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  Cloaked in Courage - Uncovering...

  Beth Anderson

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  Deborah Sampson longs to break free. To be much more than a girl is allowed to be. Caught up in her country’s fight for independence, 18-year-old Deborah declares her own independence. She soon enlists in George Washington’s Continental Army, signing on as Robert Shurtliff.  
  A young lady can’t battle the British—a man can! 
   
  But being a soldier is hard, dangerous work. Can she keep her identity a secret?  
   
  Can she prove herself in combat? Will she win her battle to choose her own path?  
   
  Find out in this inspirational story of a true American rebel.

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  Strange Alliance - Allies Born...

  Bryce Walton

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  Strange Alliance by Bryce Walton - Haunted by their dark heritage, a medieval fate awaited them.... 
  Doctor Spechaug stopped running, breathing deeply and easily where he paused in the middle of the narrow winding road. He glanced at his watch. Nine a.m. He was vaguely perplexed because he did not react more emotionally to the blood staining his slender hands. 
  It was fresh blood, though just beginning to coagulate; it was dabbled over his brown serge suit, splotching the neatly starched white cuffs of his shirt. His wife always did them up so nicely with the peasant's love for trivial detail. 
  He had always hated the silent ignorance of the peasants who surrounded the little college where he taught psychology. He supposed that he had begun to hate his wife, too, when he realized, after taking her from a local barnyard and marrying her, that she could never be anything but a sloe-eyed, shuffling peasant. 
  He walked on with brisk health down the narrow dirt road that led toward Glen Oaks. Elm trees lined the road. The morning air was damp and cool. Dew kept the yellow dust settled where spots of sunlight came through leaves and speckled it. Birds darted freshly through thickly hung branches. 
  He had given perennial lectures on hysterical episodes. Now he realized that he was the victim of such an episode. He had lost a number of minutes from his own memory. He remembered the yellow staring eyes of the breakfast eggs gazing up at him from a sea of grease. He remembered his wife screaming—after that only blankness. 
  He stopped on a small bridge crossing Calvert's Creek, wiped the blood carefully from his hands with a green silk handkerchief. He dropped the stained silk into the clear water. Silver flashes darted up, nibbled the cloth as it floated down. He watched it for a moment, then went on along the shaded road.

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  Pinkalicious: Tutu-rrific

  Victoria Kann

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  Readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peterrific on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific! 
  A fun Pinkalicious I Can Read story about ballet from New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann 
  Pinkalicious can’t wait to go to ballet class with her best friend, Alison, but things take a turn when there’s a mix-up and Pinkalicious ends up in the big kids’ class. Will Pinkalicious get lost among the dancers, or will she be able to jump to new heights? 
  Perfect for little ballerinas everywhere, Pinkalicious: Tutu-rrific is a Level One I Can Read adventure and is carefully crafted using short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts for children eager to read on their own.

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  Barry Loser and the Case of the...

  Jim Smith

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  The brilliant Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning BARRY LOSER series. Perfect for readers aged 7-10 years old and fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates and Dennis the Menace. 
  ‘My mum and dad are so busy looking after my brand new baby brother, Desmond Loser the Second, that sometimes I wonder if they even know I exist.’ 
  There’s a new Loser in town, and Barry’s not happy about it. The only thing that’s keeping him going is a superkeel new drink from Feeko’s Supermarket. But then disaster strikes, and Barry has to turn detective to solve the mystery of the century: the case of the crumpled carton! 
  Have you got all of Jim Smith’s amazekeel books? 
  I am not a Loser 
  I am still not a Loser 
  I am so over being a Loser 
  I am sort of a Loser 
  Barry Loser and the holiday of doom 
  Barry Loser and the case of the crumpled carton 
  Barry Loser’s ultimate book of keelness 
  My dad is a loser free ebook 
  My mum is a loser free ebook 
   Barry Loser: I am Not a Loser was selected as a Tom Fletcher Book Club 2017 title. 
  Future Ratboy and the attack of the killer robot grannies 
  Jim Smith is the keelest kids’ book author in the whole wide world amen. He graduated from art school with first class honours (the best you can get) and went on to create the branding for a sweet little chain of coffee shops. He also designs cards and gifts under the name Waldo Pancake. 
  Jim Smith, the Sunday Times bestselling author, presents a humorous and engaging children's book. The short stories, filled with themes of friendship, family, and education, offer a unique perspective on social fiction for juvenile readers. 
  For fans of Jeff Kinney (No Brainer), Lee. M. Winter (What Reggie Did on the Weekend), Ann M. Martin (Kristy and the Walking Disaster), Tiffany Nicole Smith (Bex Carter 2), and Maureen Straka (The New Kid 5). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  History's Famous Women Pirates

  Editors Charles River

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  The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies and refused to play by the rules have long fascinated the world, and nowhere is this more evident than the continuing interest in the pirates of centuries past. As the subjects of books, movies, and even theme park rides, people continue to let their imaginations go when it comes to pirates, with buried treasure, parrots, and walking the plank all ingrained in pop culture’s perception of them. 
  While that explains some of the reasons Grace O'Malley's life and legacy continue to resonate, she was clearly a different kind of woman altogether. Far from being a member of an unprivileged class seeking to steal booty from any ship she could, she was both a queen and a rebel who defiantly fought to protect her home and way of life against the English. Naturally, while foreigners might remember her as a pirate and one of many famous rebels opposing the English over the centuries, Ireland has remembered her as a folk hero, and she has become the subject of all the poetry, songs, plays, and movies that come along with such a standing. 19th century writer James Hardiman may have summed up her legacy the best when he wrote, “Her name has been frequently used by our Bards, to designate Ireland. Hence our Countrymen have been often called ‘Sons of old Grana Weal.’” 
  One of the most famous pirates of all time, and possibly the most famous woman to ever become one, was Anne Bonny. The Irish-born girl moved with her family to the Bahamas at a young age in the early 18th century, which at that time was a hotbed for piracy by the likes of Blackbeard, but the redhead with a fiery temper would go on to forge her own reputation. Like Anne, Mary Read was an illegitimate child who spent some of her childhood dressed up as and disguised as a little boy through incredibly strange circumstances.

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  Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering...

  Allen R. Wells

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  Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!Based on a true story, this inspiring audiobook is about a curious, tinkering girl who grew up to become one of the first Black female engineers for NASA; for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and Counting on Katherine.Yvonne Clark had an engineering spark—an instinct for figuring out how things worked.Broken lamp? She screwed, rewired, and wrenched until…light!Wrecked radio? She twisted, snipped, and hammered until…music!Clogged furnace? She picked, plucked, and cleared until…heat!When she grew up, Yvonne’s problem-solving power took her to NASA, where fellow engineers had a serious problem with the Saturn V rocket’s F-1 engine: It had hot spots—high temperatures in the engine.Can Yvonne Clark and her engineering spark solve the problem?In an electric tribute, Allen R. Wells artfully tells the life story of his favorite engineering professor who also happened to be one of our nation’s most influential African American engineers.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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