Lincoln James
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief explaination of a solar eclipse which rarely lasts more than several minutes. Nevertheless, it is considered to be one of the most awe inspiring spectacles in all of nature. To witness such an event is a singularly memorable experience which cannot be conveyed adequately through words or photographs.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
181 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living with irresponsible parents in a seedy part of a big city in 1910, thirteen-year-old Roger falls in with a gang of murderous burglars and discovers an unpleasant secret about his father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
152 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
178 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
10) Wild boy
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.
11) Duke Ellington
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
ix, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the great jazz trumpeter traces his growth as an artist, his success as an entertainer, and his relationships with fellow musicians.