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A monumental classic and one of the most widely read novels in history, Les Misérables portrays the epic struggle between good and evil in the soul of one man: Jean Valjean. In a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, the ex-convict struggles to renew his life and reaffirm his humanity. But he is haunted, both by his seemingly inescapable past and the malignant shadow of the infamous police detective Javert.

Rich in detail, packed with adventure, and filled with the sweep of human passions, Les Misérables is more than a literary masterpiece — it remains a powerful social document. Dedicated to the poor, the oppressed, and the misunderstood, this captivating novel captures the impossible societal layers — and the essence of life — as it truly existed in nineteenth-century France.

This fine edition features the renowned original translation and a sensitive abridgment.

Reprint of the Pagnerre, Paris, 1862 edition.

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Starting with tranquil scenes of prosperity that were shattered by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and concluding with the signing of the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, this dramatic coloring book traces the history of "the war to end all wars." Thirty-five realistic illustrations depict Gallipoli, Jutland, and other momentous battles; the introduction of gas, machine guns, and other new weaponry; Mata Hari, Lawrence of Arabia, and other famous figures; and a chronological view of historic events.

Dover Original.

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On a blustery afternoon in 1902, Jimmy and Clara Blair observe a strange kite in the North Carolina sky over Kitty Hawk Peninsula. They soon meet the kite's flyers, a pair of bicycle mechanics from Ohio named Orville and Wilbur Wright, and assist the inventors in realizing their dream of human flight.

The We Were There series brings history to life for young readers with engaging, action-packed entertainment. These illustrated tales combine fictional and real-life characters in settings of landmark events from the past. All of the books are reviewed for accuracy and approved by expert historical consultants.

Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlop, New York, 1960 edition.

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Travel back to the 1860s to witness the dramatic track-laying contest between the Union and Central Pacific Railroads. Join Irish immigrants Sheamus and Nora Cullen and their children, Mike and Feena, as the family travels westward by freight car and riverboat to begin a new life on the American frontier.

The We Were There series brings history to life for young readers with engaging, action-packed entertainment. These illustrated tales combine fictional and real-life characters in settings of landmark events from the past. All of the books are reviewed for accuracy and approved by expert historical consultants.

Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1960 edition.

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New England is ripe for revolution in the fall of 1773, and young Jeremy and Deliverance Winthrop are eager to play their part. The brother-and-sister duo join the conspiracy against the red-coated British "lobsterbacks," carrying messages from Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and other patriots to set the stage for the famous event in Boston Harbor.

The We Were There series brings history to life for young readers with engaging, action-packed entertainment. These illustrated tales combine fictional and real-life characters in settings of landmark events from the past. All of the books are reviewed for accuracy and approved by expert historical consultants.

Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1956 edition.

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In the summer of 1863, a sleepy little Pennsylvania town explodes with action as Confederate and Union troops converge for a decisive Civil War battle. Jonathan Blayne and his sister Mary take part in the three-day conflict with a dramatic series of adventures that feature appearances by Lee, Lincoln, and other historical figures.

The We Were There series brings history to life for young readers with engaging, action-packed entertainment. These illustrated tales combine fictional and real-life characters in settings of landmark events from the past. All of the books are reviewed for accuracy and approved by expert historical consultants.

Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1955 edition.

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Interactive Notebook: Earth & Space Science is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive science notebooks. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for earth and space science. The lessons cover units of study in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. This interactive approach to diagramming science concepts gives students many opportunities to create models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. This workbook:

• -Helps students record, store, and organize essential information
• -Serves as a resource for review and test prep
• -Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information
• -Supports Next Generation Science Standards
• -Correlates to current national, state, and provincial standards

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From its origins as a sharpened stick in the days of cave dwellers, the sword developed over the centuries into one of mankind’s deadliest and most widely used weapons. This fascinating volume traces the development of the sword in 44 carefully researched, ready-to-color drawings. Authentically costumed depictions of sword-wielders both famous and obscure include Queen Boadicea, King Charlemagne, a twelfth-century Muslim warrior, a Puritan of the seventeenth century, and many others.

Detailed, informative captions accompany finely wrought illustrations of a Sumerian bronze sickle sword (3000 B.C.), an elaborate Babylonian iron sword (600 B.C.), a steel sword of the Chinese Han dynasty (200 B.C.), a Scottish “Claymore” sword (1500), a Spanish basket-hilt broad sword (1650), a pirate “buccaneer” cutlass (1700), a Confederate artillery officer’s saber of the American Civil War period (1864), and 37 more. Coloring book fans, students of weaponry, and armchair swashbucklers will all relish this rich pictorial history of the sword and its many variations.

Dover Original.

