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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Free Press Office in 1854 in 165 pages; Subjects: HistoryLibrary catalogs; Academic libraries; Public libraries; History / United States / General; History / United States / State ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. ... Read more

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Lists Vermont's libraries with special or unusual collections.Includes activities that teach students about the importance of libraries, the Dewey Decimal System, the Library of Congress, Books-in-Print, contributions of Andrew Carnegie and how and why to use libraries.Listing includes many libraries with special collections about Vermont.Free teacher's guide. ... Read more

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The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons to all corners of the globe!With the Rookie Read-About Geography series, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the world… and right in their own backyards! ... Read more

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Too short!
An extremely well written and well researched book, all together very readable and engrossing. Indepth account of the four troublesome years of Rudyard and Carrie Kipling while in Vermont. All in all, however, a too short book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Put kids on the road to discovery with the series that brings the United States to life, state by exciting state. It's all here - the history and geography, the people and culture, plus colorful photos, entertaining extras, easy recipes, and so much more. For an armchair tour of the U.S., from sea to shining sea, nothing beats these marvelous books - except maybe a tour guide! ... Read more

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Great book - informative with lots of pictures!
As an adult, I enjoyed reading this book!When this book arrived, my teenage daughter flipped through as I cooked dinner and read out interesting facts aloud, prefaced by,"Hey, Mom, did you know. . .?"Later, I read through it with my nine-year-old, who loved it.The text is straightforward, the facts about the state and some of its illustrious citizens are very interesting.Also a plus, there are illustrations on almost every page.This is a fun way to learn a lot about Vermont!

Taking a tour of Vermont, the Green Mountain State
Naming the original thirteen colonies is not as difficult as naming the twelve apostles, but not as easy as listing the seven dwarves or Santa's reindeer.When you name the thirteen colonies you probably proceed from north to south, beginning with Maine and ending with Georgia.The only problem is that Maine was not one of the original colonies (it was considered part of Massachusetts).The other state that was not a colony is Vermont, which was a disputed area claimed by both New York and New Hampshire.The area was part of the New Hampshire Land Grants on 1749, but in 1770 the king of England rules the land officially belonged to New York, at which point Ethan Allen and the 200 man militia known as the Green Mountain Boys threw out the "Yorkers" and took over the region by force and established a small republic.Eventually Vermont would become the first state to join the original thirteen and the rest is history, and is covered by Jan M. Czech in Chapter Three.

The brief opening chapter of this From Sea to Shining Sea, Second Series volume introduces young readers to the Green Mountain state.Czech asks "What comes to mind when you think of Vermont?" and in addition to the Green Mountain Boys there is Ben and Jerry's Ice-Cream and "leaf peepers."Chapter Two, The Land of Vermont, divides the state into six distinct land regions: the Champlain Valley, the Northeast Kingdom, the Vermont Piedmont, the Vermont Valley, the Taconic Range, and the Green Mountains.The chapter also looks at the Rivers and Lakes, and Climate, thereby covering the basic geography of Vermont.Chapter Three, Vermont Through History, covers the details on how the state went from being a land grant and a republic to a state, covering how major events in American history from the Civil War to the Great Depression and World War II affected its people.

Chapter Four, Governing Vermont, briefly looks at the three branches of government, and devotes most of its time to giving us a tour of the capital city of Montpelier.A map of downtown Montpelier shows you the relative location of major sites, so that you can get from the Vermont State House to Observation Tower in Hubbard Park.The final chapter looks at The People and Places of Vermont, including the jobs in manufacturing, tourism and agriculture that dominate the economy.The final thing Czech does is takes us on a tour of Vermont, so you can get an idea of what there is to visit in each section of the state.This is also the chapter where you get the book's recipe, which is for Sugar on Snow (to wit, maple syrup on clean, fluffy, freshly fallen snow; a Vermont tradition is to take a bite of the sugar on snow and then a bite of a dill pickle...).

Throughout the book you will find tidbits of information in little sidebars devoted to Famous Firsts (first postage stamp used in the U.S. was made in Brattleboro), Who's Who in Vermont? (Perry Merrill, patron saint o the ski industry), and lots of Extra! Extra! Entries (General Stark's victory at the Battle of Bennington was a turning point in the Revolutionary War).When you get to the back of the book you will find a two-page Vermont Almanac, which gives you quick access to basic facts on things like geographic center, number of counties, and state symbols.This is followed by a Timeline that covers Vermont State History on the top and U.S. History on the bottom, a Gallery of Famous Vermonters such as Chester a. Arthur and Norman Rockwell, and a Glossary of terms from "agriculture" to "tyrannical."Finally, Czech provides some web sties, books, and addresses that you can turn to For More Information if you are researching Vermont for school.All things considered the books in the From Sea to Shining Sea series are turning out to be more history books than geography books, which is fine with me, but if you really need something that focuses more on geographical details this might not be your first choice as a reference book. ... Read more

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Annotations to the Laws of the State of Vermont Title 21. Labor and Title 22. Libraries and History. ... Read more

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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Thirteen-year-old Iris loves the northern Vermont hills where she and her family own a farm, but when their barn burns down and her father is injured in a logging accident, the family decides ... Read more

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Great title!
AS LONG AS THERE ARE MOUNTAINS is another classic from Natalie Kinsey Warnock.Her beautiful use of language and lyrical voice make this a delight to read out loud.

