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Hand in Hand
The collection of poems is organized by American historical themes rather than by chronology. There are many poems that are familiar patriotic songs.
| Author: Hopkins, Lee (Ed.) |
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Harlem Hellfighters, The
This book is mostly about the "Harlem Hellfighters," the 369th Infantry Regiment in WWI. This story is set in the larger context of the role of African American men in war prior to WWI.
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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I Remember Korea
This collection of poignant and gripping memories of Korean War veterans includes archival photographs, a timeline, and Internet sites.
| Author: Granfield, Linda |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - writing
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Joan of Arc
The author weaves together historical fact and fiction in the story of a modern French girl who idolizes Joan of Arc. An historical map and beautiful illustrations enhance the stories.
| Author: Morpurgo, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lugalbanda
This retelling of the oldest recorded story ever found from Sumer (now Iraq) recounts the journey of a young prince as he crosses the mountains to join a war and find his brothers, overcoming obstacles on his way. The book includes interesting historical
| Author: Henderson, Kathy |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Mud City
Shauzia, with her dog, has fled Afghanistan and survives on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan, and in a refugee camp. This is the second part of a trilogy.
| Author: Ellis, Deborah |
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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Pride of Baghdad
This graphic novel of a family of lions liberated from the Baghdad zoo by U.S. bombing raids provides a symbolic understanding of the war from the dangers they encounter.
| Author: Vaughan, Brian K. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Saladin
This beautifully illustrated biography of the revered Islamic hero, Saladin, provides a balanced view of the Crusades. The book includes a map, historical context, a postscript of history post-Saladin, a glossary, and a bibliography.
| Author: Stanley, Diane |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Seven Brave Women
A young girl recounts her family history passed down to her through stories and family artifacts of remarkable, ordinary women. Each of the seven women who lived at the time of a war "made history by not fighting in wars."
Shattered
This collection contains twelve stories about the impact of war on children and teenagers, some fictional, some personal experiences. A trailer with historical background crawls across the bottom of the page. Biographies of the authors are included.
| Author: Armstrong, Jennifer (ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Silent Music
A young boy in present-day Baghdad learns Arabic calligraphy to distract him from the bombing of his city. The gorgeous illustrations invite the reader to learn to write the Arabic words for "war" and "peace." An author's note gives the historical backg
| Author: Rumford, James |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Silent Witness A True Story of the Civil War, The
Lulu McLean, age four, lived in Manassas, Virginia on a plantation when the Civil War started. General Beauregard established his headquarters in her home. Shortly after, Lulu's father moved the family to Appomattox Court House, where the surrender to end
| Author: Friedman, Robin |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Surrender Tree, The
Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. Acclaimed poet, Margarita Engle has created a lyrical, powerful portrait of Cuba. The main character is a healer who treats anyone in need. Initially a slave, Rosa becomes a free person w
| Author: Engle, Margarita |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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War, The
A young prince, who dislikes war, cleverly provides an alternative to fighting.
Why War Is Never A Good Idea
This beautifully illustrated poetic essay uses images of water and earth to communicate the destructiveness of war. Dscribes war as a "something which has grown old, but not wise as it destroys beautiful things and nice people."
| Author: Walker, Alice |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Winter People, The
Historical Fiction: As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a 14 year old boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
| Author: Bruchac, Joseph |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Zlata's Diary
Eleven-year old Zlata keeps a diary during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-93. The first part of the diary has insights about a child living her life in war torn Sarajevo, the second part becomes tedious and repetitive.
| Author: Filipovic, Zlata |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > Arab-Israeli conflict
Real Time
A gripping story told in real time (hence the title)from the viewpoints of several characters involved in the bombing of an Israeli bus.
| Author: Kass, Pnina Moed |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > children and war
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
This nonfiction reference book is filled with photographs and details about Anne Frank, her family, and the world in which she lived.
| Author: Verhoeven, Rian & van der Rol, Ruud |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Bee & Jacky
A brother and sister suffer the effects of their father's Vietnam trauma and their mother's ineffectualness by resuming a physical relationship. This moving, psychologically honest book is difficult to read because the real or imagined incest is portraye
Boys' War, The
This award-winning book uses firsthand accounts of experiences to offer a look at the role of young (some as young as 12) soldiers in the Civil War.
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Brothers In Hope
The author, who worked with the International Rescue Committee, tells the story of the "lost boys" of Sudan, orphaned by war, who walked to refuge in Ethiopia, and later to Kenya. The first person narrative and vibrant illustrations add immediacy to the
| Author: Williams, Mary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Cats in Krasinski Square, The
With a simple text and marvelous watercolors, Hesse tells a true story of the bravery of the Jewish Resistance who helped the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. End matter provides more historical background.
| Author: Hesse, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Drummer Boy
A 13-year-old boy, awed by hearing Lincoln make a speech, lies about his age to take part in the Civil War. He becomes a drummer boy and in this role experiences much of war's horror.
| Author: Turner, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
This is an informative account of a child left behind when his American soldier father left Vietnam and his mother died. It traces his journey to America, his adopted family and his eventual return to his homeland to help orphans.
| Author: Warren, Andrea |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Escaping into the Night
Thirteen year old Halina escapes from a Polish ghetto to a forest community of Jews where she and her friends Batya and Reuven learn to survive despite brutality, extreme hardship, and loss of family. Although this book is fiction, there were real commu
| Author: Friedman, D. Dina |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Fish
The story of the difficult and dangerous journey a family must make out of a country hit with drought and civil unrest. The story is told from the point of view of the family's youngest member who decides to take a live fish on the journey.
| Author: Matthews, L. S. |
HSE Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Author's memoir of the years that shaped her childhood as her Jewish family is trapped in Nazi Germany, sent to prison camps, and escapes to the United States.
