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"Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject.
It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier accounts of the war, but its brilliant analysis and balanced tone left critics floundering, changed the course of U.S. military history by renewing interest in our obsolete...
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Heirs of Acadia volume 1
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American Erica Langston faces her worst enemy, falls in love, and is forced to confront her lack of faith when she travels to England to collect on outstanding debts and save her family's business at the outbreak of the Revolution.
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American girls collection. Caroline, 1812 volume 5
American Girl.Caroline volume 05
American Girl 1812 volume 05
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 5
American Girl.Caroline volume 05
American Girl 1812 volume 05
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 5
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[2012]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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680L
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"Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama gives her a terrible order: burn the shipyard to the...
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American girls collection. Caroline, 1812 volume 6
American girl.Caroline volume 06
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 6
American girl 1812 volume 06
American girl.Caroline volume 06
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 6
American girl 1812 volume 06
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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670L
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"A letter arrives for Caroline, asking her to come help her uncle Aaron and cousin Lydia on their new farm for the summer. Although Caroline is reluctant to leave her family, she's eager to lend a hand. So when she suspects that a thief has been stealing much-needed food from the farm, Caroline helps keep watch to guard against the uninvited visitor. Then she makes an unexpected discovery--and learns that some things are not as simple as they seem....
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American girls collection. Caroline, 1812 volume 2
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 2
American Girl.Caroline volume 02
American Girl 1812 volume 02
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 2
American Girl.Caroline volume 02
American Girl 1812 volume 02
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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690L
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Caroline and her mother make a dangerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard.
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American girls collection. Caroline, 1812 volume 4
American Girl 1812 volume 04
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 4
American Girl.Caroline volume 04
American Girl 1812 volume 04
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 4
American Girl.Caroline volume 04
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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680L
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When Caroline and her friends Rhonda and Seth go out fishing, they sight an American supply boat being pursued by a British warship, and Caroline must come up with a daring plan to notify the town and save the boat.
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Hannah Bonner returns to her family's mountain home in 1812 without her husband or her son, unable to talk about the tragic loss she has endured, and unaware that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge yet--saving her younger brother from the British who hold him captive.
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American girls collection. Caroline, 1812 volume 1
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 1
American Girl 1812 volume 01
American Girl.Caroline volume 01
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 1
American Girl 1812 volume 01
American Girl.Caroline volume 01
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[2012]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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690L
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When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
11) Bright captivity
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The story begins as the War of 1812 is in its final days. Ann Couper, the spirited young daughter of a prominent St. Simons family, is attending a house party at Dungeness, an estate on nearby Cumberland Island, when a contingent of British Royal Marines, invades the island.
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The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison's generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson....
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Lord's stunning account of the War of 1812, when a young nation won its independence once and for all At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. Great Britain blocked American trade, seized its vessels, and impressed its sailors to serve in the Royal Navy. America's complaints were ignored, and the humiliation continued until James Madison, the country's fourth president,...
16) The War of 1812
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IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 6
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An account of the strategies, personalities, and results of America's second military conflict with Great Britain, the "unnecessary" and "impractical" War of 1812.
17) 1812
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American story 1800-1860 volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 32
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From the New York Times bestselling author David Nevin, comes an astonishing historical novel of the War of 1812.
The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific- or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolly Madison, and Andrew and Rachel...
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 6
Aubrey / Maturin volume 6
Aubrey/Maturin volume 6
Aubrey-Maturin volume 06
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Aubrey / Maturin volume 6
Aubrey/Maturin volume 6
Aubrey-Maturin volume 06
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"A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But before...Didn't find it?
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