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Describes and explains different aspects of weather, including clouds, storms, rainbows, tornadoes, and forecasting.

An abridged, graphic novel adaptation of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Includes pop-up illustrations.

Follows a young girl's experience during World War II in a fictional journal about the author's own memoirs in 1939 England.

When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.

Presents facts about life on the famine ship "Dunbrody"--which carried Irish immigrants to America during the Great Famine in the nineteenth century--through fictional journal entries by a nine-year-old boy, and features pop-up illustrations, lift-flaps, and other props.

Contains two stories in which George Corwin and Elizabeth Putnam, young friends living during the Salem witch trials, share their individual perspectives on the events.

Presents a full-color illustrated tour of the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen that shows many of the treasures discovered by Dr. Howard Carter in 1922.

Invites the reader to find out which art dealer is responsible for forged paintings which are about to be sold.

See-through pages, illustrations, and easy-to-follow text teach young readers about the wild and dangerous exploits of pirates.

Introduces the rules and strategies of chess, as well as its history and some of the great players and matches.