| Author: Perl, Lila and Blumenthal, Marion Lazan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
This photobiography of Albert Einstein documents his celebrated scientific achievements and his lesser-known stands for freedom and opposition of tyrants from Hitler to McCarthy. The story of his family life gives insights into his pursuit of questioning
| Author: Delano, Marfe Ferguson |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
This photobiography of Albert Einstein documents his celebrated scientific achievements and his lesser-known stands for freedom and opposition of tyrants from Hitler to McCarthy. The story of his family life gives insights into his pursuit of questioning
| Author: Delano, Marfe Ferguson |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Gleam and Glow
The story of a family who fled from the Bosnian-Serb forces to a refugee camp in 1990. When they returned to their home in 1995 they found everything destroyed except 2 pet fish.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Gleam and Glow
The story of a family who fled from the Bosnian-Serb forces to a refugee camp in 1990. When they returned to their home in 1995 they found everything destroyed except 2 pet fish.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Hana's Suitcase
When a suitcase with Hana Brady's name on it arrives at the Toyko Children's Holocaust Education Center, the children have many question about who Hana might have been. In an effort to answer those questions, Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, begins a
| Author: Levine, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Hidden Child
A survivor of the Holocaust describes with illustrations and text his hiding in France during World War II and his search for his family and friends after the war.
| Author: Millman, Isaac |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
This book consists of poems and drawings done by children living in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, a solid introduction, and historical information stating the fates of the children authors/artists. Students and tea
| Author: Volavkova, Hana (Ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Katie's Trunk
This book, which provides a glimpse of the beginnings of the American Revolution, is based on a true incident that happened to one of the author's ancestors. It's set around the time of the Boston Tea Party and tells the story of what happened to Katie,
| Author: Turner, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The story of a Sierra Leonian boy who at age 12 was recruited and forced into being a gun toting, drug crazed soldier and then learned how to live with what he had done after going through a UNICEF rehabilitation program.
| Author: Beah, Ishmael |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Love You, Soldier
This touching story about the effects of WW II on one family is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Katie. (NOTE: This is a short chapter book that will be very easy for students to read.)
| Author: Hest, Amy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Luba, the Angel of Bergen-Belsen
This is the story of Luba Tryszynska, a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who hid 52 abandoned Jewish children until the camp was liberated. Front and back matter establish the historical context with a map and a bibliography. An epilogue tel
| Author: McCann, Michelle R. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
During the occupation of Germany after WW II, a young girl writes a letter to an American airlift pilot who drops chocolates to children. The author includes a biography of Col. Halvorsen, "the chocolate pilot" of the title.
Moon Over Tennessee
A boy accompanies his father into the Confederate Army in the Civil War, eventually arriving at the battle of Gettysburg. The story-poem is told in a format of journal entries. Somber black and white woodcuts contribute to the tragic tone. A map and an
| Author: Crist-Evans, Craig |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Mud City
Shauzia, with her dog, has fled Afghanistan and survives on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan, and in a refugee camp. This is the second part of a trilogy.
| Author: Ellis, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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My Freedom Trip: A Child's Escape from North Korea
This story describes the flight of a young girl from North to South Korea just before the outbreak of the Korean War. The story is told simply with superb illustrations.
| Author: Park, Frances and Park, Ginger |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
A touching recounting of a Jewish child's survival in Nazi Poland. Hidden with her Catholic nanny, Anita and her younger brother are hidden for years but are eventually caught and imprisoned. After freedom, they are both sent to a sanatorium for tubercul
| Author: Lobel, Anita |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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October 45
Subtitled "Childhood Memories of the War," this book tells the author's observations of life from September, 1939, when France and England enter the war against Germany, through October, 1945, when Besson goes back to school in peace for the first time.
| Author: Besson, Jean Louis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Once On This Island
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
| Author: Whelan, Gloria |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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One More Border
Illustrated with paintings, documents, and photos, this is the true story of a family's escape from war-torn Europe during WW II.
| Author: Kaplan, William |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Parvana's Journey
Disguised as a boy, Parvana rescues a baby and joins with a young boy as she travels through war-torn Afghanistan searching for her family. The telling of the story through the child's perspective allows the reader to approach a sensitive current event an
| Author: Ellis, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Rescued Images
The author contributes a moving and strikingly illustrated memoir of her experience of being a "hidden child" in Holland during World War II and its far-reaching effect.
| Author: Jacobsen, Ruth |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Roses in My Carpet, The
This story of a young refugee boy from Afghanistan was inspired by a real child. The boy lives in a refugee camp and weaves rugs.
| Author: Khan, Rukhsana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Sarah's Key
The story of the roundup of the Jews in France during WWII. A heart-wrenching look at the infamous collaboration of French officials with the Nazis It is told through two people: a 10-year-old Jewish girl and an American journalist 60 years later.
| Author: de Rosnay, Tatiana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Shin's Tricycle
This powerful story tells about the effects of the atom bomb on an ordinary Japanese family, especially on the little boy Shin. It ends with an author's note about the Peace Museum.
| Author: Kodama, Tatsuharu |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Silent Music
A young boy in present-day Baghdad learns Arabic calligraphy to distract him from the bombing of his city. The gorgeous illustrations invite the reader to learn to write the Arabic words for "war" and "peace." An author's note gives the historical backg
| Author: Rumford, James |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Silent Witness A True Story of the Civil War, The
Lulu McLean, age four, lived in Manassas, Virginia on a plantation when the Civil War started. General Beauregard established his headquarters in her home. Shortly after, Lulu's father moved the family to Appomattox Court House, where the surrender to end
| Author: Friedman, Robin |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Soldier's Heart
15-year-old Charley Goddard lies about his age to enlist in the Civil War. This book chronicles his war experiences (some very graphic) with the First Minnesota Volunteers. At the end of the book we learn a bit about how the War affected Charley's mind a
| Author: Paulsen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Thunder at Gettysburg
This book is written in five chapters of free verse and tells the story of a young girl who was a witness to the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The text is accompanied by several line drawings and a concluding historical note.
| Author: Gauch, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Tree Girl
Based on true experiences that were shared with the author, Gabriela, a Guatemalan girl who loves to climb trees, escapes a massacre, eventually reaching a refugee camp where she is reunited with her little sister, both of whom must overcome the trauma an
Under the Sun
After his father sends him and his mother to relatives outside Sarajevo to escape the perils of the war in the former Yugoslavia, 13-year-old Ehmet must find the way through land mines, burned villages, and hostile bands of armed men to his grandparents i
| Author: Dorros, Arthur |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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War Boy: A Country Childhood
The author describes his childhood in a small coastal town in England, which was often bombed during WW II. He offers technical descriptions of gas masks, bomb shelters, etc., as well as describing the games children played and how they interacted with s
| Author: Foreman, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Why War Is Never A Good Idea
This beautifully illustrated poetic essay uses images of water and earth to communicate the destructiveness of war. Dscribes war as a "something which has grown old, but not wise as it destroys beautiful things and nice people."
| Author: Walker, Alice |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Zlata's Diary
Eleven-year old Zlata keeps a diary during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-93. The first part of the diary has insights about a child living her life in war torn Sarajevo, the second part becomes tedious and repetitive.
| Author: Filipovic, Zlata |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > Civil War
Abe Lincoln Remembers
Written as if Lincoln were telling his life story, the book briefly traces his life from his boyhood in Kentucky to the night he and his wife went to see a play at the Ford Theater.
| Author: Turner, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Boys' War, The
This award-winning book uses firsthand accounts of experiences to offer a look at the role of young (some as young as 12) soldiers in the Civil War.
