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Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps
by Andrea Warren
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Provides the story of the Holocaust survivor who at fifteen was placed in a Nazi concentration camp and was forced to overcome intolerable conditions in order to not become a victim of Hitler's Final Solution
2001; 146 p.; isbn:0060007672 More Information |
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10,000 days of thunder : a history of the Vietnam War
Philip Caputo
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It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest in Vietnam under French ...
2005; 128 p.; isbn:0689862318 More Information |
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Secrets of a Civil War submarine : solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
Sally M. Walker
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Presents the history of the Civil War submarine the H.L. Hunley, including the construction, mysterious sinking, recovery, and restoration
2005; 112 p.; isbn:1575058308 More Information |
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The real Benedict Arnold
by Jim Murphy
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Provides a comprehensive look at the life of this American army officer and hero who turned traitor and the motives that led him to do what he did through letters, memoirs, and political documents from that period in history
2007; 264 p.; isbn:0395776090 More Information |
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Good brother, bad brother : the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
James Cross Giblin
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Through a review of their family and an examination of their political ideologies, a biography presents a look at two brothers who stood on opposing sides during the Civil War and how one, John Wilkes Booth, became the infamous assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
2005; 244 p.; isbn:0618096426 More Information |
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Hole in my life
Jack Gantos
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The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer
2002; 199 p.; isbn:0374399883 More Information |
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Hole in my life
Jack Gantos
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The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer
2002; 199 p.; isbn:0374430896 More Information |
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Escape from Saigon : a Vietnam War orphan becomes an American boy
Andrea Warren
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Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio
2004; 110 p.; isbn:0374322244 More Information |
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The golden dream of Carlo Chuchio
Lloyd Alexander
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Naive and bumbling Carlo, his shady camel-puller Baksheesh, and Shira, a girl determined to return home, follow a treasure map through the deserts and cities of the infamous Golden Road, as mysterious strangers try in vain to point them toward real treasures
2007; 306 p.; isbn:0805083332 More Information |
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Anne Frank and me
by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
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After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation
2001; 291 p.; isbn:0399233296 More Information |
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The tequila worm
Viola Canales
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Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."
2005; 199 p.; isbn:0375840893 More Information |
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With every drop of blood
[by] James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
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While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier
1994; 235 p.; isbn:0385320280 More Information |
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