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201) Bird cloud
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Highlighting the serene Wyoming landscape and its rich heritage, Annie Proulx, author of "The shipping news," chronicles living in the Cowboy State. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Proulx gave to the 640-acre land she fell in love with on her first visit. This work of nonfiction follows Proulx as she builds a house (essentially a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen) from the ground up.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica....
204) Wild women
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Discusses the myth of women in the West compared to reality of folklore heroines such as Belle Starr, Annie Oakley, and Calamity Jane.
205) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Daniel Boone is the subject of many tall tales from the era of Westward Expansion, but many of his efforts to explore and tame the wilderness are true and exciting. The same can be said of frontiersman Davy Crockett, who died while fighting to protect the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. Annie Oakley is remembered for her marksmanship and for inspiring other women to follow her lead. Today, we still share stories about these historical figures....
207) Miss Spitfire
Author
Pub. Date
[released 2008]
Description
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
208) Magic tree house
Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
A perfect time for pandas: Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
Stallion by starlight: Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion.
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"...children get to know some real life heroes from presidents to athletes, while diving deep into a multi-sensory learning environment ideal for increasing retention and comprehension. - Learn about the lives of historical figures - Strengthen reading and comprehension skills - Improve concentration - Develop hand-eye coordination"
211) The miracle worker
Pub. Date
1999, c1962
Description
The story of Helen Keller and the guardian Annie Sullivan who broke through her barriers of blindness and deafness to communicate with her.
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