be the United States. The districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and ...
A compendium of biographical and historical anecdotes, recipes, activities, and crafts from the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her nine Little House books.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to Katniss to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the ...
"Collection of rare short stories by famed Anne of Green Gables author Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L.M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories. This collection brings toget...
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Chapters explore various topics from "Little House on the Prairie," providing historical and biographical information, recipes, creative activities, and related songs.
Kunta Kinte is captured in Africa and brought to the United States as a slave. His descendants survive slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction to thrive as free Americans.
Christmas Eve, 1775. For the celebrants at Parker Plantation, it's a time of joy and giving. For enslaved friends Fiddler and Kunta Kinte, it's a chance to give to other slaves the most precious gift of all: freedom.
"The original draft of Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle is presented with scribbled notes, character name changes, additions and deletions, and other pre-publication changes, offering fascinating new insight into the writing process of one of Canada's most beloved writers. ...
Outlines the scientific goals of the Hubble Telescope, as well as its history, and presents planets, star clusters, supernovae, black holes, peculiar stars, optical jets, and gravitational lenses in previously unseen detail.
"A funny and heartfelt collection of rare short stories about unlikely pairings by the famed Anne of Green Gables author. L. M. Montgomery, best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than fi...
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survivied the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena live, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.