Deborah Hopkinson
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
xxix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.These American and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
xxi, 341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north. Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that the people...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
In-depth analysis of the D-Day invasion at the end of World War II, including detailed accounts of planning, execution, and important players.
"The WWII invasion of Allied troops into German-occupied Europe, known as D-Day, was the largest military endeavor in history. By the time it occurred on June 6, 1944, Hitler and the Axis powers had a chokehold grip on the European continent, which the Allies called "Fortress Europe." Behind enemy lines, Nazi...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned about the world and how to find out what he didn't know....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of America's little known war-within-a war -- that of the "silent service" -- U.S. submarine warfare during World War II.
12) Steamboat school
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1847 St. Louis, Missouri, when a new law against educating African Americans forces Reverend John to close his school, he finds an ingenious solution to the new state law by moving his school to a steamboat in the Mississippi River. Includes author's note on Reverend John Berry Meachum, a minister, entrepreneur, and educator who fought tirelessly for the rights of African Americans" --
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. Includes author's note about Dickens' life and some of the books he wrote.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When a pioneer family moves west the mother misses home so much that she will not even name the new baby until her daughter thinks of just the right thing to cheer her up.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
264 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Bertie Bradshaw of London and American Eleanor Shea team up to decipher a coded notebook and stop a double agent from revealing secrets about the upcoming D-Day invasion.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.
20) Annie and Helen
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the relationship between Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, and includes excerpts from letters written by Annie about her work with Helen.