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Thirty full-page illustrations chronicle key events of one of the twentieth century's most important social movements. Informative captions accompany the dramatic scenes, from Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation through the movement’s struggles and achievements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Dover Original. Learn More

Kids will discover fascinating facts about Air Force One, one of the most famous symbols of presidential power, with these 30 detailed illustrations and informative captions. They'll enjoy coloring while learning about the history, functions, and unique features of the highly customized Boeing 747, which serves as transportation for the United States commander in chief. Dover Original. Learn More

Brush up on your American history trivia skills with this fun-filled puzzle book!

History buffs, trivia enthusiasts, and anyone who loves brain games will welcome this collection of word search puzzles. All of the 88 puzzles and their solutions offer an entertaining approach to American history, and every page contains clues to interesting tidbits about the life and times of Presidents and First Ladies, from George and Martha Washington to Donald and Melania Trump and everyone in between.

Discover which President had a pet alligator, which First Lady was the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, Dolley Madison's nickname for her husband, and scores of other fun facts. An alphabetized list appears above each puzzle grid, providing readers with clues. Solutions to all puzzles are featured at the end of the book.

Dover Original.

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More than 40 activities make it fun to learn about the United States! Discover interesting facts about American history, geography, and landmarks when you tackle these mazes, crosswords, spot-the-difference scenes, word searches, secret codes, and other puzzles. You can check the solutions if you get stuck, and the pictures are fun to color, too. Dover Original. Learn More

For motorcycle fans, the names of Harley-Davidson, BMW, Norton, Indian, Honda, Kawasaki, and Suzuki conjure up a wealth of models and styles. Exciting symbols of popular culture, these powerful machines are featured here in a book sure to thrill motorcycle aficionados and colorists alike. Chronicling over 100 years of motorcycle history, 45 accurate, finely detailed illustrations depict a splendid line of motorized cycles, beginning with the Gottlieb Daimler Motor Bicycle (1885) and ending with the Honda ES21 Future Motorcycle Concept Prototype.

In addition, cycle devotees will find ready-to-color illustrations of these popular models:

• Excelsior Motor Bike (1902)
• Harley-Davidson Model J (1915)
• BMW R31 (1923)
• Triumph Speed Twin (1939)
• Matchless G9 (1951)
• Norton Commando 850 (1975)
• Ducatti MHR Mille (1984)
• Honda GL1500 “Gold Wing” (1991)
• Royal Enfield (1913)
• Zenith Gradua (1920)
• Brough Superior 680 (1933)
• Indian "Chief" (1947)
• BSA A65 Lightning (1966)
• Kawasaki Z1300 (1979)
• Moto Guzzi Le Mans 1000 (1984)
• Yamaha GTS1000A (1993)
• … and 27 other superb machines.

An extensive caption accompanying each illustration identifies the manufacturer and provides details on horsepower, materials of construction, weight, speed, and other data.

Dover Original.

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Step inside this inspiring gallery to color more than forty portraits of great heroes of American history. Realistic likenesses, including background scenes, portray images of Neil Armstrong, Sandra Day O'Connor, Bill Gates, Frederick Douglass, Chief Joseph, Sally Ride, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and dozens of other historic figures. Dover Original. Learn More

This educational coloring book details the Statue of Liberty's rich and stirring history and the immigration into America through Ellis Island. Thirty-eight illustrations feature complete captions and are based on historical paintings, wood engravings, and photographs taken from contemporary newspapers, magazines, and other sources. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 1–2.

Boost: Seriously Fun Learning! Keeping children entertained and engaged is the key to learning, and the Boost series offers a wide range of fun-filled coloring and activity books that help teach a variety of basic skills. Each title is targeted to a specific grade range and carefully aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which are listed at the bottom of each page.

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Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Discovery and Exploration for grades 5–8. This 64-page interactive notebook includes 19 lessons that cover four units of study: Discovery, Europeans Seek New Trade Routes to Asia, Spanish Exploration, and French and English Exploration of the New World. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. This workbook helps students record, store, and organize essential information and serve as resources for review and test prep.

The Interactive Notebook series for grades 5 through 8 is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive notebooks. Each book provides an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for the social studies classroom.

