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Across the wide dark sea: the Mayflower journey
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Thomas B. Allen. 1995
A fictionalized account of a young boy's trip to America with his family on the Mayflower in 1620. Once there,…
the settlers begin making a new life for themselves. For grades K-3Daughters of the fifth sun: a collection of Latina fiction and poetry (Big Bks.)
By Judy Mullican, Ken Carroll. 1995
Short stories and poems by the "godmothers" of Latina writing and later-generation authors divulge the Latina experience. They relate being…
women in a machismo- oriented culture, living in a minority group in the United States, learning the power of language, and dealing with everyday lifeThe fields of home
By Ralph Moody. 1993
In 1912, after the death of his father, the author and his family move from Colorado to Massachusetts. Not used…
to life in town, fourteen-year-old Ralph somehow finds himself catching trouble at every turn and is sent to live on his grandfather's farm in Maine. The old man is stubborn and crotchety, and Ralph cannot wait to leave. But his satisfaction in meeting the needs of the farm and his grandfather helps Ralph find a wonderful lifeMargaret Suckley was a sixth cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt and ten years his junior. When she died at ninety-nine…
in 1991, Suckley left diaries and correspondence describing their close relationship. This volume contains Suckley's letters to Roosevelt, his to her, and excerpts from her papers from 1933-1945First light (Of Saints and Sinners Ser. #Vol. 1)
By Harold Fickett. 1993
Abram White is only eleven years old in 1729 when he leaves his home in northern Ireland and heads for…
America. On his trip, he becomes indentured to Captain Jack Hawks and spends the next ten years sailing around the world. When Abram meets Sarah Nicolls of New York, he knows that they are meant for each other, but they must face many hardships before they learn how to love one anotherAmerican dragons: twenty-five Asian American voices
By Laurence Yep. 1993
An anthology of twenty-five stories, poems, and essays by Asian Americans that enlighten, probe, and examine the experiences and emotions…
of young people with roots in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Selections are set in the past, present, and future, and most raise questions about identity and about preserving or rejecting the values of ancestors. For junior and senior high readersTinker vs. Des Moines: student rights on trial (Be the judge/be the jury)
By Doreen Rappaport, John J. Palencar. 1993
By 1965, 200,000 Americans were fighting in a war in Vietnam. Many Americans did not support the war. In Des…
Moines, Iowa, a dozen high school students were suspended for protesting the war, and three sued school officials for violating their right to free speech. Briefs and testimonies from the case, which reached the Supreme Court, are provided to challenge critical thinking. For grades 5-8 and older readersIn history's shadow: an American odyssey
By Mickey Herskowitz, John Connally, John Bowden Connally. 1993
Account of a political life that may appear to have been more in the limelight than in the shadow. Connally…
begins with the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy, when Connally, then Texas governor, was wounded. He recalls his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, his re- birth as a Republican and Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary, and his unsuccessful run for the presidency. Some strong languageThe house of mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
By Edith Wharton. 1991
First published in 1905. Lily Bart, the orphaned daughter of a New York merchant, is endowed with beauty and charm…
and hopelessly addicted to the pleasures of luxury and wealth. Though she relentlessly pursues her goal to marry someone with money, she is attracted to Lawrence Selden, a lawyer of modest meansSpanish pioneers of the Southwest (Adventures in Time & Place Series)
By Joan Anderson, George Ancona. 1989
The first settlement of Europeans in the New World was not that of the Pilgrims, nor was it in the…
East. Twenty years before the Pilgrims, Spanish settlers established the colony of New Spain (which is now New Mexico) in the North American Southwest. The author vividly recreates life in the mid-1700s in one early Spanish settlement--El Rancho de las Golondrinas.For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1989Wartime writings, 1939-1944
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry. 1986
Posthumously collected and chronologically arranged miscellaneous writings of the French author best known for The Little Prince. Saint-Exupery, a professional…
aviator when World War II was declared, describes how he wrestled with his moral objections to war and his sense of duty to his Nazi-occupied homeland. He decided to become a military pilot and ultimately disappeared on a missionToward the radical center: a Karel C̈apek reader (Garrigue Book Ser.)
By Peter Kussi, Karel Capek, Karel C̈apek. 1990
English translations of three plays and several short stories, essays, and assorted sketches on gardening and travel provide a sampling…
of the work of this prolific Czechoslovakian writer. The word "robot" from his 1922 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), included here, has entered everday languageYankees in the land of the gods: Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan
By Peter Booth Wiley. 1990
Before Perry's 1853 expedition, contact between the United States and Japan occurred mainly through shipwrecked sailors, including Americans who stranded…
themselves on Japan's shore to try to enter the self-isolated country. Using newly translated Japanese documents as well as reports from Perry and his crew, Wiley provides both countries' perspectives on the historic encounterFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryBreaking the chains: African-American slave resistance
By William Loren Katz, David Katz. 1990
African-Americans did not accept slavery passively and with good humor. Through the use of primary source materials, Katz lays to…
rest the myth of the happy, docile slave--which was perpetuated by slave owners and given credence by historians. Katz paints a compelling picture of perpetual, resilient, and active and passive resistance to slavery by men, women, and children. For junior and senior high and older readersThe portable Emerson: New Edition (The Viking portable library)
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
Selections from the works of essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes his first published work, "Nature," which contains…
the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy; his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard, "The American Scholar;" and his controversial address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School in 1839. Also includes other essays and twenty-two poemsNot under forty
By Willa Cather. 1988
As I saw it
By Dean Rusk, Richard Rusk, Daniel S. Papp. 1990
A portrait of one of the United States's most enigmatic public figures. Dean Rusk was secretary of state during the…
Vietnam War years. His son Richard left home in 1970 primarily because he opposed his father's views. Fourteen years later, Richard returned to rediscover his relationship with his father by recording the elder Rusk's memoirs. BestsellerThe trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: a northern story
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Celia Richmond Weller, Clark A. Colahan. 1989
Cervantes himself declared this his masterpiece. A tale of a quest ending in marriage and in personal and religious enlightenment.…
On their journey, Persiles and Sigismunda find romance, shipwreck, scoundrels, witches and werewolves, widows and wenches, and Olympic Games. Their return finds them filled with a deeper understanding of themselves and each other and fit to rule the Northern kingdom. 1989Waldheim and Austria
By Richard Bassett. 1989
The author explores not only the question of whether Kurt Waldheim is a war criminal, but also whether the Austrians…
have come to terms with their Nazi past and are now creating a healthy democratic society. Bassett, who spent five years as a journalist in Vienna, presents the concept that Waldheim was mainly a product of a unique Austrian environment and a person who may not have been very committed to the Nazi cause