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Primary Source Detectives eBook Series

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  • Who Traveled to the Moon?

    by Neil Morris ...
    Series series Primary Source Detectives
    How do we know about the select band of astronauts who traveled to the Moon? How were they selected and what happened to them? This book shows how we know about the astronauts and their experiences from primary and other sources. It includes information on some historical detective work that has taken place, using documentary and oral evidence, that has enabled historians to piece together ... Read more

    S$ 36.83 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Two Years Before the Mast

    The writings of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. telling the story of his experiences as a sailor on a two-year sea voyage. A thrilling tale of the early days of California, and of the terrors of sailing around Cape Horn in winter. ... Read more

    S$ 4.13 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Sacajawea

    Guide to Lewis and Clark

    by Della Rowland ...
    As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree warriors and taken to be their slave. Several years later, she was bought by a French fur trader to be his wife. Then, in 1804, when she was only sixteen years old, Sacajawea met Lewis and Clark.Carrying her infant son on her back, Sacajawea helped guide the famous team of explorers through the ... Read more

    S$ 8.71 SGD

  • Who Was Marco Polo?

    by Joan Holub, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers ... Read more

    S$ 6.31 SGD

  • Who Was Charles Darwin?

    Illustrated by Nancy Harrison ...
    Series series Who Was?
    As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would ... Read more

    S$ 7.84 SGD

  • A Horn for Louis

    Louis Armstrong - as a kid!

    Series series A Stepping Stone Book
    How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn?Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a ... Read more

    S$ 7.84 SGD

  • Cloth Lullaby

    The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

    by Amy Novesky ...
    Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault ...
    Award-winning creators, Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault, present a picture book biography of a beloved artist in Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois.Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high.Just as spiders spin and ... Read more

    S$ 17.32 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les Paul

    Guitar Wizard

    by Bob Jacobson ...
    Series series Badger Biographies Series
    This addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers tells the story of Les Paul, the legendary “Wizard of Waukesha,” who pioneered the solid body electric guitar, multi-track recording, and many other musical inventions. Fascinated since boyhood with musical technology, the young Les moved from experimenting with his mother’s player piano and phonograph to developing his own amplifier ... Read more

    S$ 12.09 SGD

  • The Silk Road

    Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route with 20 Projects

    by Kathy Ceceri ...
    Illustrated by Kathy Ceceri ...
    Series series Build It Yourself
    From Roman times until the Age of Exploration, the Silk Road carried goods and ideas across Central Asia between two major centers of civilization, the Mediterranean Sea and China. In The Silk Road: Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route, readers ages 9–12 will learn about the history, geography, culture, and people of the Silk Road region.Marco Polo was just one of many who set out on the ... Read more

    S$ 14.70 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Moon and Back

    NEW REVISED EDITION TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MOON LANDINGWho were the Honeysuckle Creek mob? And how did they assist the first moon landing?When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. No, not at Parkes - the movie 'The Dish' got it wrong. They were from ... Read more

    S$ 14.60 SGD

  • Their Skeletons Speak

    Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World

    On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?Within weeks, scientific testing yielded astonishing news: the bones were more than 9,000 years old! The skeleton ... Read more

    S$ 12.09 SGD

  • Lost in Outer Space

    The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13

    by Tod Olson ...
    Series series Lost
    For middle grade space enthusiasts, the amazing true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster.April 13, 1970: Two hundred thousand miles from Earth and counting, an explosion rips through Jim Lovell's spacecraft. The crippled ship hurtles toward the moon at three times the speed of sound, losing power and leaking oxygen into space. Lovell and his crew were two days ... Read more

    S$ 11.22 SGD