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Butterfly, The
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique discovers that her mother is a member of the Resistance, and that a secret trap door conceals a Jewish family in hiding. Monique and the secret "guest" become nighttime playmates until terror threatens.
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Declaring Independence
The events large and small surrounding the struggle for independence of the American colonies from England are told with a wealth of detail and with archival material. Source notes, bibliography, further reading and websites, and an index make the inte
| Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Half Spoon of Rice
Nine-year old Nat is forced from his home and marched into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge takes power. He is separated from his family and is forced to labor in the rice fields for four years. He survives and is reunited with his family. A surviva
| Author: Smith, Icy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Half Spoon of Rice
Nine-year old Nat is forced from his home and marched into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge takes power. He is separated from his family and is forced to labor in the rice fields for four years. He survives and is reunited with his family. A surviva
| Author: Smith, Icy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Persepolis 2
This graphic novel sequel to Persepolis, depicts the author's rebellious adolescence and early adulthood among dissident outsider friends in Vienna and her voluntary return to her family in fundamentalist Tehran. Readers should be cautioned about referen
| Author: Satrapi, Marjane |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood
In this first of two volumes about the author's life, Satrapi tells of her childhood and coming of age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran/Iraq war.
| Author: Satrapi, Marjane |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - writing
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Taste of Salt
This gripping novel tells the story of two teenagers in Haiti, Djo, one of Aristides' orphaned boys who is hospitalized with terrible injuries, and Jeremie, a convent-educated girl who visits Djo to hear his stories and who begins to fall in love with him
Tonight, By Sea
A Haitian girl, Paulie, joins with her village to secretly build and launch a boat and escape to Miami. The book is full of dialect and may be too difficult for some readers, but the subject matter and compelling story make it good reading.
| Author: Temple, Frances |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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