Geographic Orientation/Pennsylvania
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Groundhog Day (New & Updated)
$18.99 Add to cartWill he see his shadow? Will spring come early or late? But most importantly– what does a groundhog have to do with the weather?
Every year on February 2nd, people all across the United States watch- Author: Gibbons, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0823450902
- Language: English
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Philadelphia: A Keepsake
$9.99 Add to cartFrom the founding of democracy in the Western Hemisphere to the modern skyscrapers, take a quick yet in-depth tour of America’s sixth-largest city. From Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell you will… [more below]
- Series: Keepsake #12
- Author: Gadomski, Michael P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0764357573
- Language: English
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Perennials for Pennsylvania
$19.95 Add to cartPerennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 89 different perennials, along with inform… [more below]
- Series: Perennials for . . .
- Author: Sternberg, Ilene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2007
- ISBN10: 1551054973
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0306926091
- Language: English
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K Is for Keystone: A Pennsylvania Alphabet
$18.99 Read moreFrank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, Gettysburg, Ben Franklin’s inventions, the Liberty Bell — there is so much to learn about Pennsylvania’s history and geography. K is for Keystone is a wonderful in… [more below]
- Series: Discover America State by State (Hardcover)
- Author: Kane, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1585361046
- Language: English
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Best Garden Plants for Pennsylvania
$16.95 Add to cartA handy little guide that will fit easily in your backpack on your next trek to the garden center. Over 1609 accounts feature the best plant varieties for Pennsylvania growing conditions in nine diffe… [more below]
- Author: Sternberg, Ilene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1551055228
- Language: English
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Forge
$8.99 Add to cart“One of the best novels they have ever read.” —Kirkus Reviews
Curzon navigates the dangers of being a runaway slave in this keenly felt second novel in in the historical middle grade The Seeds of Ame- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1416961453
- Language: English
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Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
$8.99 Add to cartThis classic tale from Newbery- and Caldecott-winning author and illustrator Robert Lawson tells the story of a little mouse–and his good friend, American icon Ben Franklin.
Did you ever wonder wher- Author: Lawson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 30, 1988
- ISBN10: 0316517305
- Language: English
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” –Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1501182218
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$30.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0306926075
- Language: English
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Straight Man
$18.00 Add to cartHilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 9, 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701907
- Language: English
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Thee Hannah
$19.99 Add to cartCatch a glimpse of pre-Civil War Quaker life as Hannah and her family go to Meeting and to market, host a gathering of Friends, and enjoy ice skating and other pastimes. Nine-year-old Hannah finds it
- Author: De Angeli, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: 11-Feb-00
- ISBN10: 0836191064
- Language: English
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Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables
$12.99 Add to cartAnne of Green Gables with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Garden on 81st Street, this full-color graphic novel moves Anne Shirley to modern-day West Philadelphia, w… [more below]
- Series: Classic Graphic Remix
- Author: Weir, Ivy Noelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0316459771
- Language: English
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The Johnstown Flood
$18.99 Add to cartThe stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnst- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0671207148
- Language: English
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Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
$19.99 Add to cartA stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nob… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 043977733X
- Language: English
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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
$24.99 Add to cart“Disturbingly lovely . . . The Resurrectionist is itself a cabinet of curiosities, stitching history and mythology and sideshow into an altogether different creature. Deliciously macabre and beautiful… [more below]
- Author: Hudspeth, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21, 2013
- ISBN10: 1594746168
- Language: English
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I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7): Volume 7
$5.99 Add to cartThe bloodiest battle in American history is under way . . .
It’s 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, … [more below]
- Series: I Survived #07
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 0545459362
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Stockings Spy
$16.95 Add to cartPhiladelphia 1777 is no place for the faint of heart. The rumble of war with the British grows louder each day, and spies for and against the Patriots are everywhere. No one is above suspicion. Still,… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1585362301
- Language: English
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Fever 1793
$8.99 Add to cartAn epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where “the plot rages like the epidemic itself” (The New York Times Book Review).
During t- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0689848919
- Language: English
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The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day… [more below]
- Series: Civil War Trilogy
- Author: Shaara, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643249
- Language: English
