Robert Burleigh
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A young boy and his father travel in the darkness to wait for the oncoming train carrying the body of President Abraham Lincoln. The railroad train moved slowly until a lone voice shouted, "You're coming home, Abraham Lincoln. Home at last." The boy and his father went home again in the small black buggy with the wheels turning.
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Introduces young readers to a Sherpa boy named Tenzing Norgay who dreamed of climbing Mount Everest. Retells the long-neglected story of a little boy with an unimaginable dream, who refused to be daunted by the world's most revered mountain and who came to be known as the tiger of the snows by climbing to the top of Mount Everest with New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary.
4) Chocolate
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Traces the history of chocolate from a drink of the Olmec and Maya and later in Europe to its popularity around the world today.