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Brothers War, The: Civil War Voices in Verse
Well-known poet J. Patrick Lewis includes archival photographs and factual information to expand the emotional of his poems that give voice to individuals who were caught up in the Civil War. The book also includes a map, a timeline, a bibliography, and
| Author: Lewis, J. Patrick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Bull Run
This is a fictional and personal account of the first great battle of the Civil War, as told from the points of view of 16 participants, Northern and Southern, male and female, black and white.
| Author: Fleischman, Paul |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Civil War
Illustrations include photographs, posters, and paintings from the archives at the Library of Congress. Quotes from speeches and letters are sprinkled throughout. This book presents information about battles and soldiers' lives as well as the impact of
| Author: Sandler, Martin |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Dear Mr. President: Abraham Lincoln Letters from a Slave Girl
Fictional correspondences between President Lincoln and a 12-year-old slave girl that discuss his decision to write the Emancipation Proclamation. The author includes a supporting website, index, other recommended books, and photographs.
| Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Drummer Boy
A 13-year-old boy, awed by hearing Lincoln make a speech, lies about his age to take part in the Civil War. He becomes a drummer boy and in this role experiences much of war's horror.
| Author: Turner, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Elijah of Buxton
Eleven-year-old Elijah, the first to be born free in a Canadian settlement for runaway slaves at the end of the Underground Railroad, though considered "fra-gile" and talkative by adults, performs an heroic feat with his chucking stones.
| Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul |
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Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Freedom Light
The book recounts the heroism of the people of Ripley, Ohio, both black and white, in their antislavery activities as a part of the Underground Railroad. Included are a timeline, biographical notes on John and Jean Rankin and John Parker, a glossary, and
| Author: Gaines, Edith |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Freedom's Gifts
An African American girl visits Texas relatives and learns about the history of Juneteenth, the day for celebrating freedom from slavery.
| Author: Wesley, Valery |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Gettysburg Address, The
The book uses Lincoln's actual words, which he spoke when consecrating the Pennsylvania cemetery. Each line is illustrated in black and white illustrations. It includes a foreword and afterword.
| Author: Lincoln, Abraham |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Ghost of the Southern Belle
This is a ghost story set on the high seas. The young son of a ship's captain finds a way to end the curse of a ghost ship.
Good Brother, Bad Brother
Subtitled "The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth," this long biography portrays their lives before and after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This is a GED level book.
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Hand in Hand
The collection of poems is organized by American historical themes rather than by chronology. There are many poems that are familiar patriotic songs.
| Author: Hopkins, Lee (Ed.) |
|
Jayhawker
With the U.S. on the verge of civil war, Elijah Tully and his father ride out of Kansas as Jayhawkers, guerrilla fighters against slavery. After his father is killed, Lije goes undercover among the proslavery bushwhackers to help the abolitionists and t
| Author: Beatty, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Journeys in Time
The authors and illustrator have created a story atlas of American history from the Ashinabe tribe to Viet Nam in which each double-page spread includes a narrative about an historical event, maps with numbered events, and fact boxes. Additional endnotes
| Author: Leacock, Elspeth & Buckley, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extrordinary Life
A loosely organized series of chapters/essays about the rise of photography in Lincoln's lifetime and how it shaped the way we view his Presidency. Many photographs from the period are included.
| Author: Sandler, Martin |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
This is a carefully researched, well illustrated, fascinating biography of Abraham Lincoln.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincolns, The
Using a scrapbook format with blocks of stories and archival photographs, the author provides a chatty, up-close biography of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. Since the book is in a scrapbook format, students can start reading anywhere in the book or read in the
| Author: Fleming, Candice |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Long Road to Gettysburg, The
The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) is described from the perspectives of two actual participants, a 19-year-old Confederate lieutenant and a 17-year-old Union soldier. Events surrounding delivery of the Gettysburg Address are also described; several prominen
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Moon Over Tennessee
A boy accompanies his father into the Confederate Army in the Civil War, eventually arriving at the battle of Gettysburg. The story-poem is told in a format of journal entries. Somber black and white woodcuts contribute to the tragic tone. A map and an
| Author: Crist-Evans, Craig |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers
Grace, an 11 year-old girl writes a letter to Abraham Lincoln suggesting that he grow whiskers to help him win the election.
| Author: Winnick, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
The discovery in 1995 and the subsequent slow scientific recovery of the Civil War submarine USS Hurley from the Charleston harbor reads like a mystery story. Photographs, archival material, author's note, footnotes, bibliography, glossary, and suggested
| Author: Walker, Sally |
HSE Descriptors:
science | social studies
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Silent Witness A True Story of the Civil War, The
Lulu McLean, age four, lived in Manassas, Virginia on a plantation when the Civil War started. General Beauregard established his headquarters in her home. Shortly after, Lulu's father moved the family to Appomattox Court House, where the surrender to end
| Author: Friedman, Robin |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Soldier's Heart
15-year-old Charley Goddard lies about his age to enlist in the Civil War. This book chronicles his war experiences (some very graphic) with the First Minnesota Volunteers. At the end of the book we learn a bit about how the War affected Charley's mind a
| Author: Paulsen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Sound the Jubilee
During the Civil War, Maddie, an eleven-year-old house slave, journeys with her mistress to Nags Head near Roanoke Island which has become a Yankee-protected community for run-away slaves. Maddie grows up there with her family and finds a place for herse
| Author: Forrester, Saundra |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers
The book recounts both the story of Harriet Powers during the century of the Civil War and the story of her two "story quilts" that now reside in museums. The book is illustrated with photographs of Bible stories from the quilts with explanatory captions
| Author: Lyons, Mary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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To Be a Slave
Reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves report their experiences of being owned and sold as property in the United States during the 19th Century. Many accounts of brutality are unsettling. This is a reprint of a 1968 edition with new introductory materia
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
An historical look at the influence cotton has had on the economy and people of the United States. The author traces the cotton industry from colonial times through the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the Southern plantations to the mill towns lik
| Author: Hopkinson, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
An historical look at the influence cotton has had on the economy and people of the United States. The author traces the cotton industry from colonial times through the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the Southern plantations to the mill towns lik
| Author: Hopkinson, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Wagon, The
At the time of Emancipation and Lincoln's death, a young boy, born into slavery, looks back on his anger at slavery and the support of his family as he helps his father build a wagon for the master which later carries them to freedom.
