Here is an exciting new way to see the natural world. Join the adventure as one plucky red-eyed tree frog searches for something to eat--and avoids the many dangers of the rain forest There are tempting but poisonous caterpillars and hungry boa snakes ready to swallow little tree frogs!
Offers middle readers a personal look at the lives of twenty famous musicians, from how they spent their money and what they ate to what their neighbors thought about them and more. Reprint.
Describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing.
A journey of filial discovery from an internationally acclaimed artist. Peter Sms receives a letter from his father. "The Red Box is now yours," it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father's long absence during ...
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Accused of being a demon by those who could not tolerate her independence, Eleanor of Aquitaine made her mark as one of the most dynamic and extraordinary figures of the Middle Ages. Born in 1122, Eleanor refused to be confined by the traditional gender roles of her time. She became well educated, g ...
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<P>Born in 1452 to a peasant woman and a country gentleman, Leonardo da Vinci possessed one of the most astonishing minds the world has ever known. He was an inventor whose imagination reached centuries beyond his own time. He brought a sublime artistry to science and a dramatic realism to art, crow ...
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Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice andstormy seas to reach inhabited land.Describes ...
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