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Recommended for 7-12 Grade

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History | Nonfiction

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1812: The War Nobody Won

Describes the causes and leading events of the early nineteenth-century conflict between Great Britain and the United States.

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Recommended for 7-10 Grade

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Young United States, 1783-1830: A Time of Change and Growth, a Time of Learning Democracy, a Time of New Ways of Living, Thinking, and Doing

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Describes the history, government, industries, schools, society, culture, and westward expansion during the first fifty years of United States independence.

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Recommended for 6-12 Grade

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Adventure | Fiction | Historical

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Roving Commission: Or, Through the Black Insurrection of Hayti

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A story of the sea, with all its life and action, it is also full of thrilling adventures on land. So it holds the keenest interest until the end. The scene is a new one to Mr. Henty’ s readers, being laid at the time of the Great Revolt of the Blacks, by which Hayti became independent. Toussaint 1’Overture appears, and an admirable picture is given of him and of his power.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade

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Anthologies | Poetry

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Keats: Poems Published in 1820

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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. During his life, his poems were not generally well received by critics; however, after his death, his reputation grew to the extent that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He has had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers: Jorge Luis Borges, for instance, stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.

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GN580L

Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin (Inventions and Discovery)

Tells the story of how Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and the effects it had on the Southern United States. Written in graphic-novel format.

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Recommended for 1-6 Grade

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Biographies | Nonfiction | Technology

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Story of Eli Whitney

Newbery Award-winning author tells the story of the man whose inventive genius made cotton king in America and in the world. Eli Whitney transformed the textile industry with his invention of the cotton gin; and he revolutionized the manufacturing process around the world with his creation of standardized parts.

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Recommended for 8-12 Grade

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James Watt

James Watt, born in Greenock, January 19, 1736, had the advantage, so highly prized in Scotland, of being of good kith and kin. He had indeed come from a good nest. His great-grandfather, a stern Covenanter, was killed at Bridge of Dee, September 12, 1644, in one of the battles which Graham of Claverhouse fought against the Scotch. He was a farmer in Aberdeenshire, and upon his death the family was driven out of its homestead and forced to leave the district.

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Recommended for 5-7 Grade

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James Watt (Famous People, Famous Lives #14)

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In this book, the reader learns that James Watt was a scientific instrument maker who was asked to repair a working model of an early type of steam engine used to pump water out of Cornish tin mines. It was when he set about improving the design, so it would exert more power but use less fuel, and teamed up with a mine owner from Birmingham, that his machines became popular. Despite illness and heartbreak, Watt went on to modify his engine so it could power machines in factories that produced goods, such as cotton. The narrative shows how this ushered in the era of mass-production, while accurate illustration show how Watt’s engines work.

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Recommended for 10-12 Grades

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Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art.

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Recommended for 4-6 Grades

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Fiction | Historical

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Ocean-Born Mary

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Historical novel about the early life of Mary Wilson Wallace (1720-1830), who was called “Ocean-Born Mary” because legend had it that her mother gave birth to her on a ship that had just been boarded by pirates, who spared the lives of all aboard if the child was named Mary.

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