| Author: Johnston, Tony |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Walt Whitman: Words for America
This biography of Walt Whitman extends our knowledge of the poet, both in his growth as a poet and learning of the experiences that were the source of his poetry. Back matter contains more biographical and historical information, sources, and full poems
| Author: Kerley, Barbara |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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History > topic > war > Civil War > abolition
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
When slaves on the ship Amistad rebelled and tried to return home to Africa, they were captured and embroiled in legal battles of slavery and abolition in the U.S. The book includes sections on Further Reading, Bibliography, Epilogue, and endpaper courtr
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Anthony Burns
The subtitle of this book is "The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave." Especially appropriate for use in GED classrooms, Anthony Burns is based on fact and includes a timeline and historical footnotes. Hamilton fills out the details to crea
| Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Black Hands, White Sails
This book is mostly about the Atlantic whaling industry and the contributions of African American whalers. But it's also about abolition, the Underground Railroad, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Civil War. And it's about U.S. economics in the 18th and 19
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Black Legacy
This history of African Americans in New York City from a Dutch colony to the 1990's contains 18 chapters, documents and maps, Endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
| Author: Katz, William |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Freedom Light
The book recounts the heroism of the people of Ripley, Ohio, both black and white, in their antislavery activities as a part of the Underground Railroad. Included are a timeline, biographical notes on John and Jean Rankin and John Parker, a glossary, and
| Author: Gaines, Edith |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Good Brother, Bad Brother
Subtitled "The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth," this long biography portrays their lives before and after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This is a GED level book.
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Jayhawker
With the U.S. on the verge of civil war, Elijah Tully and his father ride out of Kansas as Jayhawkers, guerrilla fighters against slavery. After his father is killed, Lije goes undercover among the proslavery bushwhackers to help the abolitionists and t
| Author: Beatty, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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John Brown: One Man Against Slavery
This book tells the story of John Brown, White abolitionist and dissident, from the point of view of his daughter Annie. The book brings historical ideas and moral conflicts alive in a personal and elaborate way. The book answers the question: Can one p
| Author: Everett, Gwen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
This is a carefully researched, well illustrated, fascinating biography of Abraham Lincoln.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Only Passing Through
Strong illustrations help tell this biography of Sojourner Truth. An Author's Note updates the relevance of Sojourner Truth and provides a helpful timeline.
| Author: Rockwell, Anne |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Separate Battle, A: Women and the Civil War
This must-have addition to a Civil War collection weaves together stories of slave women, abolitionists, women's rights leaders, and famous and not-so-famous women to offer a look at women's experiences during the Civil War. Diaries and letters are frequ
| Author: Chang, Ina |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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When Harriet Met Sojourner
The author imagines the meeting of two brave activists for the freeing of slaves --Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman when they were in Boston in 1864. The story is told with the aid of very powerful artwork.
| Author: Clinton, Catherine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
Born a slave with little hope of ever learning to read, this story of Frederick Douglas, a man determined to read despite huge hurdles, provides an inspiring story for people of all ages.
| Author: Cline-Ransome, Lisa |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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History > topic > war > Civil War > Emancipation Proclamation
Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Days of Jubilee
Subtitled "The End of Slavery in the United States," this book chronicles the U.S. Civil War with particular attention to the different times and circumstances in which slaves were freed. The text is sprinkled with excerpts from slave narratives, letters,
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Dear Mr. President: Abraham Lincoln Letters from a Slave Girl
Fictional correspondences between President Lincoln and a 12-year-old slave girl that discuss his decision to write the Emancipation Proclamation. The author includes a supporting website, index, other recommended books, and photographs.
| Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
Patsy, a 12-year-old slave girl, keeps a diary during 1865, describing the changes in the plantation that come with the Emancipation Proclamation. The author appends historical notes, archival photographs, the wording of Constitutional Amendments 13,14,
| Author: Hansen, Joyce |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Juneteenth
Photographs from various locations in the U.S. depict the celebration of Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, the day African Americans learned of their freedom.
| Author: Branch, Muriel Miller |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
This is a carefully researched, well illustrated, fascinating biography of Abraham Lincoln.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Now Let Me Fly
This book gives a fictional account of Minna, a young African girl, taken from her homeland and sold into slavery. The epilogue carries the story forward to the Emancipation Declaration.
| Author: Johnson, Dolores |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Silent Witness A True Story of the Civil War, The
Lulu McLean, age four, lived in Manassas, Virginia on a plantation when the Civil War started. General Beauregard established his headquarters in her home. Shortly after, Lulu's father moved the family to Appomattox Court House, where the surrender to end
| Author: Friedman, Robin |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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History > topic > war > Civil War > Fugitive Slave Act
Anthony Burns
The subtitle of this book is "The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave." Especially appropriate for use in GED classrooms, Anthony Burns is based on fact and includes a timeline and historical footnotes. Hamilton fills out the details to crea
| Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Black Hands, White Sails
This book is mostly about the Atlantic whaling industry and the contributions of African American whalers. But it's also about abolition, the Underground Railroad, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Civil War. And it's about U.S. economics in the 18th and 19
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Black Pioneers
This well-researched history of African American pioneers, freedom fighters, and participants in the Underground Railroad tells little known stories of brave people who settled the midwest against great odds. The book contains archival photographs, a map
| Author: Katz, William Loren |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Friend on Freedom River
This is the story of young Louis, who decides to do what his father would do and help runaway slaves make it across the Detroit River to Canada.
| Author: Whelan, Gloria |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
January's Sparrow
After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad. As they make a new life in Michigan, they must remain alert for the slave catchers.
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
January's Sparrow
After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad. As they make a new life in Michigan, they must remain alert for the slave catchers.
