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The Century for Young People
1901-1936: Becoming Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Experience the greatest moments of the 20th century with an accessible narrative that makes history come alive.
Adapted from the #1 national bestseller especially for young readers!
The twentieth century was a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history....
by Gail Herman, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.
Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing up in Alabama, Coretta Scott King graduated...
O is for Oklahoma
Written by Kids for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
See-My-State Alphabet Books have a subject related to that specific state for each letter of the alphabet. Children from schools or Boys & Girls Clubs in each state write the rhyming couplet for each subject. The book project is an opportunity for each participating child to learn to express themselves...
by Philip M. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
As the first to write a basic book in English on winemaking from the winemaker’s point of view, Philip Wagner has long been considered an authority on the subject, and his book *American Wines and Wine-Making *has become a bible for small producers and home winemakers in this country. Now, in...
by Eric LeGrand, Mike Yorkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Believe is the profoundly moving story of Eric LeGrand, the former defensive tackle for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights football team, who suffered a severe spinal cord injury and was left paralyzed by a crushing on-field tackle during a heated game with Army. A remarkable true account of a...
In the Shadow of Liberty
The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners?
Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery...
by Gretchen Woelfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and...
Streetcar to Justice
How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Starred reviews hail Streetcar to Justice as "a** book that belongs in any civil rights library collection" (Publishers Weekly) and "completely fascinating and unique” (Kirkus).*** *
An ALA Notable Book
Bestselling author and journalist Amy Hill Hearth uncovers the...
Schools of Hope
How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
When Booker T. Washington, the famed African American educator, asked Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and noted philanthropist, to help him build well-designed and fully equipped schools for black children, the face of education in the South changed for the better....
by Elizabeth Massie
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Without education, it's very difficult to make the most of your talents and abilities. But for much of American history, black people couldn't get an education. In many places it was against the law for slaves to learn to read and write. Despite this, many brave slaves found a way to learn. Some taught...
101 Amazing Presidential Facts
Fun trivia about every American President from Washington to Obama!
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Children's History Press presents: 101 Amazing Presidential Facts! Great presidential trivia and little known facts about the all of the United States Presidents!
This book is a great way to introduce the American Presidents to young readers. But this book isn't just for kids! ...
Marching to the Mountaintop
How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their...
by Dave Eggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way.
In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened—how a bridge...
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good
A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
A delicious new memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
A family history peppered with recipes, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good offers a humorous and flavorful tale spanning three generations as Kathleen Flinn returns to the mix of food...