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One of the most tender, touching, and withal gracious stories that we ever remember to have read. A dear little book for our children. We are not ashamed of having shed tears while reading it; in fact, should have been ten times more ashamed if we had not. The sweet portrait of the poor child Jessica is a study, and old Daniel is perfect in his own way. ~The Sword and TrowelSku: 9780921100638
Jessica’s First Prayer
By: Hesba Stretton$9.95 -
When Hugh Glass was brutally attacked by a grizzly, his good friend Jim was deeply saddened, and he was one of two men who chose to stay with the old mountain man until he died so that they could bury his body.Sku: 9780898249415
Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
By: Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
Trappers in the early 1800s worked in parts of the West that were still unmapped. Jim Bridger was out trapping with a fur company when he was chosen by the company owner to follow a river to see where it led. To Jim’s delight, it led straight to a salty body of water. Had he just found the river to the Pacific Ocean that explorers had been searching for throughout the centuries since North America was discovered?Sku: 9780898249187
Jim Bridger’s Sea of Salt (Dyslexic Font)
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
From the Publisher: Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a story of vision and bravery, fierce determination, and tragic martyrdom. Diane Stanley's extraordinary gift to present historical information in an accessible and child-friendly format has never been more impressive, nor her skillful, beautifully realized illustrations (here imitating medieval illuminated manuscripts) more exquisite.Sku: 9780064437486
Joan of Arc
By: Diane Stanley$14.99 -
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No one had taken a wagon train all the way to California when John Bidwell decided to do it.Sku: 9780898249439
John Bidwell’s Wagon Trip to California
By: Royal Fireworks Press Publication$15.95 -
Here is the story of one of the most influential early locomotives in America, the John Bull. Imported from England in 1831, this amazing workhorse was used to help build and then run the first successful New Jersey railroad, the Camden & Amboy Railroad, which reduced from days to hours the journey for freight and passengers between New York and Philadelphia.Sku: 9798888180631
John Bull
By: David Weitzman$20.50 -
In 1842, the U.S. government sent John Fremont out to map the rest of the unknown West. He couldn’t have done it without the help of the famous mountain man Kit Carson. Trappers and explorers had mapped much of the land, but Captain Fremont’s job was to fill in the gaps so that the map of America was complete. It was hard, dangerous work, but the job was too important to let anything stand in the way.Sku: 9780898249194
John Fremont and Kit Carson Map the Westward Trails (Dyslexic Font)
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$15.95 -
Meet the youngest person to fight in the civil war in this middle grade historical fiction novel, part of the Based on a True Story series. Do you have what it takes to run off and join the army, leaving your family behind? That's what John Lincoln Clem, a nine-year-old boy living in Ohio, does as the American Civil War rages on. In 1861, Johnny sneaks onto a train filled with men from the 3rd Ohio Union Regiment, determined to fight for his country. Taken in by the older soldiers, Johnny becomes a drummer boy - not to mention the youngest person to serve in the war. Living a soldier's life, Johnny experiences the brutalities of battle and the hunger and illness in between. Eventually he is captured by the Confederates, imprisoned, and then sent home a hero.Sku: 9781250104335
John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer
By: E. F. Abbott$13.50 -
John Muir loved the land. Born in 1838, he was a writer, a scholar, an inventor, a shepherd, a farmer, and an explorer. But above all, he was a naturalist.Sku: 9780763662141
John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist
By: Kathryn Lasky$11.99 -
This is the story of a new country-of the days when Captain Arthur Phillip was made first Governor of New South Wales and began to build the town of Sydney, It is a sequel to ‘John of the Sirius’, wherein John traveled with his family to Botany Bay.Sku: 9781922348067
John of Sydney Cove
By: Doris Chadwick$22.50 – $36.95 -
This story brings to life one of the most important voyages of history, the sailing of the First Fleet, under Captain Phillip, to Botany Bay. With John and his sister, Sue, we share the excitements and hopes of the long sea-way, the sights and sounds of strange ports, the adventures of a little family following Papa, an officer of the Marines, to the then-unknown end of the earth. John gets into many a scrape with his dog, Gyp; he goes on exploring expeditions with Captain Phillip; he sees the ‘hopping animal’ of which he has heard so much, and manages to be in the midst of everything interesting as any boy would. The story is skillfully woven of true facts and incidents which might have happened to a boy lucky enough to sail as John sailed with Captain Arthur Phillip.Sku: 9781925729894
John of the Sirius
By: Doris Chadwick$22.50 – $36.95 -
John Phillips had come to America from Portugal, and he was working at the U.S. Army’s Fort Phil Kearney as a woodcutter when Native Americans attacked the soldiers guarding the fort, putting the lives of everyone inside the fort at risk.Sku: 9780880929448
John Phillips Saves Fort Phil Kearney
By: Royal Fireworks Press Publication$15.95 -
California was the land of promise, and John Sutter dreamed of building a colony there that would become a thriving, prosperous settlement that he himself would govern.Sku: 9780898248661
John Sutter’s Golden Dream
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$15.95 -
The great events of Revolutionary Boston as seen through the shrewd eyes of an observant fourteen-year-old boy.As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War.Sku: 9780547614328
Johnny Tremain
By: Esther Forbes$12.50 -
Sample This is an inspiring children’s biography of the great musician Haydn. The story winds its way into the hearts of all music loving children: for it is told with all the understanding, sympathy and appreciation that its two inspired authors have to give. Be inspired by the musical beginning of the boy who later played before kings in palaces, and who has left us some of the most beautiful music ever written.Sku: 9781933573007
Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95