Geographic Orientation/Virginia
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Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague
$7.99 Add to cartAn orphaned Chincoteague colt restores happiness to his new owners in this beloved horse story from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry.
Movie men have come to Chincoteague to film the annua- Author: Henry, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1416927840
- Language: English
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Stormy, Misty’s Foal
$7.99 Add to cartIn this classic story by award-winning author Marguerite Henry, Misty fights for her life and the life of her unborn foal.
A raging storm slashes across Assateague and Chincoteague islands. Water is- Author: Henry, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1416927883
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
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Charlotte Spies for Justice: A Civil War Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Charlotte lives on a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, where the American Civil War is raging. All around her, citizens and the Confederate army are fighting to protect slavery — the … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496584465
- Language: English
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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
$18.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly framed . . . fascinating . . . a well-told story of discovery, conquest, business, and politics.” — Kirkus Reviews
Four centuries ago, and 14 years before the Mayflower, a group of men–l
- Author: Woolley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 006009057X
- Language: English
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Misty of Chincoteague
$24.99 Add to cartMarguerite Henry’s beloved story of a wild horse’s gentle colt–winner of a Newbery Honor
On the island of Chincoteague, off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland, lives a centuries-old band of wild po- Author: Henry, Marguerite
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1481435280
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0062677284
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story
$9.99 Add to cartGhost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 3, 2019
- ISBN10: 035809755X
- Language: English
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The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park
$19.95 Add to cartA history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary.
- Author: Lambert, Darwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0911797572
- Language: English
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Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and
$31.95 Add to cartThis richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organiz… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Spira, Timothy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0807871729
- Language: English
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The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
$17.99 Add to cartMiddle school can be a battlefield… From award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang comes a poignant and timely take on prejudice, bullying, and claiming our own histories, perfect for fans of Front … [more below]
- Author: Shang, Wendy Wan-Long
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: 7-Jun-22
- ISBN10: 133867885X
- Language: English
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
$22.99 Add to cartBright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examini
- Author: Walker, Sally M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0822571358
- Language: English
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The Known World
$17.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power
Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through t
- Author: Jones, Edward P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0060557559
- Language: English
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
$23.99 Add to cartThis epic work–named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times–tells the story of the
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337766
- Language: English
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As Brave as You
$8.99 Add to cartKirkus Award Finalist
Schneider Family Book Award Winner Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book In this “pitch-perfect contemporary novel” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Coretta Scott King – John- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1481415913
- 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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Barakah Beats
$7.99 Read more“This book about friendship and faith absolutely sings.” — Buzzfeed
Perfect for fans of The First Rule of Punk or Save Me a Seat, this is a sweet, powerful, and joyous novel about a girl who finds her
- Author: Siddiqui, Maleeha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1338702084
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
$9.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe
- Author: Carbone, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0142409324
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartBased on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062742469
- Language: English
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Misty of Chincoteague
$8.99 Add to cartMarguerite Henry’s beloved story of a wild horse’s gentle colt–winner of a Newbery Honor
On the island of Chincoteague, off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland, lives a centuries-old band of wild po- Author: Henry, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 1416927832
- Language: English
