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The Adventures of Nanabush: Ojibway Indian stories
By Sam Snake, Emerson S Coatsworth, David Coatsworth, Francis Kagige. 1979
During the 1930s, the stories told by the elders of the Rama Ojibway Band were compiled and translated into English.…
These 16 stories tell of Nanabush, one of the most powerful, and most mischievous, spirits of the Ojibway world. Grades 4-7 and older readers. 1979.Harry Potter et l'enfant maudit (Harry Potter.)
By Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, J. K Rowling, Jean-François Ménard. 2016
Cette pièce met en scène les nouvelles aventures d'Harry Potter dix-neuf ans après la fin de la saga de J.K.…
Rowling. Désormais employé au Ministère de la magie, marié et père de famille, Harry Potter est débordé. De plus, son passé se manifeste par l'entremise de son plus jeune fils, Albus Severus, en butte avec le lourd héritage familial. Père et fils doivent s'unir pour affronter les ténèbres. Années 4-7 et plus. 2016. Titre uniforme: Harry Potter and the cursed child.19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
By Naomi Shihab Nye. 2002
Over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the…
United States. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands. She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. 2002.Locomotion
By Jacqueline Woodson. 2003
When Lonnie Collins Motion - Locomotion - was seven years old, his life changed forever, and now at eleven, his…
life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn't so bad after all. Grades 4-7. 2003.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.Every thing on it: poems and drawings
By Shel Silverstein. 2011
A collection of more than one hundred previously unpublished poems from the author of "A Light in the Attic" and…
"Where the Sidewalk Ends". Includes "The Lovetobutcants," "Garlic Breath," "Nasty School," and "The Kid-Eating Land Shark." Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2011.Harry Potter and the cursed child: Parts one and two (Harry Potter)
By Jack Thorne, J. K Rowling, John Tiffany. 2016
The eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story presented on stage. It was…
always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. Bestseller. Grades 4-7. 2016.Blood and germs: the Civil War battle against wounds and disease (Medical Fiascoes)
By Gail Jarrow. 2020
Explores the science and gruesome history of US Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers,…
doctors, and nurses. Jarrow reveals battlefield rescues, surgical techniques, treatments, and patient care, celebrating the men and women of both the North and South who volunteered to save lives. For grades 5-8. 2020Conspiracy: Nixon, Watergate, and Democracy's Defenders
By P. O’Connell Pearson. 2020
Author of Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America (DB 98293), explores President Nixon's contentious…
time in office, the Watergate scandal, and the people who helped protect our Constitution. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2020Cyrus Field's big dream: the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
By Mary Morton Cowan. 2018
Recounts the life of Cyrus Field (1819-1892), a wealthy, industrious man of fragile health who pioneered the first transatlantic cable.…
Details how Field's unwavering determination to enable instant communication between North America and the United Kingdom came to fruition in 1866. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018Countdown: 2979 days to the moon
By Suzanne Slade, Thomas Gonzalez. 2018
Told in free verse. Recounts the story of the American effort to land the first man on the moon in…
1969, and the eleven Apollo missions it took to get them there. For grades 4-7. 2018Fighting for the forest: how FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps helped save America
By P. O’Connell Pearson. 2019
Recounts the history behind President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal program, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and how this social program…
provided jobs for impoverished young men who built and improved hundreds of state and national parks. For grades 5-8. 2019Capsized!: the forgotten story of the SS Eastland disaster
By Patricia Sutton. 2018
An account of the events that led up to the SS Eastland capsizing in the Chicago River on July 24,…
1915. Chartered to take Western Electric Company employees and their families to a picnic in Michigan City, Indiana, the event instead cost the lives of 844 passengers. For grades 5-8. 2018A poem for Peter: the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Steve Johnson, Lou Fancher. 2016
A poetic celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of the Caldecott Medal winner The Snowy Day…
(DB 43471). Recounts Keats's life growing up in Brooklyn as a son of struggling Polish immigrants and his dream of becoming an artist. For grades 2-4. 2016Locomotive
By Brian Floca. 2013
Illustrates what it was like to ride from Omaha to Sacramento on the new cross-country railroad in the mid-1800s. Describes…
the sounds of the engine, the work of the crew, and the changing scenery. Caldecott Medal. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2013Brothers at bat: the true story of an amazing all-brother baseball team
By Steven Salerno, Audrey Vernick. 2012
Recounts the 1938 formation of a semi-pro baseball team by the twelve Acerra boys in their New Jersey hometown. Describes…
the team's disbanding when six brothers went off to fight in World War II, and its revival after their return. For grades K-3Bomb: the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
By Steve Sheinkin. 2012
Award-winning author recounts the history of the atom bomb and the race among the United States, Nazi Germany, and the…
Soviet Union to build--or steal--the deadly weapon during World War II. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012Abraham Lincoln: a nonfiction companion to Magic tree house #47: Abe Lincoln at last! (Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker #25)
By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca, Natalie Pope Boyce. 2011
In this companion to Abe Lincoln at Last! (DB 76124), Annie and Jack present biographical information on President Lincoln. They…
discuss what it was like to live in a log cabin and describe Abe's growing up poor, first in Kentucky and later in Indiana. For grades 2-4. 2011The notorious Benedict Arnold: a true story of adventure, heroism, & treachery
By Steve Sheinkin. 2010
Biography of Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) discusses his birth in colonial Connecticut, heroism in George Washington's revolutionary army, marriage to a…
prominent Philadelphian, switch in allegiance to the British army, and death in disgrace and exile. Cites primary sources. For grades 6-9. YALSA Award for Nonfiction. 2010Frederick Douglass: a noble life
By David A Adler. 2010
Biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became an author, lecturer, and advisor to President Lincoln.…
Discusses slavery in America and Douglass's escape, emancipation activities, support of women's rights, world travels, and writing career. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2010