F. N Monjo

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1) The drinking gourd

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

I Can Read Level 3
An I can read history book

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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, CD + Book, eAudiobook

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The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party — or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?

2) The drinking gourd: a story of the Underground Railroad

Author

Monjo, F.N

Series

I can read book

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad.

3) Indian summer

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

I can read history book

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1968]

Language

English

Description

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A frontier woman struggles to save her cabin and four children from the Indians.

4) King George's head was made of lead

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Pub. Date

[1974]

Language

English

5) The porcelain pagoda

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Viking Press

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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As she sails on her father's ship from New York to China in the early nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Kitty describes in her journal the places she sees, the events occurring in them, and the romantic conclusion to the trip.

6) Slater's mill

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.

7) Prisoners of the scrambling dragon

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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A 13-year-old cabin boy describes his first voyage aboard a Yankee trading vessel, bound for China during the 1820's, carrying furs, silver, ginseng, sandalwood, and opium.

8) The Jezebel wolf

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1971]

Language

English

Description

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Israel Putnam recounts for his sons the hunt for the dangerous Jezebel wolf whose pelt covers their bed.

9) Poor Richard in France

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Pub. Date

[1973]

Language

English

10) Me and Willie and Pa: the story of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

c1973

Language

English

Description

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President Lincoln's youngest son recounts his own and his family's experience during their four years in the White House.

11) Gettysburg: Tad Lincoln's story

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Windmill Books

Pub. Date

c1976

Language

English

12) A namesake for Nathan: being an account of Captain Nathan Hale by his twelve-year-old sister, Joanna

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Pub. Date

c1977

Language

English

13) Letters to Horseface: young Mozart's travels in Italy

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Puffin Books

Pub. Date

1991

Language

English

Description

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While journeying through Italy in 1770, fourteen-year-old Mozart relates his experiences in letters to his sister.

14) La osa menor: una historia del ferrocarril subterráneo

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Harper Arco Iris

Pub. Date

1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

Español

Description

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When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad.

15) The Vicksburg veteran

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1971]

Language

English

Description

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Twelve-year-old Fred Grant relates what he saw when he accompanied his father, General Grant, on the campaign to capture Vicksburg.

16) The one bad thing about father

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

I can read history book

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1970]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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An easy-to-read fictional account of the adventures of the Roosevelt children while their father was President.

17) The secret of the Sachem's Tree

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

Break-of-day book

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc

Pub. Date

[1972]

Language

English

Description

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The Wadsworth children must abandon their plans for Halloween mischief to help prevent the King's representative from taking away Connecticut Colony's charter.