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Around the World in 80 Days: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartTake a thrilling whirlwind trip around the world with Phileas Fogg! When Fogg—a man of habit whose every day is just like the one before—makes a bet that he can circle the globe and be back in his (read more)
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Red Badge of Courage: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartA searing tale of fear and courage, set during the Civil War, but more powerful today than ever. A young man enlists in the Union Army, but nervously wonders how he will react to the blood, violence, and death of (read more)
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Read moreSet in a richly rendered 15th century Paris, Victor Hugo’s powerful drama focuses on a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda, the two men (including an obsessed and manipulative priest) who love her, and the pitiful hunchback Quasimodo who tries (read more)
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The Iliad: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartThis high interest/low vocabulary retelling of The Iliad introduces young readers to Homer's thrilling epic tale. Set during the siege of Troy, and complete with duels, battles, larger-than-life characters like Achilles, and the famed Greek gods, (read more)
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The Sign of the Beaver
USD $8.99 Add to cartAlthough he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no (read more)
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Treasure Island: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartPirates, buried treasure, and action aplenty—that's what's served up in this fine story, mates, and kids will eat it up. After Jim Hawkins finds the map to a mysterious treasure, he sets sail in search of the fortune. Little (read more)
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Pyramid
USD $11.95 Add to cartWonder what you are going to draw for the main lesson today? Does your student need inspiration for their main lesson book? The images in this book are stunning and easy to copy or be inspired by. And for those (read more)
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Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad: Hardcover
USD $19.99 Add to cartA young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the stranger's fearful eyes weigh upon her (read more)
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A Reverence for Wood
USD $12.95 Add to cartIf you want to infuse your student with an understanding of why natural materials are so special, just be sure there's a copy of this book available for browsing in your classroom or home. This refreshing, delightfully written, and magnificently (read more)
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A School as a Living Entity
USD $40.00 Add to cartFor those interested in the dawning and journey of Western Civilization, and for those teaching fifth grade or tenth grade in a Waldorf school, this is a rich collection of insights into those cultures that (read more)
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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
USD $9.95 Read moreFor 30 centuries, before Greece's glory or Rome's grandeur came into being, mankind played out a drama along the banks of the Nile which for sheer splendor, mighty works, and significance to civilization, is unique. The lure of Egyptology is as (read more)
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Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends
USD $15.95 Add to cart"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we (read more)
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Ancient Greece
USD $17.95 Add to cartA retelling of Greek mythology and ancient history as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 5-6 (age 10-12). This welcome new addition to Charles Kovacs' work contains legendary stories of mythical heroes and historic figures from the dawn of western civilization. (read more)
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Ancient Rome
USD $19.95 Add to cartAnother priceless treasure by Charles Kovacs! This book—written especially for Waldorf teachers—includes the most exciting stories of Roman history: the founding of Rome; early battles with Carthage and Hannibal; Julius Caesar and the conquests of Gaul and Britain; (read more)
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28-Days: Moments in Black History: Hardcover — OUT OF PRINT
USD $18.99 Add to cartEach day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman (read more)
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Child’s Introduction to African American History: Hardcover
USD $19.99 Add to cartJabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom to reveal a fact-filled history of African American history through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more. You'll follow the road to freedom beginning with the slave trade and the (read more)
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At the Hot Gates: An Account of the Battle of Thermopylae
USD $7.50 Add to cartWe welcome this outstanding reader for the Waldorf Grade 5 curriculum! Between the excitement of the story and the resounding history that lies behind it, any student (an their teacher!) will be hungry to get to read more. It’s (read more)
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Biographies for Eighth Grade: Twenty Remarkable Men and Women
USD $12.00 Add to cartSusan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty remarkable men and women from around the world including: John Harrison - 18th Century England Eli Whitney - 18th/19th Century United States Sequoyah - 19th Century North America Simon Bolivar - 19(read more)
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Bhagavadgita
USD $5.00 Add to cartThe Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the (read more)
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Civil War Stories