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Jip: His Story
Jip, a young orphan in the mid-1850s, lives on a farm, interacts with Put "the lunatic," and wonders about his past. Eventually he attends school and, with the help of Teacher (Lyddie from the Paterson book by the same name) and her Quaker friend, discov
| Author: Paterson, Katherine |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The
This two-act play is about Thoreau's nonviolent acts of civil disobedience and about his waning friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
| Author: Lawrence, Jerome & Lee, Robert E. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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North by Night
Lucy Spencer and her Ohio farm family are involved in the Underground Railroad in 1851, a time when The Fugitive Slave Act levied severe punishment and fines for harboring runaway slaves. Lucy makes a courageous decision that changes her life and that of
| Author: Ayres, Katherine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > Civil War > Gettysburg
Abe Lincoln Remembers
Written as if Lincoln were telling his life story, the book briefly traces his life from his boyhood in Kentucky to the night he and his wife went to see a play at the Ford Theater.
| Author: Turner, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Abraham's Battle
An ex-slave named Abraham, a young Confederate soldier, and a girl from Gettysburg meet in the cataclysmic days of the Civil War battle. Abraham meets Lincoln after the President gives his famous address.
| Author: Banks, Sara Harrell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Day That Changed America, A: Gettysburg
This book intertwines the story of the day Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address with the events of the Battle of Gettysburg. Includes paintings, photographs and maps of the battle. There is a glossary and recommended reading in the back of the book.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Day That Changed America, A: Gettysburg
This book intertwines the story of the day Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address with the events of the Battle of Gettysburg. Includes paintings, photographs and maps of the battle. There is a glossary and recommended reading in the back of the book.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extrordinary Life
A loosely organized series of chapters/essays about the rise of photography in Lincoln's lifetime and how it shaped the way we view his Presidency. Many photographs from the period are included.
| Author: Sandler, Martin |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Long Road to Gettysburg, The
The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) is described from the perspectives of two actual participants, a 19-year-old Confederate lieutenant and a 17-year-old Union soldier. Events surrounding delivery of the Gettysburg Address are also described; several prominen
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Moon Over Tennessee
A boy accompanies his father into the Confederate Army in the Civil War, eventually arriving at the battle of Gettysburg. The story-poem is told in a format of journal entries. Somber black and white woodcuts contribute to the tragic tone. A map and an
| Author: Crist-Evans, Craig |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Places in Time
This story atlas describes on facing pages activities at a particular place and time in U.S. history, e.g. Fort Laramie during the westward expansion on the Oregon Trail in 1849. Included are community and building diagrams with numbered points of intere
| Author: Leacock, Elspeth & Buckley, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Soldier's Heart
15-year-old Charley Goddard lies about his age to enlist in the Civil War. This book chronicles his war experiences (some very graphic) with the First Minnesota Volunteers. At the end of the book we learn a bit about how the War affected Charley's mind a
| Author: Paulsen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Thunder at Gettysburg
This book is written in five chapters of free verse and tells the story of a young girl who was a witness to the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The text is accompanied by several line drawings and a concluding historical note.
| Author: Gauch, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > Civil War > Harpers Ferry
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
John Brown: One Man Against Slavery
This book tells the story of John Brown, White abolitionist and dissident, from the point of view of his daughter Annie. The book brings historical ideas and moral conflicts alive in a personal and elaborate way. The book answers the question: Can one p
| Author: Everett, Gwen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > Civil War > plantation life
47
In this part fictional slave narrative and part science fiction story, 47, a young slave without a name, learns from mysterious Tall John how to "neither a master nor a nigger be".
| Author: Mosley, Walter |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620 - 1970
This book offers an interesting chronicle of what Americans wore, 1620 - 1970, and often why.
| Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Old African, The
a beautifully told and illustrated story that, according to the dust jacket, is "based on legend." The Old African has magical powers. This is the story of his capture and enslavement as a young man and ultimately, his plan to free his fellow slaves.
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story
The book is set on a Virginia plantation in 1862. Eleven-year-old Summer and her older brother Rosco live with their mother on the Parnell Plantation as talk of President Lincoln's coming proclamation to free slaves reaches the community. Each of the mai
| Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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To Be a Slave
Reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves report their experiences of being owned and sold as property in the United States during the 19th Century. Many accounts of brutality are unsettling. This is a reprint of a 1968 edition with new introductory materia
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > Civil War > Underground Railroad
Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Abe's Honest Words
As part of Rappaport's series of well researched biographies that includes excerpts from speeches this is equally engaging and well developed. The narrative that contextualizes the life and times of Abraham Lincoln is enhanced by quotes from Lincoln's wri
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Black Hands, White Sails
This book is mostly about the Atlantic whaling industry and the contributions of African American whalers. But it's also about abolition, the Underground Railroad, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Civil War. And it's about U.S. economics in the 18th and 19
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
|
Black Pioneers
This well-researched history of African American pioneers, freedom fighters, and participants in the Underground Railroad tells little known stories of brave people who settled the midwest against great odds. The book contains archival photographs, a map
| Author: Katz, William Loren |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Borning Room, The
The narrator remembers growing up in southern Ohio in the 19th century, remembers farm life, celebrates her relatives with their varying ideas about slavery and religion, remembers her part in hiding slaves.
| Author: Fleischman, Paul |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet
Each letter of this alphabet book introduces a quilt pattern that relates to an activity or person important in early American history.
| Author: Paul, Ann Whitford |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Elijah of Buxton
Eleven-year-old Elijah, the first to be born free in a Canadian settlement for runaway slaves at the end of the Underground Railroad, though considered "fra-gile" and talkative by adults, performs an heroic feat with his chucking stones.
| Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul |
|
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Brown is one of the controversial figures in American history who continues today to evoke both anger and admiration. This gripping biography of John Brown, abolitionist and crusader for equality of races, describes the events of his life that led to Har
| Author: Cox, Clinton |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation teaching slaves the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd," which conceals directions for the route north to freedom. The book follows one slave family as they are directed north to the Underground Railroad and
| Author: Winter, Jeanette |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Freedom Light
The book recounts the heroism of the people of Ripley, Ohio, both black and white, in their antislavery activities as a part of the Underground Railroad. Included are a timeline, biographical notes on John and Jean Rankin and John Parker, a glossary, and
| Author: Gaines, Edith |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Freedom River
In this true story, John Parker, an ex-slave in Ripley, Ohio, helps a family on the Underground Railroad. Beautiful watercolor collages illustrate the story. Historical notes, additional books, suggested websites, and maps make this useful in the classr
| Author: Rappaport, Doreen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Friend on Freedom River
This is the story of young Louis, who decides to do what his father would do and help runaway slaves make it across the Detroit River to Canada.
| Author: Whelan, Gloria |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Henry's Freedom Box
This simply written picture book tells the true story of Henry Brown, a runaway slave who escaped to freedom by mailing himself in a crate.
| Author: Levine, Ellen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Historical Album of Ohio, A
This brief history of the state of Ohio contains photographs, maps, index , and a gazetteer with quick facts, timeline and famous people. The language has a textbook quality.
| Author: Wills, Charles |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
January's Sparrow
After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad. As they make a new life in Michigan, they must remain alert for the slave catchers.
