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8 produkter
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E-bok
Engelska, 201291 kr
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Abraham Lincoln was born to a poor family on the American frontier. He was a hard worker, but he wanted more than a farmer’s life. As he learned about the issues of his day, Abe longed to be a lawmaker himself, so he ran for the state legislature. Soon the farm boy would become the brilliant orator and admired president who finally proclaimed freedom for all Americans. Focusing on Lincoln’s childhood and early manhood, this book explores the people and events that shaped one of America’s greatest presidents.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
231 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
400 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2009100 kr
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Unable to hear, Thomas Edison seemed unlikely to become one of America?s greatest inventors, but as a hardworking young man, he wasn?t about to let a minor obstacle stop him. He invented the phonograph, the incandescent lightbulb, and motion pictures, to name but three of his many important inventions. Eventually he was named ?the greatest living American.? Follow Thomas Edison?s life from losing his sense of hearing to losing his hard-earned fortune, in this intriguing biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.
E-bok
Engelska, 2009101 kr
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Tom Sawyer is among the best-known, most-loved characters in American fiction. As everyone remembers, he and Huck Finn camped on an island, got lost in a cave, and visited an old graveyard at midnight. These adventures were based upon the author''s real boyhood experiences along the Mississippi River. Trace Mark Twain''s life from 1835, when his birth was heralded by Halley''s Comet, to 1910, when the comet returned upon his death, in this fascinating biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.
E-bok
Engelska, 199076 kr
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A Newbery Honor BookCelebrating 50 years of a beloved classic!Nothing''s surprising in the North household, not even Sterling''s new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood memoir that continues to find its way into the hearts of readers fifty years later. This special anniversary edition includes the book''s classic illustrations restored to their original splendor, as well as a letter from the author''s daughter, and material from the illustrator''s personal collection."Everyone should knock off work, sit beneath the nearest tree, and enjoy Rascal from cover to cover."—Chicago TribuneFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
E-bok
Engelska, 2016180 kr
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The early life of George Washington in a new, illustrated edition of the classic biography by Sterling North.Before he became the first president of the United States, George Washington was a frontiersman. North fully captures the spirit of the man as he examines Washington's childhood in colonial Virginia, his work as a teenage surveyor, his early experiences as a member of the Virginia militia, and his many adventures before the American Revolution. The fully rounded man who emerges from this captivating portrait is uncomfortable with words, shy around women, completely at home in the outdoors, and deeply in love with the country he helped found.
Engelska, 2023
235 kr
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