Monday, June 29, 2009
Our Hero, General U. S. Grant/Google Books
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Overview.
Our Hero, General U. S. Grant: When, Where, and how He Fought. In Words of One Syllable
Authors Josephine Pollard, Edwin Forbes
Illustrated by Edwin Forbes
Publisher McLoughlin brothers, 1885
Length 167 pages
Saturday, June 27, 2009
History of Russia for Younger Children/Google Books
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Stories from Don Quixote/Google Books
Monday, June 22, 2009
The Arithmetic Reader for Second Grade Pupils
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Changes at Google Books
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A History of Mathematics/Google Books
By Florian Cajori
Published by Macmillan & Co., 1893
422 pages
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This would be appropriate for advanced high school students
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Boys of Other Countries/Internet Archives
BOYS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
STORIES FOR AMERICAN BOYS
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1876
STORY I.
THE LITTLE POST-BOY
STORY II.
THE PASHA'S SON
STORY III.
JON OF ICELAND
STORY IV.
THE Two HERD-BOYS
STORY V.
THE YOUNG SERF
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
Heroic Legends/Google Books
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Elementary - early middle school.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature /Google Books
By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Published by Macmillan Co., 1918
424 pages
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Rollo on the Rhine
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans/Google books
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CONTENTS
John James Audubon, Lover and Student of Birds i
Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College . . . .11
Cyrus H. McCoRM1CK, Inventor of the Reaper .... 20
Charles Goodyear, a Man who Persevered .... 30
William T. G.morton, Master of Pain 39
Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing-Machine .... 47
Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher 54
Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher . . .61
Cyrus W. Field, the Manwho Laid the Atlantic Cable. . .71
Jean Lou1s Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science . 79
Julia Ward Howe, Author of the "Battle Hymn of the Repub-
George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals 97
Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder 106
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone . .115
John Wanamaker, Founder of the Departme.nl Store . . .122
Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer 132
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross . . . 140
Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute . . 147
Augustus Saint-gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor . .157
James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads 168
John Muir, the Man who Loved Trees and Mountains . .179
Theodore Thomas, the Man who Taught us to Love Music . 189
Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor 199
Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter .... 208
Samuel Pierpont Langley, Inventor of the First Heavier-than-
Andrew Carnegie, the Man who Would not Die Rich . . 228
William Crawford Gorgas, who Made the Canal Zone
Robert E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole .... 245
Monday, June 1, 2009
European Hero Stories/Google Books
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Hero Stories of France/Google Books
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Butterfly Vivarium; or, Insect Home/Google books
The butterfly vivarium; or, insect home: or, insect home
By Henry Noel Humphreys
Published 1858
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Sep 8, 2006Main page.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual and Readers/Google Books
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Main page
Aldine Readers:
The Aldine Readers Primer(Internet Archives)
The Aldine Readers: Book One
The Aldine Readers: Book Two
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Rollo's Experiments/Google Books
Friday, May 22, 2009
The New Century Third Reader/Google Books
By Henry S. Tibbits
Edition: revised
Published by Rand, McNally, 1899
238 pages
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate Grades
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