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These colorful sticker images offer you a short, but exciting lesson in the history of flight. Sixteen peel-and-apply illustrations portray such heavier-then-air ships as early gliders, the Sopwith Camel, the Red Baron's Fokker DR-1 triplane, the A-10 Thunderbolt, the Boeing 767, and the F-14 Tomcat. Use these accurately drawn illustrations for classroom assignments or add a high-flying note to lunch boxes, notebooks, and other flat surfaces. Dover Original. Learn More

Return to the era of Mesozoic monsters with this fascinating coloring book collection of ancient reptiles. For this unique volume, the former staff artist of the American Museum of Natural History has rendered in accurate detail 37 different prehistoric creatures in their natural habitats — stalking prey along the shores of a tropical lake, circling the skies high above lush forests of exotic vegetation and grazing in primeval marshlands. Twenty dramatic double-page and five single-page illustrations arranged in chronological order vividly display the evolution of the dinosaurs from the early reptilian Euparkeria to such giants of the dinosaurs' last days as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

Young and old alike can share in the excitement of bringing color to such formidable specimens as Tyrannosaurus; the equally aggressive Allosaurus; the spike-thumbed Iguanodon, a large, plant-eating biped; the bony-plated Ankylosaurus; and, of course, the familiar Brontosaurus, also known as Apatosaurus, a plant-eating "lizard" that weighed up to 30 tons and grew to a length of 70 feet.

An excellent educational tool for teachers, this coloring book offers hours of absorbing entertainment to students, dinosaur buffs, natural-history enthusiasts and colorists of all ages. Informative captions for each illustration provide intriguing details about the ancient animals depicted in this reptilian review.

Dover Original.

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Horses take hold of our imaginations when they gallop across the plains whinnying into the wind. But most of all, horses capture our hearts. And it's said they've done more to change human history than any other domestic animal. John Green skillfully portrays the legendary grace and beauty of this animal in a collection of 30 illustrations. Handsome equines — from Clydesdales to show horses — are depicted in the wild and at work. Brief captions supplement an impressive panorama of one of the world's best-loved and most highly prized animals. Dover Original. Learn More

With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.

"A simple, attractive, informative book about a milestone in American history. The simplest and most accessible history of the Constitution to date."—School Library Journal

Supports the Common Core State Standards

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Elementary History Curriculum from Pandia Press

Grade level: appropriate for 1st – 4th grade as a read-aloud, 5th grade+ as an independent read

Book type: Narrative History book with many backline drawing illustrations and maps

Through an exciting and rich narrative, History Quest: Early Times takes you on a journey into the past to experience the rise and fall of ancient civilizations and empires. You’ll visit faraway places to meet and learn from everyday folks, famous world leaders, and even a few mythological characters. Designed as a read-aloud for elementary-age children, an independent read for older students, or a journey of exciting adventures for family storytime, the History Quest series presents an immersive study of history in an engaging and memorable format.  

In every chapter of History Quest you will find a "History Hop!" that takes you on an imaginary journey back in time to meet historical characters and visit historical places such as a campfire breakfast with a Paleolithic family, tea time with Empress Leizu in Ancient China, a chat with Socrates at the Agora, and more! Blackline drawing illustrations and maps included.

516 pages. From Pandia Press

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History Quest: Early times Study Guide contains everything you need for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of History Quest: Early Times (#6521), the narrative history series, and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of early civilizations through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more. Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy ancient literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from four ancient civilizations across the world

. The History Quest: Early Times Study Guide is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history. From Paleolithic times to the Islamic Empire, the Study Guide to History Quest: Early Times is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with activities, world geography, great books, and writing. Young students study events and people from early civilization including ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Mesoamerica, Persia, Greece, India, Rome, Kush and Aksum, China, and Arabia. This comprehensive curriculum combines history studies with geography, literature, hands-on activities, and writing.

History Quest:  Early Times Study Guide is a teacher/parent guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from Pre-history to the 8th century CE.

270 pages. Grades 1-4.

From Pandia Press.

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Painter, architect, scientist, inventor — Leonardo da Vinci ranks as history's consummate innovator. Consumed with a boundless desire for knowledge, he investigated technical challenges that were hundreds of years ahead of his time. The power of flight was a particular source of fascination for him, and his close studies of bird anatomy and movement informed his development of the ornithopter — a winged, human-powered aircraft.

With Leonardo's da Vinci's Flying Machine, you can create a fully working model of the inventor's amazing creation. This self-contained model kit features a 48-page book with details from Leonardo's notebooks plus full-color, easily joined components. Once assembled, the wings flap by turning a crank. Like the prototype, your model won't actually fly, but you'll have an amazing replica of one of the Renaissance genius's most famous futuristic inventions.

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Ranging from the bombardment of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 to The Great Recession in 2007, this Timeline features 28 dated illustrations to help your student learn and visualize the incredible people and events of the last 150 years. Well-known figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Gladys Aylward, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., are interspersed with the seminal events of the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Designed to aid students in understanding the chronology of historical events the Timeline will be a useful teaching tool as well as a fun project. With its dated illustrations of significant events and individuals, students cut and color the detailed drawings and paste them on three 6" x 34" card-stock strips which are scored and able to fold for convenient storage in the student notebook. Many students will mount their completed timelines on the wall. When assembled this timeline will stretch to nearly nine feet in length! Author: Josh Berg. From Beautiful Feet Books Learn More