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In this book you’ll hear Abe Lincoln tell the story of his own life, from the day he was born in a small log cabin, right up to the day he was shot by an assassin’s bullet.

The world's most famous athlete that ever was, heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali. From the moment young Ali wandered into a Louisville, Kentucky youth boxing program, the sport became his life.

This is a story about one of the most horrible diseases that people have ever known. In the year 1665, a disease called plague, swept through the city of London, England.

The story takes place in 1894. Harvey Cheyne, a rich, young boy of fifteen, falls off a steamship hundreds of miles out to sea. He is rescued by a fishing boat.

The book describes Charles Darwin's passion for natural history, his famous South American voyage on the HMS Beagle, and his later years of stubborn research and startling discovery.

This story takes place at Christmastime in 19th century London, where the lower class suffers and the rich and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge couldn't care less about the poor, and he hates Christmas.

This book tells the story of Cleopatra, from her first heady encounter with Caesar, through her bearing of Caesar’s and Antony’s children, to her suicide.

Imagine you are 18 years old and your friends send a letter to the police that says you belong in prison! This is a faithful retelling of Alexandre Damar's The Count of Monte Crista

This book traces Flo Jo's life from her childhood in a strong but poor family in Watts, Los Angeles, through adolescence as a shy, eccentric high school scholar and athlete.

This book documents an amazing woman's struggle to end American slavery. There may be no more heroic, historically revealing, and amazing life of the 19th century than that of Harriet Tubman.

This book combines exciting history with simple science to tell the story of hurricanes and their impact on people.

In this first-person narrative, he tells his own story right up through his funeral in 1890. Intelligent, proud, generous, and humorous, Mariano Vallejo recounts the founding of California and welcome

An exciting retelling of Julius Caesar, a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator, Julius Cesar, his assassination and its aftermath.

This is the story of a young man trying to learn the true meaning of pride and courage from an older man who sometimes seems to have a bit too much of both!

This book tells the story of Howard Carter’s career, including the moment when he finally opened the solid-gold coffin and saw the amazing golden mask of Egypt’s "boy king" pharaoh.

This book provides a background on 3,000 years of ancient Egypt and its rulers.

Lord Jim is one of Joseph Conrad’s greatest novels. This thrilling novel is about all young people’s need for self-forgiveness and self-acceptance when they fall short of their own ideals.

A retelling of the classic Mark Twain stories The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, A Curious Dream, and A Story from Life on the Mississippi.

This book tells how Mexican-American Cesar Chavez inspired millions and changed the lives of American farm workers.

Through lively, moving dialogue, this narrative retells the dramatic and tragic story of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays.

A worthy retelling of Mark Twain's classic.

In thirteen years as a running back for the NFL Chicago Bears, Walter Payton (1954-1999) established himself as possibly the greatest football player ever.

This book portrays the Lewis and Clark expedition as it might have appeared to Sacagawea herself. It describes how she might have felt about joining the expedition to and from the Pacific Coast.

This book excerpts Anne's diary, but it also puts the diary in its historical context. Readers will finish this book having gained an understanding of the events of World War II Europe.

This is a story of mystery and horror that has been scaring readers for more than 100 years. It is a story that makes us think about the good and bad inside of each of us.