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1) Castles
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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.
7) 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.
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"If you could build a castle, what kind would it be? A military fortress? A fairy castle? A home for royalty? Explore Make a Castle Your way! to imagine your own castle. Learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and collaborate with other books in the Super Simple DIY series to make your own spaceship, dinosaur, and more!"--Back cover.
12) Life in a castle
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Describes different kinds of castles, their purposes, how they were built, and what it was like to live in a castle, looking particularly at the roles played by women and children.
13) Castle
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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CASTLE combines colorful animation with live-action documentary sequences to tell the story of a 13th-century Welsh castle. Author David Macaulay, who wrote and illustrated the best-selling book of the same title, leads viewers on a castle tour, explaining its cultural and sociological significance and its architectural design. Detailed animation dramatizes the building of the castle and portrays the lifestyle of the early inhabitants.
14) Franken creepy
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Velma's great-uncle has left her a creepy old castle...and the famous Frankencreep monster! The girl detective has spent her life proving ghosts and ghoulies are fake. Could her family's monster be the end of everything she believes in?
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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.
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The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an intelligent teenager who tells the story via her personal journal.
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239 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm
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English
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The doors of centuries-old French chateaux are thrown wide open in this sumptuous photographic cross-country tour. Readers will gain entry to a stunning array of stylish private homes within beautiful historic buildings,- each one representing very different approaches to décor and preservation.
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