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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) Castles
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Discusses the structure and functions of castles and describes everyday life inside a medieval castle.
3) Castles
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
4) Castles
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Discover Series Books for Babies,Toddlers Every princess needs a castle and every knight needs a fortress to defend. In this Discover Series book, young children can learn the proper terminology for castles and explore the crisp and clear photographs with simple titles. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture Books are a great way to introduce new images, words and ideas to kids. The Discover Series Books feature a large photo...
5) Castles
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Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples.
At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent...
6) Castles
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How far would you go to build a castle in the sky? Haunted by the sins of others, twenty-year-old Maggie teeters on the edge of either revelation or madness. Once a frightened child seeking refuge from desert storms, she now embraces them with open arms, desperately searching for solace in the chaos. As schizophrenia clouds her mind with delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behavior, society deems her actions "unacceptable." Trapped in a world...
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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This book describes the design, construction, and uses of various types of castles in Europe and in other parts of the world.
Looks at the process of building different types of castles in medieval Europe, including information about obtaining a license to build, working with wood and stone, obtaining laborers and materials, and building in defense and attack features.
10) Clan Castles
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Themes: Friendship, Gaming, Teamwork, Bravery, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Tween, Emergent Reader, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. After playing for months, Jake and Kyle have finally reached the end of Clan Castles-Level 99. King Nojra will be their...
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Themes: Gaming, Teamwork, Fiction, Tween, Emergent Reader, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Jake and Kyle were sucked into their video game. Virtual reality became reality. They had to beat Level 99 or else they would be stuck in the game for good! And...
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Traveling north into Scotland, we'll show you a handful of the more than 70 castles that dot the beautiful countryside. You'll see one of the oldest and youngest of these special houses and spend a good deal of time around Stirling. It is not only home to one of Scotland's most famous castles but is a town important to the history of this region and this country"--Container.
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Fortress volume 86
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64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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