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
January's Sparrow
After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad. As they make a new life in Michigan, they must remain alert for the slave catchers.
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Journeys in Time
The authors and illustrator have created a story atlas of American history from the Ashinabe tribe to Viet Nam in which each double-page spread includes a narrative about an historical event, maps with numbered events, and fact boxes. Additional endnotes
| Author: Leacock, Elspeth & Buckley, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Moses
The author's note describes this book on Harriet Tubman as a "fictionalized spiritual journey" comparing her answering the call of God to lead her people out of slavery to Moses leading the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt. The author includes a forewo
| Author: Weatherford, Carole |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
North by Night
Lucy Spencer and her Ohio farm family are involved in the Underground Railroad in 1851, a time when The Fugitive Slave Act levied severe punishment and fines for harboring runaway slaves. Lucy makes a courageous decision that changes her life and that of
| Author: Ayres, Katherine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Place Called Freedom, A
Freed slave James Starman takes his family from Tennessee to Indiana where they are joined by other African Americans over many years, establishing a very unique community.
| Author: Sanders, S. |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Separate Battle, A: Women and the Civil War
This must-have addition to a Civil War collection weaves together stories of slave women, abolitionists, women's rights leaders, and famous and not-so-famous women to offer a look at women's experiences during the Civil War. Diaries and letters are frequ
| Author: Chang, Ina |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Based on a true incident, this story tells of a young slave girl's brainstorm of sewing a map of the Underground Railroad onto a quilt so that others could find their way to freedom.
| Author: Hopkinson, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Trouble Don't Last
This is the story of 11-year-old Samuel and "cranky old Harrison," who leave the Kentucky farm where they are slaves and head north to freedom, encountering non-stereotypical members of trhe Underground Railroad. The author is the historian at Hale Farm a
| Author: Pearsall, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Underground Railroad, The
The photos and illustrations and text combine into a wonderful teaching tool on slavery. Several readers commented on how much new information they gleaned from this book of nonfiction. The book includes a timeline.
| Author: Bial, Raymond |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman
This is a spellbinding yet simply written account of Harriet Tubman and how she led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
| Author: McGovern, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > conscientious objector
Shattered
This collection contains twelve stories about the impact of war on children and teenagers, some fictional, some personal experiences. A trailer with historical background crawls across the bottom of the page. Biographies of the authors are included.
| Author: Armstrong, Jennifer (ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
This beautifully illustrated and researched biography of the French peasant girl who became known as Joan of Arc describes how she led the French against the English in the 100 Year's War. The book includes an historical background of the 100 Year's War,
| Author: Stanley, Diane |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > peace/pacifism
I Have Seen Castles
A 67-year-old man remembers growing up in Pittsburgh and falling in love with a young woman pacifist who couldn't understand why he would want to go overseas to fight.
On the Wings of Peace
This is a collection of illustrations and various types of text, all provided by noted authors and illustrators, that focus on issues related to peace. Many cultures are represented among characters and in illustrations.
| Author: Hamanaka, Sheila (comp.) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Peace, Locomotion
This book is a collection of the letters and poems Lonnie, hero of the book Locomotion, writes to his sister Lili, who lives with a different foster parent than Lonnie does. The book is remarkably upbeat while dealing with the family issues that Lonnie an
| Author: Woodson, Jacqueline |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - writing
|
Peace, Locomotion
This book is a collection of the letters and poems Lonnie, hero of the book Locomotion, writes to his sister Lili, who lives with a different foster parent than Lonnie does. The book is remarkably upbeat while dealing with the family issues that Lonnie an
| Author: Woodson, Jacqueline |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - writing
|
Shin's Tricycle
This powerful story tells about the effects of the atom bomb on an ordinary Japanese family, especially on the little boy Shin. It ends with an author's note about the Peace Museum.
| Author: Kodama, Tatsuharu |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
War and the Pity of War
This large collection of powerful poems and very moving illustrations on war ranges over time and place and level of difficulty. The editor includes an index of writers, and index of poems, and an introduction thate gives his reasons for selecting partic
| Author: Philip, Neil |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
War, The
A young prince, who dislikes war, cleverly provides an alternative to fighting.
History > topic > war > reconstruction
Black Legacy
This history of African Americans in New York City from a Dutch colony to the 1990's contains 18 chapters, documents and maps, Endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
| Author: Katz, William |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Days of Jubilee
Subtitled "The End of Slavery in the United States," this book chronicles the U.S. Civil War with particular attention to the different times and circumstances in which slaves were freed. The text is sprinkled with excerpts from slave narratives, letters,
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Gleam and Glow
The story of a family who fled from the Bosnian-Serb forces to a refugee camp in 1990. When they returned to their home in 1995 they found everything destroyed except 2 pet fish.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Gleam and Glow
The story of a family who fled from the Bosnian-Serb forces to a refugee camp in 1990. When they returned to their home in 1995 they found everything destroyed except 2 pet fish.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
Patsy, a 12-year-old slave girl, keeps a diary during 1865, describing the changes in the plantation that come with the Emancipation Proclamation. The author appends historical notes, archival photographs, the wording of Constitutional Amendments 13,14,
| Author: Hansen, Joyce |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Sarney
A sequel to Nightjohn, the book follows the life of Sarny, the slave girl that Nightjohn taught to read, as she travels to New Orleans in the aftermath of the Civil War to find her children who had been sold into slavery.
