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Don't Know Much About History : Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis
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Current:
9.8 |
Finally, someone who tells history like it was, without the old textbook gloss that's put so many students into premature naptime and misinformed the few who stayed awake. Davis corrects the myths and misconceptions from Columbus up through
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Woe Is I : The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
Patricia T. O'Conner
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Current:
9.7 |
Nothing, barring untold verbal brilliance, endears a writer more to an editor than good, clean, grammatical writing. That's why I advocate sitting down with a grammar book every once in a while. Sounds dreary? Nah. Patricia O'Conner's Gr
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Don't Know Much About Geography
Kenneth C. Davis
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Current:
9.7 |
Davis consistently does what your junior high teacher probably didn't; he makes geography amusing and riveting. From early concepts of whether the world was a disk floating in water (Thales) or pear-shaped (Columbus), Davis explains earthqu
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A People's History of the United States (Abridged) [ABRIDGED]
Howard Zinn, Kathy Emery (Introduction)
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Current:
9.7 |
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks,
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Devotions from the World of Sports
John Hillman, Kathy Hillman
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Current:
9.7 |
Using an anecdote from sports history, each daily devotional reading guides and directs the reader to a basic Christian truth. Men and women are represented from a variety of sports, including football, baseball, basketball, Olympic sports,
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The Multicultural Student's Guide to Colleges : What Every African American, Asian-American, Hispanic, and Native American Applicant Needs to Know Abo
Robert Mitchell
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Current:
9.6 |
When it comes time for high school seniors to face the onslaught of college material, The Multicultural Student's Guide shines among college guides. It's especially useful for minority students interested in statistics on nonwhite ap
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Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries: Everyday Things
Deni Bown
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Current:
9.6 |
The Visual Dictionary of Everyday Things takes everything from teddy bears to electric razors and breaks them into beautifully depicted individual parts. Containing more than 200 color photographs and graphic illustrations, The Vi
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The New York Public Library Desk Reference
Rachel Kranz, Philip J. Koslow
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Current:
9.6 |
A revised and updated edition of the best-selling reference features information organized into twenty-seven subject areas, including the Earth, fine arts, literature, etiquette, computers, and religions. 125,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/
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The Chicago Manual of Style : The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (14th Edition)
John Grossman(Preface)
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Current:
9.6 |
The Chicago Manual of Style has set the editorial standard since 1906, providing consistent, systematic guidelines for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, and publishers. With meticulous attention to usage--in punc
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Kenneth C. Davis
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Current:
9.5 |
The third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is a beauty--2,134 pages and 8.5 pounds--containing a lexicon of more than 200,000 entries, plus an appendix of Indo-European roots for etymology enthusiasts. The crisp white page
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The Smart Girl's Guide to College : A Serious Book Written by Women in College to Help You Make the Perfect College Choice
Cristina Page, Christina Page
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Current:
9.4 |
"I know what you're going through," is how The Smart Girl's Guide to College begins, and throughout this witty and honest book the same sympathetic, big-sisterly voice prevails. Editor Cristina Page proceeds from the assump
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998 (Paper)
Robert Famighetti
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Current:
9.2 |
Now in its 130th year of publication, The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a gold mine of timely information, containing the most up-to-date data available on almost every topic known to man. Biographies of U.S. presidents? Astrono
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The American Heritage Student Thesaurus
Paul Hellweg
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Current:
9.1 |
The best resource for finding the right word The American Heritage(r) Student Thesaurus is a brand-new thesaurus designed especially for students in middle school and high school. Its advanced vocabulary has been carefully selecte
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The New York Public Library American History Desk Reference (New York Public Library Series)
John Hillman, Kathy Hillman
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Current:
9.0 |
The New York Public Library's fine volume on American history is both scholarly and easy to use. The history is divided into topical chapters ("Territorial Expansion," "Immigration and Minorities," "Military History
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Teenage Mouth
Roger Karshner
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Current:
8.9 |
Powerful monologues for young men and women embracing contemporary issues such as: gangs, rape, loneliness, parents, cars, dating, etc. Written in modern, direct speech-the language of today. more]
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The Pigman
Paul Zindel
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Current:
8.8 |
For sophomores John and Lorraine, the world feels meaningless; nothing is important. They certainly can never please their parents, and school is a chore. To pass the time, they play pranks on unsuspecting people. It's during one of
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Beyond the Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
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Current:
8.8 |
Dark deeds continue at Trinity High School, climaxing in a public demonstration of one student's homemade guillotine. Sequel to The chocolate war. Read more
