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1) Castles
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English
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This children's history book has everything you need to know about medieval castles, including knights, jousting, sieges, drawbridges, and forts. Learn about castle design, from the earliest motte and bailey styles to stone fortresses and beautiful castles in Japan and India.
2) Castle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Cross-sectional drawings depict castle life and the strategies of attackers and defenders during a siege.
3) Castles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Children across the nation voted for the topic of this Fly Guy Presents book, and the winning topic was... CASTLES! On their latest field trip, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about castles: from drawbridges and dungeons to kings, queens, and knights! Award-winning author/illustrator Tedd Arnold brings nonfiction to life for beginning readers. There are humorous illustrations and engaging photographs throughout. The front cover features eye-catching holographic...
4) Castle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.
8) The castle
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Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be resolved.Like much of Kafka's work, The Castle is enigmatic...
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Ron Roy's A to Z animal mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel love to watch bats fly around their neighborhood after sunset. Nature is so cool! But then they hear an unnatural sound in Abbi's home! Is it a ghost? Or something scarier? With help from her trusty dog, Barkley, Abbi and her friends will shine a light on the truth!" --
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Magic tree house research guide volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.
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English
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"For more than 700 years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the Earls of Trelawney. By 2008, it is in a complete state of ruin due to the dulled ambition and the financial ineptitude of the twenty-four earls, two world wars, the Wall Street crash, and inheritance taxes. Still:...
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This adventure story has everything you could want: a handsome good guy, a pretty heroine, some bad guys, sword fighting, revenge, romance, and of course a happy ending, along with "rodents of unusual size." Join Westley (the plucky farm boy), Buttercup (the beautiful young maiden), Inigo Montoya (the driven, embittered swordsman), Prince Humperdinck (the scheming villain), and many other strange and unusual characters in this swashbuckling tale of...
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Deverill chronicles volume 2
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English
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In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory ́ to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack ÓLeary ́ the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Ms. Frizzle and her student Arnold follow an underground passage beneath Craig's Castle Shop and find themselves in the middle of a siege of a 12th century English castle, they learn a great deal about both castles and the Middle Ages.
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