| Author: Paulsen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > refugees
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Author's memoir of the years that shaped her childhood as her Jewish family is trapped in Nazi Germany, sent to prison camps, and escapes to the United States.
| Author: Perl, Lila and Blumenthal, Marion Lazan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Grab Hands and Run
Based on a true story, this 165-page book tells of twelve-year-old Felipe, his sister, and his mother as they flee El Salvador when his father disappears. The family escapes, hides, and runs until, caught, they are finally placed in a new home in Canada.
| Author: Temple, Frances |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Home of the Brave
An African refuge lives with his aunt and cousin in Minneapolis. He has problems adjusting and misses his mother (no one knows where she is). He finds comfort in an older lady and her cow whose name means family in his native language.
| Author: Applegate, Katherine |
HSE Descriptors:
literature and arts | social studies
|
Lotus Seed, The
A young girl tells her grandmother's story of carrying a lotus seed with her from Vietnam, losing it, and then regaining it. The author wants to share "how a family's heritage is passed from one generation to the next and how hope, like the lotus seed, ca
| Author: Garland, Sherry |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
My Grandmother's Journey
The narrator tells the story of the grandmother's life and of the many wars and troubles she experienced in Eastern Europe, until she came to the U.S.
| Author: Cech, John |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Real Time
A gripping story told in real time (hence the title)from the viewpoints of several characters involved in the bombing of an Israeli bus.
| Author: Kass, Pnina Moed |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Shattered
This collection contains twelve stories about the impact of war on children and teenagers, some fictional, some personal experiences. A trailer with historical background crawls across the bottom of the page. Biographies of the authors are included.
| Author: Armstrong, Jennifer (ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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War and the Pity of War
This large collection of powerful poems and very moving illustrations on war ranges over time and place and level of difficulty. The editor includes an index of writers, and index of poems, and an introduction thate gives his reasons for selecting partic
| Author: Philip, Neil |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Ziba Came on a Boat
This story is based on a real incident. Ziba and her mother run from their country because of fighting. They are on an overloaded boat coming to freedom. Ziba spends the time thinking of what she left behind, why she left her home and what the future wo
| Author: Lofthouse, Liz |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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History > topic > war > refugees > political relocation
Anne Frank
If you wonder why read another book on Anne Frank, look at this beautifully and realistically illustrated story that simply relates the political situation and gives the characters more three-dimensional personalities. A chronology in the end papers adds
| Author: Poole, Josephine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Anne Frank
If you wonder why read another book on Anne Frank, look at this beautifully and realistically illustrated story that simply relates the political situation and gives the characters more three-dimensional personalities. A chronology in the end papers adds
| Author: Poole, Josephine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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At Her Majesty's Request
Queen Victoria oversees the education and upbringing of an African princess after she was rescued from execution by a ship captain who brought her to England.
| Author: Myers, Walter Den |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Gleam and Glow
The story of a family who fled from the Bosnian-Serb forces to a refugee camp in 1990. When they returned to their home in 1995 they found everything destroyed except 2 pet fish.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Gleam and Glow
The story of a family who fled from the Bosnian-Serb forces to a refugee camp in 1990. When they returned to their home in 1995 they found everything destroyed except 2 pet fish.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Hidden Child
A survivor of the Holocaust describes with illustrations and text his hiding in France during World War II and his search for his family and friends after the war.
| Author: Millman, Isaac |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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How Many Days to America?
The narrator, a child from an unnamed Caribbean island, escapes the soldiers and the island with his family and takes a dangerous boat trip back to the US. At the end they celebrate with a meal and give thanks.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
Both the close, personal view and the broader societal view of the U.S. and especially Japanese Americans during WW II are portrayed here. The text is illustrated with photographs taken at the time. An index and a few maps are also included.
| Author: Stanley, Jerry |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Long Walk to Water, A
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva D
| Author: Park, Linda Sue |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Remembering Manzanar
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government ordered forced evacuation of Japanese Americans who lived in the western U.S. This is the story of one relocation camp, Manzanar. The text is supported with archival photographs, end notes, Int
| Author: Cooper, Michael L. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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When I Left My Village
This book tells the story of an Ethiopian Jewish family and their emigration from their violent and oppressed village to Israel.
| Author: Shur, Maxine Rose |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > refugees > refugees survival
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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Long Walk to Water, A
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva D
| Author: Park, Linda Sue |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Midnight Zoo, The
When their Gypsy encampment is attacked by Germans during WWII, three Romanian children flee. In an abandoned town, they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories as everyone seeks to reclaim their lives and freedom.
| Author: Harnett, Sonya |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies | language arts - writing
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Mud City
Shauzia, with her dog, has fled Afghanistan and survives on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan, and in a refugee camp. This is the second part of a trilogy.
| Author: Ellis, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Parvana's Journey
Disguised as a boy, Parvana rescues a baby and joins with a young boy as she travels through war-torn Afghanistan searching for her family. The telling of the story through the child's perspective allows the reader to approach a sensitive current event an
| Author: Ellis, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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When I Left My Village
This book tells the story of an Ethiopian Jewish family and their emigration from their violent and oppressed village to Israel.
| Author: Shur, Maxine Rose |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Ziba Came on a Boat
This story is based on a real incident. Ziba and her mother run from their country because of fighting. They are on an overloaded boat coming to freedom. Ziba spends the time thinking of what she left behind, why she left her home and what the future wo
| Author: Lofthouse, Liz |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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History > topic > war > revolutions
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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Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Brief biographies of women who played key roles in the Revolutionary War. Makes the facts of Early American history come alive with lives of women who don't usually get mentioned in history books. Below each illustration is a time line of events.
| Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Brief biographies of women who played key roles in the Revolutionary War. Makes the facts of Early American history come alive with lives of women who don't usually get mentioned in history books. Below each illustration is a time line of events.
| Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Picture Book of Simon Bolivar, A
Adler describes Simon Bolivar's life and character, showing how his courage and dedication enabled him to achieve his goal: to liberate his native Venezuela from Spain.
| Author: Adler, David |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Washington at Valley Forge
In Freedman's inimitable style, he captures the grit and triumphs over the lack of provisions for General Washington's winter encampment at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. Excellent and unfamiliar paintings of Washington accompany the text. Th
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > Russian Revolution
Anastasia's Album
This biography of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, is told through photos and memorabilia and reveals the mystery behind her death.
| Author: Brewster, Hugh |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > soldiers
Boys' War, The
This award-winning book uses firsthand accounts of experiences to offer a look at the role of young (some as young as 12) soldiers in the Civil War.
