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981) Genealogy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines the requirements for earning the Boy Scout merit badge in genealogy, including information on how to complete an ancestry chart.
982) The mask that sang
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Cass and her mom have always stood on their own against the world. Then Cass learns she had a grandmother, one who was never part of her life, one who has just died and left her and her mother the first house they could call their own. But with it comes more questions than answers: Why is her Mom so determined not to live there? Why was this relative kept so secret? And what is the unusual mask, forgotten in a drawer, trying to tell her? Strange dreams,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 atlas (223 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Explore our ancestors' hometowns! This book guides you through American history by looking at the United States' sixteen most populous and historically influential cities, including New York, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Each section features beautiful, full-color maps published at crucial points in each city's history, tracing its growth and development from its founding to the early 1900s. Use the maps to find your ancestor's home,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
x, 178 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cuando a una estudiante se le asigna el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma. La estudiante aprende cómo la gente que dice haber nacido sobre el agua sobrevivió."--
Stymied...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a...
987) En las profundidades
Author
Series
39 clues volume 6
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Amy and Dan cross the oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.
989) Más allá de la tumba
Author
Series
39 clues volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Amy Cahill and her brother Dan rush off to Egypt on the hunt for the 39 clues that lead to a source of unimaginable power.
"Traicionados por sus primos y abandonados por su tío, Amy y Dan Cahill lo tienen muy complicado para encontrar la siguiente de las 39 pistas. Se encuentran en Egipto donde, sorprendentemente, reciben un mensaje de su difunta abuela. Pero, ¿pueden fiarse de sus palabras o, de nuevo, alguien les ha tendido una trampa?" --From...
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