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By Jeff Lantos. 2021
By Deborah Hopkinson. 2022
"As a hurricane gathered in the Caribbean, blue skies covered Galveston, Texas. Scientists knew a storm was coming. But none…
of them were able to prepare Galveston for the force of the hurricane that hit on September 8, 1900. The water from the storm surge pulled houses off their foundations, and the winds toppled telephone poles and trees like toothpicks. And amid the chaos, Galveston's residents did all they could to rescue one another. From the meteorologists tracking the storm, to the ordinary people who displayed extraordinary bravery...from the inequitable effects of the disaster, to the science of hurricanes and weather: Acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings voices from history to life in this fast-paced, wide-ranging narrative of the deadliest hurricane in American history." -- Provided by publisherBy Steve Dougherty. 2011
"Describes the Japanese surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the deaths of…
more than 2,000 American officers and servicemen and an immediate declaration of war on Japan." -- Provided by publisherBy Madison Moore. 2021
"Today, the NBA is around 74 percent Black but when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for…
Black people to play. They couldn't enter segregated YMCAs or attend privileged colleges. So Black Americans made their own spaces, playing in dance halls before the dancing started, and eventually forming teams called the Black Fives. More than Just a Game celebrates the history of basketball from a Black perspective, revealing how it changed Black communities and how they made the sport into what it is today." -- Provided by publisherBy Daniel James Brown. 2016
Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest…
for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. Adapted for young readers. For junior and senior high readers. UnratedBy Bret Corbin. 2015
Visit a most extraordinary children's summer camp in Vermont operating during the 1920s and 1930s where the attendees built the…
castles and life-sized, sea-worthy pirate ships where they lived for the summer and played. Learn how these talented youth experienced the ultimate boyhood fantasy by building a huge pirate ship and living on it during extended voyages across Lake Champlain, New York, and Canada. For grades 6-9By Marc Tyler Nobleman, Melissa Iwai. 2018
The devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, drew the United States into World War II. Few know…
that several months later, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs on the mainland, outside a small town in Oregon. But the bombings were only the beginning of Fujita's story. Twenty years later, he returned to Oregon, this time to apologize. This true tale is a dramatic and moving account of reconciliation after war. For grades 2-4By Alvin Schwartz. 1977
By Elliott Smith. 2023
Juneteenth is the celebration of the day enslaved people in Texas were told they were freed-two years after the signing…
of the Emancipation Proclamation. Explore Juneteenth's little-told history, from the first Jubilee to the making of a national holiday. Have you ever considered what's missing from history books? In Left Out of History , explore the misunderstood and underexamined past in this engaging series. Compelling photographs and primary sources help bring previously buried history to light. Read Woke™ Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian. Inspired by a belief that knowledge is power, Read Woke Books seek to amplify the voices of people of the global majority (people who are of African, Arab, Asian, and Latin American descent and identify as not white), provide information about groups that have been disenfranchised, share perspectives of people who have been underrepresented or oppressed, challenge social norms and disrupt the status quo, and encourage readers to take action in their communityBy Hana Bajramovic. 2020
Lawyer discusses the Second Amendment, the rise of the NRA, and how money, power, and race have long dictated our…
ability to own guns. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2020By 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. 2020By Brian Boone, Amanda Brack. 2019
Hundreds of jokes and riddles a Hufflepuff would love. Includes categories such as fantastic beasts, a whole new Newt world,…
and jokes that are utterly riddikulus! For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2019By Patricia Lakin, Simon Sullivan. 2004
By Ed Stanley. 2003
Provides a history of Grand Central Terminal from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including its construction and architecture, the…
role played by Cornelius Vanderbilt, and facts about railroads in generalBy Tristan Boyer Binns. 2001
By Brock Cole, Deborah Chandra, Madeleine Comora. 2003
By Andrew Clements, Mike Reed. 2006
By Jonathan Swift, Carolyn Gloeckner. 1992
By Jean Iwata Cachola. 1995
By M. C. King, Disney Storybook Art Team. 2007
Miley Stewart loves all the e-mail that her alter-ego Hannah Montana receives. When an e-mail from a girl at Miley's…
school asks Hannah for advice about her secret crush, Miley goes too far. The girl has a crush on Miley's friend Oliver and Miley tells the girl to ask him out. Based on the Disney Channel's television series Hannah Montana. For grades 3-6