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The world at her fingertips: the story of Helen Keller (Other or No Series)
By Joan Dash. 2001
A biography of the woman who overcame her disabilities to be an inspirational public figure. Discusses the cause of Helen…
Keller's blindness and deafness, her determination to lead a useful life, and the importance of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, throughout Helen's life. Grades 5-8. 2001.Three wishes: Palestinian and Israeli children speak
By Deborah Ellis. 2004
Growing up apart in a world of bombs, bullets, removals, checkpoints, and curfews, 20 Israeli and Palestinian young people talk…
about how the situation has affected them. The reactions range from traumatized, angry, hateful, and despairing, to hopeful and brave. The wide range of voices shows the connections between warring neighbours despite the distances that separate them. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2004.Ann and Seamus
By Kevin Major. 2003
In 1828, off Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, 17-year-old Ann Harvey, her fisherman father and younger brother came upon the wreck…
of the Despatch, an Irish immigrant ship. Ann's courage and strength at the oars of the rescue boat were largely responsible for the saving of more than 160 passengers stranded amid the raging storm. In this poetic retelling, the author portrays the shy young woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.A child's day (Historic communities)
By Bobbie Kalman. 1994
Between waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, pioneer children John and Emily enjoy a full…
day of simple pleasures and hard work. We watch them go to school, do their chores, celebrate a birthday, and attend a country fair. At every turn, we learn what they wear, what they eat, what stories they read, and what toys they play with. Grades 3-6. 1994.Fort life (Historic communities.)
By Bobbie Kalman, David Schimpky. 1994
Her special vision: a biography of Jean Little (Contemporary Canadian biographies)
By Barbara Greenwood, Audrey McKim. 1987
As a young girl, Jean Little was teased by the other children because of her visual impairment. Today, Jean is…
the award-winning author of over a dozen books for children. Grades 5-8. Grade I braille. 1987.Inside the Alamo
By Jim Murphy. 2003
An overview of the struggle between the Texan settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a…
detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo. The author's inside book separates fact from fiction as often as possible. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.Years of dust: the story of the Dust Bowl
By Albert Marrin. 2009
Discusses causes and effects of the environmental and social disaster that swept across the Great Plains in the 1930s during…
the Great Depression. Explains that farmers and ranchers unwittingly caused conditions that led to the dust storms and the loss of the land they had settled. Grades 5-8. c2009.Worst of friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the true story of an American feud
By Suzanne Jurmain. 2012
Describes how their different political views caused friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to become rivals, until they learned to…
set aside their differences for the sake of their friendship. Grades 2-4. 2012.Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years…
between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. Includes profiles of notable women in the struggle. Gardes 5-8 and up. 2011.Witches!: the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem (National geographic)
By Rosalyn Schanzer. 2012
Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. After two girls exhibit…
strange behavior, the colonial town's doctor concludes their symptoms are the result of witchcraft. Even today, the chilling events of this period remain one of the most disturbing passages of U.S. history. Grades 5-8. 2012.West Coast Chinese boy
By Sing Lim. 1979
Votes for women!: American suffragists and the battle for the ballot
By Winifred Conkling. 2018
On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination…
of an almost eighty-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. This volume covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention; to Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president; to Sojourner Truth and her famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman'"; to Alice Paul, who was arrested and force-fed in prison, Conkling combines thorough research with page-turning storytelling to bring the battle for the right to vote to vivid life. It also explores the movement's often powerful, sometimes difficult relationship with the temperance and abolition movements, and takes unflinching look at some of the uglier moments in the fight for the women's vote. For junior and senior high readers. 2018.Vikings (History in a hurry #Vol. 2)
By John Farman. 1997
Victorians (History in a hurry #Vol. 3)
By John Farman. 1997
Tudors (History in a hurry #Vol. 4)
By John Farman. 1997
Tom Sullivan's adventures in darkness
By Tom Sullivan, Derek L. T Gill. 1976
A successful young man, who has been blind since birth, tells of his life as an entertainer, composer, and amateur…
athlete. Children’s version of "If you could see what I hear." Grades 5-8. 1976. Uniform title: Adventures in darknessTo be a slave
By Julius Lester. 1995
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from…
the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Junior and Senior High. 1995.Here is the exciting true story about the "unsinkable" Titanic. Dramatic accounts, white-knuckle suspense, and fast-paced action of how the…
world's biggest, safest ship sank on its maiden voyage. Grades 4-7. 2011.Three little words: [a memoir]
By Ashley Rhodes-Courter. 2008
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from…
school to school, and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds. For junior and senior high readers. 2008.