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Marilyn Boyer

Meet unforgettable people and animals in the What a Character! Notable Lives from History series as you enjoy 10 real stories within each book!

Designed to be fun and engaging for students or anyone with a love for history, these readers include a fascinating focus on important, influential, and visionary people, along with heroic animal escapades! From scientists to famous women to war heroes and more, there is something of interest for everyone in this exciting series!

This volume, America's Famous Spies, is recommended for Grade 6 and up and includes:

 • Nathan Hale, Spy and Hero
 • Lydia Darragh, Quaker Spy
 • Washington's Spies, The Culper Ring
 • Anna Strong, Petticoat Spy
 • James Armistead Lafayette, Double Spy
 • Belle Boyd, Teen-aged Spy
 • Emma Edmonds, Nurse and Spy
 • Dabney and Lucy Walker, Clothesline Spies
 • The Ghost Army
 • The Navajo Code Talkers

Each book can be read in any order and includes colorful and fun images. Definitions are included to help readers learn the new words they will discover. Read for enjoyment or as an extension of your history, science, or language arts curriculum.

Will Stauff

New Leaf Publishing Group

What a Character! Notable Lives from History

America's Famous Spies

Meet unforgettable people and animals in the What a Character! Notable Lives from History series as you enjoy 10 real stories within each book!

Designed to be fun and engaging for students or anyone with a love for history, these readers include a fascinating focus on important, influential, and visionary people, along with heroic animal escapades! From scientists to famous women to war heroes and more, there is something of interest for everyone in this exciting series!

This volume, Extraordinary Animal Heroes, is recommended for Grade 6 and up and includes:

 • Seargeant Stubby, the dog
 • Murphy, the donkey
 • Balto, the dog
 • Cher Ami, the pigeon
 • Tipperary Beauty, the dog
 • Wojtek, the bear
 • Judy, the dog
 • Sergeat Reckless, the horse
 • Chips, the dog
 • Smoky, the dog

Each book can be read in any order and includes colorful and fun images. Definitions are included to help readers learn the new words they will discover. Read for enjoyment or as an extension of your history, science, or language arts curriculum.

Extraordinary Animal Heroes

America’s War Heroes: Notable Lives from History offers you a fantastic way to give your 4th – 8th grade level students reading practice. Student’s will enjoy the full color illustrations, maps, war stories, and easy-to-find vocabulary worlds and definitions. Exciting for anyone who enjoys American history, this reader features the life stories and accomplishments of 10 notable war heroes from the American War of Independence, The War of 1812, The Civil War, World War 1 and World War including: 

 • Ethan Allen
 • Daniel Morgan
 • Francis Marion
 • John Paul Jones
 • Stephen Decatur
 • David Farragut
 • John Mosby
 • Sergeant York
 • Jake Deshazer
 • Desmond Doss

Your students will be inspired by the remarkable accounts of these heroes to apply their God-given talents and opportunities to impact their generation and possibly change the world!

America’s War Heroes is part of the What a Character! Series which can be used alongside Master Books curriculum for reading practice or to dive deeper on topics that are of special interest to the students. The stories incorporate well with history, language arts, vocabulary words and definitions, as well as science, innovation, and cultural insights.

America's War Heroes

Inventors & Scientists: Notable Lives from History offers you a fun way to give your 4th – 8th grade level students reading practice. Delightful for anyone who enjoys history and science, this reader features 10 notable inventors and scientists from around the world.

 • Carl Linnaeus
 • Eli Whitney
 • Robert Fulton
 • Samuel F.B. Morse
 • Louis Pasteur
 • Alexander Graham Bell
 • Thomas Edison
 • Booker T. Washington
 • George Washington Carver
 • The Wright Brothers

Inventors and Scientists is part of the What a Character! Series which can be used alongside Master Books curriculum for reading practice or to dive deeper on topics that are of special interest to the students. The stories incorporate well with history, language arts, vocabulary words and definitions, as well as science, innovation, and cultural insights.

Your students will be inspired by Inventors & Scientists to apply their God-given talents and opportunities to impact their generation and

What a Character! Notable Lives from History

What a Character! Notable Lives from History

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