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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A middle-grade nonfiction book cowritten by Marc Aronson and historian/food writer Dr. Paul Freedmand with contributors Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie, Tatum Willis, Amanda Palacios, and David Zheng. American food and, by extension, American identify is much broader than the phrase "as American as apple pie." In a series of meals that take readers from pre-1492 through today, the text explores this country's identify and history through the lens of...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt and shame who must go to war to free himself....
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"A powerful true story about three Black girls who courageously integrated a New Orleans school on November 14, 1960, told by award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson"--
4) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two thirds of whom had never seen a play before. At its helm was an unassuming theater...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xii, 296 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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A best-selling and award-winning maritime historian presents this true story of five castaways-three British sailors and two Americans-abandoned on the Falkland Islands for a year and a half during the War of 1812, showing individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously as they struggle to survive.