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Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)
Jean Webster
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Current:
8.7 |
The mysterious Daddy-long-legs promises to send Jerusha Abbot to college...provided she follows his rules. Read more
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And Both Were Young
Madeleine L'Engle
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Current:
8.7 |
Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul. Read more
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Anne of the Island (The Anne of Green Gables Novels, No. 3)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Current:
8.6 |
"How horrible it is that people have to grow up!" Wishing couldn't keep Anne of Green Gables from growing up. Anne's whole world was changing. Her childhood friends were beginning to get married, and Anne herself was leaving th
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Tangerine
Edward Bloor
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Current:
8.6 |
So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. He can see the lies his parents and brother live out, day after day. No one ever listens to Paul, though--until the fa
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Roughnecks
Thomas Cochran
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Current:
8.4 |
Time passes, and it's impossible to call a time-out in the middle of life. Travis Cody learns many of these lessons on the football field, head-to-head against the competition. Is he a winner or a loser? A single play could change the whole
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Rats Saw God
Rob Thomas
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Current:
8.3 |
In order to pass English class and graduate, 18-year-old Steve York has to write a 100- page essay about his life. What sounds like a run-of-the-mill writing assignment, however, becomes an excuse for Steve to reflect on the last four years
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Slave Day
Rob Thomas, Aaron Meshon (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.3 |
Outraged over the annual "Slave Day" fundraiser at his high school, Keene Davenport cooks up a few plans of his own in protest. Civil disobedience rarely proceeds smoothly in any environment--especially in a high school--so many s
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Wrestling Sturbridge
Rich Wallace, T. Gates
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Current:
8.3 |
Ben will be damned if he's going to stay in Sturbridge, Pennsylvania, when he gets out of high school. Work in the cinder block factory like everyone else? No way. He's also not going to let his friend Al win the state wrestling championshi
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The Moves Make the Man
Bruce Brooks
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Current:
8.3 |
"Brooks's fine first novel has a baskeball theme and plenty of action, but sport is merely the vehicle for delivering a serious story of friendship and madness."—SLJ. "Brilliant sportswriting and a trenchant examination of the friendsh
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Missing the Piano
Adam Rapp
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Current:
8.1 |
Mike, at fifteen years old, is sent to St. Matthew's Military Academy and feels that he will be expected to take part in the harsh treatments of others due to school traditions, but Mike does not want to be a part of it and devises a drasti
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Don't Know Much About the Civil War : Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis
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Current:
8.0 |
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The Gifted Kids Survival Guide : A Teen Handbook
Judy Galbraith
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Current:
8.0 |
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Elements of Style
William Strunk
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Current:
8.0 |
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Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Charles Panati
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Current:
8.0 |
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Hammond Atlas of the World
Hammond Incorporated
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Current:
8.0 |
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Clueless in the Kitchen : A Cookbook for Teens
Evelyn Raab, George Walker (Illustrator)
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8.0 |
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Where Will This Shoe Take You? : A Walk Through the History of Footwear
Laurie Lawlor
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8.0 |
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Roget's Thesaurus
Rachel Kranz, Philip J. Koslow
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Biographical Dictionary of African Americans
Rachel Kranz, Philip J. Koslow
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Current:
7.9 |
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Nothing but the Truth : A Documentary Novel (An Avon Flare Book)
Avi
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7.9 |
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Heart of a Champion
Carl Deuker
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Current:
7.9 |
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Ultimate Sports : Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults
Donald R. Gallo
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Current:
7.9 |
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There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
Jerry Spinelli, Randy Barrett (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.9 |
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Flour Babies
Anne Fine
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Current:
7.9 |
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Celine
Brock Cole
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Current:
7.9 |
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Crash
Jerry Spinelli
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Current:
7.9 |
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Alien Game
Catherine Dexter
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Current:
7.9 |
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Shots on Goal
Rich Wallace
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Current:
7.9 |
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Whistling Toilets
Randy Powell
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Current:
7.8 |
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Necessary Roughness
Marie G. Lee
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Current:
7.7 |
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The Encyclopedia of World Religions
Robert S. Ellwood, Gregory D. Alles
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7.6 |
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