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Circle of Magic is an enthralling fantasy quartet series appealing to both boys and girls. Herein are the adventures of Daja, Briar, Tris, and Sandry, four children who are brought to Winding Circle Temple for training in crafts and magic. Outcasts in their own homeland, in the magical place called Winding Circle Temple, Daja, Briar, Tris, and...

One of the best reviewed books of 1994, the Newbery author's novel follows five generations of one African-American family from Africa to a South Carolina plantation through the Civil War, the end of segregation and beyond, to a moving finale, when a young drug-addicted cousin is brought home to the glory field for a day of reunion and renewal....

As the Civil War rages, Amelia's Maryland town is beset by divisions. Even she and her best friend Josh disagree. Amelia vows not to take sides, until the Confederate troops march into town...led by Josh's uncle....

Presents alphabetically arranged entry words accompanied by synonyms, antonyms, and derivations....

From the very first Admiral of the Navy, David Farragut, to the baseball hero Roberto Clemente, to pop star Gloria Estefan, this book tells the captivating stories of ten important and influential Hispanic-Americans who have made and are making history....

For fans of that slippery author Lemony Snicket, Book the Ninth is here, and it's completely (but wonderfully) dreadful. When the Baudelaire Orphans finally make it out of Count Olaf's car trunk (from Book the Eighth), they wind up at the horribly perilous Caligari Carnival. Trying to avoid capture but desperate to find out more information about a...