USD $4.00 Add to cartNewspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of (read more)
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Medieval Literature: A Basic Anthology
USD $7.00 Add to cartThese excerpts from works of philosophy and religion, history and drama, fiction, poetry, and other genres introduce the many facets of medieval literature. The anthology opens with chapters from The Confessions of St. Augustine, the first Western biography (read more)
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The Iliad
USD $5.00 Add to cartProbably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer's Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds (read more)
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Little Women
USD $10.00 Add to cartLovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become (read more)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
USD $17.00 Add to cartHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important (read more)
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Chapters from Ancient History
USD $20.00 Add to cartFor those interested in the dawning and journey of Western Civilization, and for those teaching fifth grade or tenth grade in a Waldorf school, this is a rich collection of insights into those cultures that (read more)
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D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths: Hardcover
USD $29.95 Add to cartThis hardcover edition gives this book the reverence it deserves and will be in your family for many years to come! A cornerstone of the Waldorf fourth grade curriculum path. Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and (read more)
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D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
USD $19.95 Add to cartA cornerstone of the Waldorf fourth grade curriculum path. Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and magic while learning important cultural history in this beloved classic collection of Greek mythology. Now updated with a new cover and (read more)
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History: Hardcover
USD $16.99 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated board book edition of instant bestseller Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History showcases women who changed the world and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire big dreams.
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Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartAn important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and (read more)
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Famous Men of Ancient Rome – Lives of Caesar, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Others
USD $8.95 Add to cartThis is one of the most interesting histories ever written with young students in mind -- it would make an unbeatable reader during the 6th Grade Roman History block -- or for any young person who finds him- or herself (read more)
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Farmers of Forty Centuries – Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan
USD $16.95 Add to cartI have carried a copy of Farmers of Forty Centuries around with me for almost 40 years and go back to it regularly, each time finding something new, useful, and insightful that I somehow hadn't really seen in all (read more)
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Gaze Both Ways: A Seventh and Eighth Grade Social Studies Curriculum: Digital Edition
USD $10.00 Add to cartGaze Both Ways: A Seventh and Eighth Grade Social Studies Curriculum *7 Continents *7 Race Migrations *Age of Chivalry *History of Play, Games & Sport *Biographies *National History 1788 – 1888 *Anthropology *Medieval (read more)
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Geron and Virtus
USD $10.00 Add to cartGeron and Virtus written by master storyteller and Waldorf teacher Jakob Streit, is a remarkable book. It is a story about two boys during the Roman campaign to conquer the Germanic tribes. It was out of this Roman/(read more)
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Gilgamesh – Man’s First Story
USD $24.95 Add to cartThis is a powerful - and powerfully beautiful - retelling of one of the oldest stories known to humanity. Bernarda Bryson tells this story with simplicity and grace - retaining as she does the uniquely Sumerian view of the world, (read more)
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Gilgamesh the Hero: Hardcover
USD $17.50 Read moreThis is one of the oldest stories in the world, and it's about things that still matter to us today: friendship, fame, courage, happiness. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are friends -- best friends. Together they can work wonders, fight monsters, brave (read more)
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Number the Stars
USD $8.99 Read moreIn Lois Lowry's unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel, a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.
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The Golden Goblet
USD $8.99 Add to cartRanofer wants only one thing in the world: to be a master goldsmith like his beloved father was. But how can he when he is all but imprisoned by his evil half brother, Gebu? Ranofer knows the only way he (read more)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
USD $17.99 Add to cartVoted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.
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Helen and Penelope
USD $12.00 Add to cartDr. Mees brings the imaginative pictures of Greek mythology, especially the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, to new life. The author examines these images as expressions of the development of consciousness within the evolving human being. This book is (read more)
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History Through Stories — TEMP
USD $40.00 Read moreWe no longer carry this series as the way the books are printed make them very hard to ship without damage. Every time we have tried to re-order from the publisher the books have come to us damaged.