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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
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Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War is Anita Lobel's gripping memoir of surviving the Holocaust. A Caldecott-winning illustrator of such delightful picture books as On Market Street, it is difficult to believe Lobel endured the horrific childhood she did. From age 5 t... »
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Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman and Langston Hughes are two African American leaders that I admire most, and for the life of me, when I went to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, I paused and wondered why I'd never read a book about her but had read several on him. Then it hit me: History books avoid so many important African American female leaders and slaves. You get the... »
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Life in Prison
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I work with inner-city teenagers, lots of whom already knew who Tookie Williams was and an unfortunate number of whom think prison is "cool." It's fascinating to watch them as they grab this little book because of the cover, thinking they're in for an adventure ride telling them how prison is this great place to make one tougher and stronger, and then ... »
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The Wright Brothers (Landmark Books)
This work, for the young reader, is an excellent additon to one of the best series for young people over the past fifty years. This is the story of the W... »
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Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
Let the others wear the ruffled shirts and ride grandly on horseback; Sam Adams, Massachusetts rebel leader, was a plain and plain-spoken fellow, both in ... »
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Night; with Connections
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and ... »
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