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Name: Queen of the Falls
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
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Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Adventure

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Winner of the California Young Readers Medal award for Picture Book in 2014.

She could remember standing in a park near the falls, hypnotized by the sight and sound, and holding her father's hand as they took a walk that would lead them closer. That's what everyone wonders when they see Niagara . . . How close will their courage let them get to it?

At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune, decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before--she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. Come meet the Queen of the Falls and witness with your own eyes her daring ride!
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