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George Washington for Kids
His Life and Times with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
George Washington comes alive in this fascinating activity book that introduces the leader to whom citizens turned again and again-to lead them through eight long years of war, to guide them as they wrote a new Constitution, and to act as the new nation’s first executive leader. Children will learn...
Titanic
A Survivor's Story & the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they...
by Amelia Earhart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.
I Was Born a Slave
An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance,...
The Girl with Three Legs
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Having experienced firsthand the horror of female genital mutilation (FGM), Soraya Miré reveals the personal violation and immense challenges she overcame. This book is at once an intimate revelation, a testament to the empowerment of women, and an indictment of the violent global oppression of women...
The President Is a Sick Man
Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president’s...
A Kid's Guide to Latino History
More than 50 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Featuring hands-on activities, games, and crafts that introduce children to the diversity of Latino culture, this guide teaches them about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Hispanic American history. Broken down into sections covering descendants from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico,...
Cuba and Its Music
From the First Drums to the Mambo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising,...
Post Black
How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities-such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members...
Big Black Penis
Misadventures in Race and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Being black and male is serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often hilarious truths about black men. This raw and...
Verdi for Kids
His Life and Music with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Giuseppe Verdi dominated Italian opera for 50 years, and his operas are performed throughout the world today. Verdi for Kids offers young readers an accessible, behind-the-scenes peek into the exciting world of opera and traces Verdi’s path to fame, delving into the great composer’s childhood,...
Joni on Joni
Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Few artists of the 20th century are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive...
Real James Dean
Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best––actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists––shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they...
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
A Story of Bulimia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by never...