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Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. |
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Diego: Bigger Than Life |
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The life and work of the artist Diego Rivera is told through
chronological poems that capture salient points in his life. |
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Couloumbis, Audrey and Akila Couloumbis |
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War Games: A Novel Based on a True Story* |
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What were once just boys' games become matters of life and
death as Petros and his older brother Zola each wonder if,
like their resistance-fighter cousin, they too can make a
difference in a Nazi-occupied Greece. |
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Hoose, Phillip |
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice* |
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Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many
others, this account of an important civil rights figure
dates back to the Montgomery bus boycott and court case that
would change the course of American history. |
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Kelly, Jacqueline |
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Evolution of Calpurnia Tate* |
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate
(the only girl with six brothers) is instructed to be a lady
by her mother, and studies the natural world with her
grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important
discovery. |
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Lourie, Peter |
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Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale
Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series) |
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Lourie skillfully describes the delicate three-way
relationship that exists among the Inupiat
of Alaska, the bowhead whales, and the scientists who are
there to collect data and study the animals. Lourie follows
one particular scientist, John Craighead George, as he goes
about collecting the necessary data. |
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Mann, Charles C. |
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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 |
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This study of Native American societies is adapted for
younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. |
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Metselaar, Menno & Ruud van der Rol |
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Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the archives
of the Anne Frank House* |
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Photos of the famous diary, school pictures, and the rooms
in which she lived with her family while hiding from the
Nazis for two years are compiled in this moving biography
about the short life and enduring spirit of this young girl
and talented writer. |
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Murphy, Jim |
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Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting* |
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Depicts the first-hand experience by officers and soldiers
on both sides during World War I when a cease-fire was
declared on Christmas Day in No Man's Land on the Western
front. |
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Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux |
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Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves,
Deputy U.S. Marshal* |
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This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former
slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in
the area that was to become Oklahoma. |
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Partridge, Elizabeth |
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Marching For Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You
Grow Weary* |
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This book recounts the three months of protest that took
place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march
from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights
and help African-Americans earn the right to vote. |
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Smelcer, John |
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Great Death |
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As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness
brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth
century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make
their way south in hopes of finding someone alive. |
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St. George, Judith |
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Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr |
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Describes briefly the lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron
Burr who became orphans, both grew up to be brilliant, and
both served as heroes in the American Revolution. They could
not get along and after a historic duel, Hamilton died. |
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Stead, Rebecca |
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When You Reach Me* |
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A twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of
a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous
source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. A
real puzzler! |
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Walker, Sally M. |
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial
Maryland |
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Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are
excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown,
Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area
in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the life of a teenage
boy and others. |
