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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"It's London, 1666. It's a hot, dry summer. A small fire starts in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane. Soon the city of London is burning and the fire-fighters can't stop the fire. People are running from their houses down to the River Thames. But how does the fire begin and who can stop it? What is the King of England doing to help?"--Page 4 of cover.
3) Chocolate
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses, hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself. And of course you can eat it. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolates with gold on the outside -- everybody loves chocolate.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
For a child in the great city of Venince in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveler could die. One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the...
5) Hollywood
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood -- nine big white letters against the Hollywood Hills. Every year millions of people come from all over the world and look up at this famous sign. Why do they come? They come to see the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and to see the hand and foot prints outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre. They come to visit Universal Studios, and perhaps to see a movie star or two. Most of all, they come to be in the most famous place in movie history...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Simplified edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's a good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. 'It's a good place for love,' said th ehippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury. And San Fransico is still a good place - to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just...
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