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The Great Inventor: The Story of Thomas Edison    by Waln Brown
Price: $4.99 USD. 4600 words. Published on January 5, 2011. .

This biography of examines Edison's childhood learning problems and severe hearing loss. Despite these difficulties, Edison learned the joy of reading, especially about science and technology, which he continued to build upon throughout his life, resulting in his invention of the light bulb, phonograph and many other discoveries.
The Pony Express: A History Just for Kids!    by BookCaps
Price: $2.99 USD. 8560 words. Published on December 3, 2012. .

The Pony Express was established as a rapid courier service between the East and the West, from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento, California. There were tens of thousands of people living and working in California that wanted news of what was happening in the East and who wanted to send letters and packages to friends, family members, and business partners living back east. But you may wonder:
Good Night Old Man    by George Campbell
Price: $8.99 USD. 71990 words. Published by Dream Write Publishing  on December 28, 2012. .

Today, we still have radio and telephone – each very much advanced but telegraph collapsed in Canada on May 30th, 1972, and our beautiful language died. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, I worked and conversed in Morse code every day. For those born after 1972, Morse code was an electrical language people used to communicate with one another all over the world. I left it in the final decade of its life.