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The Wild, Wild Southwest!

Junior Explorer Series Book 3

by Jeff Corwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

It's a fascinating adventure with nature - this time in New Mexico! Budding naturalists Lucy, Benjamin, and Gabe are back and camping in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico! Readers can join the fun as these kids explore the diverse desert ecosystem. This is the third book in Jeff Corwin's young...
by Carol Ann Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008

Anne Frank?s diary changed how the world saw the Holocaust? this book will change how you see Anne Frank. Beginning with Otto Frank?s idyllic childhood, follow the family?s journey from its proud German roots through life under Nazi occupation to their horrifying concentration camp experiences. Interspersed...
by Jennifer Allison
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009

When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.?s International Spy Museum, she finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln?s son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy?s ?dead drop? of classified...

They Had a Dream

The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass...MalcolmX

by Jules Archer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996

Traces the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
by Jean Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1998

In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government,...
by Jacqueline Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about...
by Jacqueline Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2002

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good-bye to her grandmother and her best friend, Margaret. Blue Hill is beautiful, and challenging-but...
by K. L. Going
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

Gabriel King is afraid of everything: spiders, the rope swing over the lake, andmost of all, going to fifth grade. Frita Wilson, his best friend, decides Gabriel needs some liberating from his fears, so they make a list and plan to tackle each one. But one of the reasons Frita is so determined...
by Mildred D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. **For David Logan, a time of distress means taking the higher road. ** During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with their neighbors,...
by Melissa Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009

Keena Ford is so excited to go on a field trip to the United States Capitol with her second-grade class! At school, she is running for a spot on the student council, and on the field trip she's going to meet a real live U.S. representative. The only trouble is, mean Tiffany Harris keeps teasing Keena...
by Mike Lupica
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

#1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica makes his return to the basketball court! There's a reason teammates call him "True." Because for basketball phenom Drew Robinson, there is nothing more true than his talent on the court. It's the kind that comes along once in a generation...

Jefferson's Sons

A Founding Father's Secret Children

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

This story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up and tells his story, the contradiction between slavery...
by Jacqueline Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010

**Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newbery Honor winning author** Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set...

The Promise

The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust

by Barbara Powers
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006

This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother growing up during the Second World War, caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis. Written specially for children, Eva describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind and loving parents and her older brother...
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