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Chester Nez and the unbreakable code: a Navajo code talker's story
By Joseph Bruchac, Liz Amini-Holmes. 2018
Short biography of Chester Nez, who, after being taught that his native language and culture were useless at Fort Defiance…
School, was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII. For grades 2-4. 2018¡El gallo que no se callaba!: The rooster who would not be quiet!
By Eugene Yelchin, Carmen Agra Deedy. 2017
En este cuento bilingüe, el alcalde de La Paz--un pueblo ruidoso--instituye nuevas leyes que prohíben todo canto. Pero un gallo…
valiente decide que debe cantar, independientemente del castigo. Para los grados K-3. Español/InglésOperation Yes
By Sara Lewis Holmes, Sara Holmes. 2009
Gari moves in with her cousin Bo's family when her mother is deployed to Iraq. The cousins enjoy the improvisational…
theater techniques they learn in Miss Loupe's sixth-grade classroom--and put them to good use after Miss Loupe's brother is reported missing in Afghanistan. For grades 4-7. 2009Two terrible days in May: the Rader Farm Massacre
By Billie Holladay Skelley, Billie Skelley, James Skelley. 2019
Terrible typhoid Mary: a true story of the deadliest cook in America
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2015
Mary Mallon, who became known as "Typhoid Mary," was hired as a cook for a wealthy family in 1906. A…
few weeks later an outbreak of typhoid fever swept through the household. Eventually it was determined that Mallon was a healthy carrier, spreading the disease but not suffering it herself. She was arrested and quarantined against her will. This biography explores the many violations of Mallon's human and civil rights, the culture of the period, how the public and health officials responded, and the sensationalism of "yellow journalism." For grades 5-8October mourning: a song for Matthew Shepard
By Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerIn the wake of the tragic suicide of a young, gay, university student, Tyler Clementi, the movement "It Gets Better"…
began, as thousands of user-created videos posted online echoed this message for LGBT youth of all races, backgrounds, and colors. Stemming from this movement, this collection of stories addresses the longstanding issues of sexual abuse, suicide, HIV/AIDS, racism, and homophobia in the African American and Latino communitites, and more specifically among young gay men of color. Contains some explicit descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violenceSoldier's secret: the story of Deborah Sampson
By Sheila Solomon Klass. 2009
After completing her indentured servitude, Deborah Sampson, a tall and strong young woman, wants to join America's Continental army and…
help the colonies gain independence. She disguises herself as a boy, enlists in a Massachusetts regiment, and serves admirably as a Revolutionary War soldier. For grades 6-9. 2009Armageddon in retrospect: and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace
By Kurt Vonnegut. 2008
Twelve fiction and nonfiction pieces representing Vonnegut's views on violence and war and his desire for world peace. Contains both…
a 1945 letter to his family summarizing his prisoner-of-war experience in Germany and his last speech, written in 2007. Introduction by his son Mark Vonnegut. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008From slave to soldier: based on a true Civil War story (Ready-to-Read)
By Deborah Hopkinson, Brian Floca. 2005
Tennessee, Civil War. Young Johnny hates being a slave and chooses freedom by joining the Union Army. Johnny proves his…
bravery by driving the mule team and supply wagon by himself at night to bring food to hungry soldiers. Short chapter book. For grades 2-4. 2005The pirate round: Book Three of the Brethren of the Coast
By James L. Nelson, James L Nelson. 2002
Virginia colonies, 1706. Following The Blackbirder (DB 53881) pirate-turned-landowner Thomas Marlowe faces economic ruin. With his wife, Elizabeth, he decides…
to smuggle tobacco into England and then loot a mogul's ship in the Indian Ocean. The result is disastrous. Some violence and some strong language. 2002All the brave fellows
By James L. Nelson, James L Nelson. 2000
United States coastline, 1777. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is sailing with his wife and son to Philadelphia to take command of…
a new gun frigate. But the British fleet stands in the way, and the city falls to the enemy. Sequel to Lords of the Ocean (DB 55314). Violence and strong language. 2000The warrior's honor: ethnic war and the modern conscience
By Michael Ignatieff. 1998
Asks whether Western nations in the post-Cold War era bear a moral responsibility to intervene in ethnic conflicts, especially where…
human atrocities are committed. Examines such cases as Angola, Afghanistan, and Bosnia, where tribal loyalties outweigh the notion of universal human rightsHighways to a war
By C. J Koch, Christopher Koch. 1995
Asia, 1976. Australian photojournalist Mike Langford, missing in war-torn Cambodia, is presumed killed or captured. An old friend obtains the…
taped diaries that Langford kept until he disappeared. They reveal a story of duty, courage, and love through a decade of strife in Indochina. Strong language and violenceTinker 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 readersKeeping watch: a history of American time
By Michael O'Malley. 1990
The author chronicles the interest in time that developed as early nineteenth-century America slowly linked up cities. O'Malley ponders the…
political and social implications of the move from farmers' almanacs to mechanical devices. But neither railroad schedules, punchclocks, efficiency experts, nor standard time zones can regulate the rituals of some groups who still defer to solar timeAmerica and Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger
By Albert Marrin. 1992
The author provides a look at the war in Vietnam and its effects upon both nations. Beginning with information on…
Vietnam and a brief biography of Ho Chi Minh, the author then describes war and its horrors. He exposes the brutality of both the North and South Vietnamese governments and proclaims the unrealistic expectations and decisions of America's presidents. Violence and some strong language. For high school and older readersForty days
By Bob Simon. 1992
A CBS correspondent and his news team were taken prisoner by the Iraqis soon after the start of the Gulf…
War in 1991. Simon recounts the beatings, starvation, and lengthy interrogations that the four men endured. He also relates what was going on in his mind as he fought to retain his sanity, especially while he was in solitary confinement. And in an epilogue, he describes efforts others made to rescue the team. Some violence and strong languageFighting faiths: the Abrams case, the Supreme Court, and free speech
By Richard Polenberg. 1987
A history professor examines the case of five anarchists charged with distributing leaflets opposing U.S. intervention in Russia after World…
War I. He details the superheated atmosphere of patriotism in the country at that time, and the unfair trial the five received after being beaten and coerced to confess. Polenberg also analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court and its decision in the caseIke the soldier: as they knew him
By Merle Miller. 1987
A voluminous record of Dwight D. Eisenhower's military career. The author describes Ike from his Kansas boyhood to his position…
as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. Relying on scores of interviews with persons who knew Eisenhower in a variety of ways, unpublished diaries, memoirs, letters, and a wealth of published sources, the author presents a fresh portrait of Ike the soldier