Great
This book was very good. I couldn't put it down.

Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award - Yr. 2000
This title was appreciated by enough students and professional librarians and teachers to make the Year 2000 list of nominees for Illinois' childrens' choice award named after the Illinois author Rebecca Caudill. This book is best for grades 4-8. ... Read more

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Chapters: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Haskell Free Library and Opera House, Goodrich Memorial Library, Alice M. Ward Library, Bennington Free Library. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is located in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. It is significant due to the construction, the American landscape paintings and books from its original role as a public library and free art gallery, and funding by Horace Fairbanks, manufacturer of the worlds first platform scale. The art collection contains a number of Hudson River School paintings. This unaltered building retains a strong, Victorian (French Second Empire) flavor of the 19th century. It is one of about ten athenaeums in the United States. When the library opened, the collection consisted of 9,000 books selected by bibliographer William F. Poole. In 1873, Fairbanks added a small art gallery. This is now the oldest gallery still in its original form in the United States. The walls and floor are black walnut. The art gallery is lighted naturally from an arched skylight in the ceiling. Cases on two sides of the room contain art books in tooled leather bindings. Gilt-framed paintings are displayed. One hundred works of art are displayed. Besides originals by American artists, there are also copies of European masterpieces. The major part of the collection is by American and European artists from the late eighteenth century to the middle nineteenth century. Hudson River School painters include Asher B. Durand, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Gifford, a Luminist painter, James and William Hart pastoral landscapes with cattle. Western scenes are portrayed by Samuel Colman and Worthington Whittredge. Dominating the room is a canvas, ten by fifteen feet, of the Domes of Yosemite, by Albert B...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14377564 ... Read more

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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his lif ... Read more

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Preacher's boy review
I thought that Preacher's boy had an intresting first couple chapters but after that i started to notice it got boring.i think there should be more of a plot in the book.it is basically about 2 boys named robbie and willie who pull pranks and get in trouble. After Robbie meats Zeb and Vile it gets a little better but I still think it could of been a little more well-written.

Preacher's Boy by Katherine Paterson
I picked out this book to read because of the author. I had read 'Bridge to Terabithia' two years before for school and I loved it, so I figured that anything else written by Katherine Paterson would be just as good. I was right. I started the book because of the author, and I finished it because of the story.
Preacher's Boy is about a young boy in 1899 who thinks that the world will end with the year. His father is the town preacher, but Robbie, the boy, thinks that the ten commandments are too confining. He thinks that since he can't do wat he wants while he is a Christian, he will become an atheist. Unfortunantly, he doesn't know what they are areally called, so he spends the entire book calling himself an apeist.
This book is filled with laughs and funny situations, many of which made me laugh out loud. I would definantly recommend this book to anyone that wants a good laugh. This book is probably best for ages 7-14, although I think that anyone would enjoy it.

No More Pranks
I thought this book only disurved 3 stars because I really didn't get into it thatmuch.I almost just sat it down and found a new book after reading the first chapter of it.I mean all that was in it was that Robbie and his friend Willie were basically in some kind of prank pulling contest.Them against the Weston boys.It sounded really boring.Anyway it ended up getting a little bit more interesting when Robbie's bigger brother Elliot, who is kind of mest up in the head, gets lost on the forth of July.Then the next day when Robbie and his friend Willie were supposed to be going fishing Willie Grandma has him working.So Robbie to there secret hideout and that's when he finds so poor people living in their now. That's all I can really tell without telling the end.

One of the Great Authors
A book by Katherine Paterson is always difficult to judge.The main reason is because she has written a truly great book--"Bridge to Terabithia"--and a number of others that are nearly as great.Because of this, there is a tendency to be a tougher judge of her books as if every new novel should be a masterpiece.Fortunately, Ms. Paterson lives up to the challenge time after time.

I am constantly amazed at how well Ms. Paterson is able to write in the voice of young person, creating very realistic characters.Though a bit older myself these days, I can identify very well with Robbie as he stuggles with the difficulties in his life.I am particularly impressed with the depiction of Robbie's relationship with his father and how he struggles to understand him.Also, the difficulties he has in being himself while at the same time trying to be the son of a good man who has an important and public job in his hometown.

Though I don't think any good book is really gender-specific to an active reader, I can see where young boys would find this book speaking to them a little more.Still, I would encourage anyone with a love of good literature to read this book.It is a stong depiction of an interesting character.

A great read for all ages
At first I was skeptical about this book because in the beginning of the book Robbie and Willie just play pranks on the other townspeople. I soon realized I was wrong. It was jam-packed with action,adventure,love and care. It made me feel as though I was joining Robbie on his big adventures. This book is thrilling and is a must-read. I would recommend this book to anyone of any age. This was a swell read. ... Read more