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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
100 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But when the harsh winter ended, the soldiers had survived, and marched away from Valley Forge more determined than ever.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 177 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
8) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
10) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she's thrilled ... until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it's an Asian play with Asian...
13) Falling short
Author
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
14) One crazy summer
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
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