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By Garth Nix, Kathleen Jennings, Tehani Wessely, Tansy Rayner Roberts. 2015
This collection of twenty-two stories features an array of women challenging conventional wisdom about appropriate female behavior throughout history. The…
protagonists include both the iconic and all-but-forgotten. Authors include, among others, Garth Nix, Jane Yolen, Liz Barr, Kirstyn McDermott, and Foz Meadows. 2015By Jim Murphy, Jon Scieszka, Douglas Florian, Sy Montgomery, Candace Fleming, Elizabeth Partridge, Nathan Hale, Steve Sheinkin, James Sturm, T. Edward Nickens, Thanhhà Lai. 2014
Award-winning authors and journalists provide a collection of essays, biographies, travelogues, and more--all geared to males. In "Sahara Shipwreck," author…
Steve Sheinkin tells the true story of capture, enslavement in the desert, and urine consumption in order to survive. For grades 5-8. 2014Discusses the early battles of the Revolutionary War, beginning with the appointment of George Washington as commander of the newly…
formed Continental army. Examines the British army's advantages during the invasion of New York City and asserts that Washington's tactics revived the spirit of the revolution. For grades 4-7. 2010By Alden R. Carter. 2003
Fictional account of the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where Union troops under Major General William Starke Rosecrans…
confronted Confederate troops led by General Braxton Bragg from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863. Portrays soldiers on both sides. Violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003By Farley Mowat. 2004
Short narratives depicting the experiences of Arctic inhabitants as they struggle to survive, raise families, and maintain their culture. Includes…
the title piece and "Walk Well, My Brother," an account of a downed pilot's unlikely rescue by his passenger, a native woman dying of tuberculosis. Some strong language. 1975By Tom Lalicki. 2004
Civil War, 1863. Day-by-day account of Union Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson's sixteen-day raid with seventeen hundred men and their horses…
through central Mississippi. Their mission was to destroy railroads and military targets, diverting Confederate attention while Union troops moved on Vicksburg. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2004By 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. 2000By James M. McPherson, James M McPherson. 2002
Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a brief introduction to the Civil War (1861-1865) emphasizing the battles and important leaders. Includes anecdotes…
from the participants, the role of women and slaves, and the task of reconstruction. For grades 5-8. 2002. For grades 5-8. 2002By Avi. 2001
During World War II, fifth-grader Howie lives in Brooklyn, New York, while his father is fighting overseas. Howie and his…
friend Denny fall in love with their teacher and keep up with the battle news. They try to keep her from being fired. For grades 5-8. 2001By Walter Dean Myers. 1999
The life of an African princess who was about to be killed in a ritual sacrifice in 1850 when she…
was rescued by Commander Forbes, taken to England, and presented to Queen Victoria as Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The queen became Sarah's protector and godmother to her first child. For grades 5-8By James Stevenson. 1992
The author, a ten-year-old boy in 1942 when the United States entered World War II, reminisces on just what it…
was like to be a "kid." With his brother and father away fighting, he tried to do his part to win the war by collecting tinfoil, saving tin cans, buying war stamps, planting a "victory garden," and keeping an eye on a neighbor who he suspected was a spy. For grades 2-4 to share with older readersBy Lloyd Bloom, Terry W Treseder, Terry W. Treseder. 1990
Isaac, a twelve-year-old boy in the Warsaw ghetto, tells this gripping, troubling story. It begins at his brother Simon's bar…
mitzvah soon after the Nazis invade Poland. Isaac describes his father's unwavering faith in God; Simon's disaffection from his faith; the deaths of most of the family from starvation; and the final moments before Isaac's death at Treblinka. Violence. For junior and senior high and older readersBy Rebecca Harding Davis, Tillie Olsen. 1985
The title piece, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861, tells the story of an artist living in…
one of the early industrial towns of America and portrays the deprivation of the mill hands and their families. Also included are "The Wife's Story," "Anne," and a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. These describe the lives of women constrained by society and by their own senses of dutyBy Patrick O'Brian, Patrick Obrian. 1991
Captain Jack Aubrey and his good friend physician-spy-naturalist Stephen Maturin take leave of the "Surprise" and set sail on the…
"Diane," bound for a Malaysian island. Their mission is to deliver a British envoy intent on signing with the sultan of Borneo a treaty that undermines Napoleon. They visit a Buddhist monastery, endure the insufferable emissary, and play chamber music. Some strong languageBy E. E. Cummings, E. E Cummings, E E Cummings, George J. Firmage. 1978
Satirical account of the poet's experiences in a French prison camp during World War I. Volunteering as an ambulance driver…
in France, he is arrested for his association with another American who is his best friend. 1934By Wayne Arthurson. 2021
Sergeant Neumann and the inmates of Camp 133 are back! Even thousands of miles from the front lines, locked into…
a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp at the base of the Canadian Rockies, death isn't far away. For August Neumann, head of Camp Civil Security and decorated German war hero, this is the reality. Chef Schlipal has been found dead in Mess #3, a knife in his back. Now it's up to Neumann to find out what would drive the men of the camp, brothers-in-arms, to turn on each other. He's learned, of course, that beneath the veneer of duty and honour, the camp is anything but civil. When the trail of clues ends at the edge of the prison yard, Neumann must consider the crime bigger than the camp. Is someone getting out of the prison? If so, can he follow? If he can't, he might have to live with the dishonour of Camp 133.By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. 1998
By Derek Robinson. 2005
1918. Twenty-three-year-old Stanley Woolley, the disillusioned commander of a British flight squadron on the Western Front during World War I,…
trains his younger, inexperienced pilots to fly biplanes in combat--knowing they will all soon be dead. Some violence and some strong language. 1971By Veterans History Project. 2004
Personal accounts of American soldiers and medical personnel active in World War I, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam…
wars, and the Persian Gulf conflicts. Extracts from interviews, letters, and diary entries collected by the Library of Congress Veterans History Project are grouped by themes: Answering the Call, Under Fire, Coming Home. 2004By Juan Saer, Roanne Kantor. 1976
The most important Argentinian writer since Borges --The IndependentThe One Before is a triptych of sorts consisting of…
a series of short pieces--called Arguments --and two longer stories-- Half-Erased and The One Before --all of which revolve around the ideas of exile and memory Many of the characters who populate Juan Jos Saer s other novels appear here including Tomatis ngel Leto and Washington Noriega who appear in La Grande Scars and The Sixty-Five Years of Washington all of which are available from Open Letter