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Civil War
Illustrations include photographs, posters, and paintings from the archives at the Library of Congress. Quotes from speeches and letters are sprinkled throughout. This book presents information about battles and soldiers' lives as well as the impact of
| Author: Sandler, Martin |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Day That Changed America, A :D-Day June 6, 1944
The story of D-day, the freeing of France from Nazi control. Told through four real men: a paratrooper, a medic, an infantryman, and a fighter pilot. It is illustrate with paintings and also uses actual photos. It gives reality to this historic event.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Day That Changed America, A :D-Day June 6, 1944
The story of D-day, the freeing of France from Nazi control. Told through four real men: a paratrooper, a medic, an infantryman, and a fighter pilot. It is illustrate with paintings and also uses actual photos. It gives reality to this historic event.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
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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Harlem Hellfighters, The
This book is mostly about the "Harlem Hellfighters," the 369th Infantry Regiment in WWI. This story is set in the larger context of the role of African American men in war prior to WWI.
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Truce
Ostensibly writing about the real "Christmas truce" of Dec. 25, 1914, the author provides excellent historical material about the origins and maneuvers of this period of World War I. Photographs give immediacy to the text and back pages and maps provide
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Truce
Ostensibly writing about the real "Christmas truce" of Dec. 25, 1914, the author provides excellent historical material about the origins and maneuvers of this period of World War I. Photographs give immediacy to the text and back pages and maps provide
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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War Boy: A Country Childhood
The author describes his childhood in a small coastal town in England, which was often bombed during WW II. He offers technical descriptions of gas masks, bomb shelters, etc., as well as describing the games children played and how they interacted with s
| Author: Foreman, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > soldiers > veterans
America's White Table
A simple story about a family's Veterans' Day dinner preparation is used to tell the true story of the white tables set for POWs/MIAs.
| Author: Raven, Margot |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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I Remember Korea
This collection of poignant and gripping memories of Korean War veterans includes archival photographs, a timeline, and Internet sites.
| Author: Granfield, Linda |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - writing
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Peace, Locomotion
This book is a collection of the letters and poems Lonnie, hero of the book Locomotion, writes to his sister Lili, who lives with a different foster parent than Lonnie does. The book is remarkably upbeat while dealing with the family issues that Lonnie an
| Author: Woodson, Jacqueline |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - writing
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Peace, Locomotion
This book is a collection of the letters and poems Lonnie, hero of the book Locomotion, writes to his sister Lili, who lives with a different foster parent than Lonnie does. The book is remarkably upbeat while dealing with the family issues that Lonnie an
| Author: Woodson, Jacqueline |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - writing
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Wall, The
In this emotionally charged book told from the point of view of the child, a boy and his dad look for the grandfather's name on the Vietnam Memorial.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > strategy
History > topic > war > Trojan War
Black Ships Before Troy
This beautifully illustrated book retells Homer's epic poem The Iliad about the Trojan War. A glossary of names is included.
| Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Dateline: Troy
A compelling retelling of the Trojan War story is juxtaposed with newspaper clippings (WWI--Gulf War). The clippings help to develop context for the story. They also reveal powerful parallels between the world of Homer's Iliad and our own.
| Author: Fleischman, Paul |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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History > topic > war > Vietnam
America's White Table
A simple story about a family's Veterans' Day dinner preparation is used to tell the true story of the white tables set for POWs/MIAs.
| Author: Raven, Margot |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Bee & Jacky
A brother and sister suffer the effects of their father's Vietnam trauma and their mother's ineffectualness by resuming a physical relationship. This moving, psychologically honest book is difficult to read because the real or imagined incest is portraye
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
This is an informative account of a child left behind when his American soldier father left Vietnam and his mother died. It traces his journey to America, his adopted family and his eventual return to his homeland to help orphans.
| Author: Warren, Andrea |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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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
|
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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Kennedy Through the Lens: How Photography and Television Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Leader
The highlights of John F. Kennedy's life is told through exquisite full-page photographs, accompanied by quotes and a summary of each event. All aspects of this man are beautifully shown, as a son, a brother, a father, an activist and a leader. The unde
| Author: Sandler, Martin W. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Wall, The
In this emotionally charged book told from the point of view of the child, a boy and his dad look for the grandfather's name on the Vietnam Memorial.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > War of 1812
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington
An easy-reading biography of Dolley Madison that focuses on her adult years, particularly as Jefferson's hostess in the White House and First Lady. Dolley Madison saved a large portrait of George Washington before the Brittish burned the White House.
| Author: Brown, Don |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Flag Maker, The
This is the story of the flag that prompted Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner. Events surrounding the attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore are also chronicled.
| Author: Bartoletti, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Once On This Island
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
| Author: Whelan, Gloria |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Salt: A Story of Friendship in Time of War
Set in the Indiana Territory, this story of two friends - Anikwa, a Miami Indian and James, the son of a white trader become friends despite the conflict of their heritage. This book is uniquely crafted in two style of poetic verse. Salt plays a symbolic
| Author: Frost, Helen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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History > topic > war > War of 1812 > Star Spangled Banner
By Dawn's Early Light
This is an historically accurate and beautifully illustrated account of how Francis Scott Key came to write "The Star Spangled Banner."
| Author: Kroll, Steven |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Flag Maker, The
This is the story of the flag that prompted Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner. Events surrounding the attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore are also chronicled.
| Author: Bartoletti, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > World War I
And the Soldiers Sang
A fictional story about the 1914 Christmas Truce of WW I when Allied and German soldiers came together in friendship on the battle field. Illustrated in graphic novel style haunting artwork, the writing cuts through the gloomy circumstances with examples
| Author: Lewis, J. Patrick |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Century That Was, The
Each of the 11 chapters of this fascinating look back at the 20th century focuses on a different topic: war, immigration, transportation, politics, religion, the environment, etc. Each chapter is written by a noted young adult author. Several different ty
| Author: Giblin, James Cross (Ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Darkness over Denmark
Written in the form of snippets of interviews, this book tells the stories of the Danish Resistance and the rescue of Jews in WW II. This is an important and inspiring story, which may be unknown to many.
| Author: Levine, Ellen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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E. E. Cummings
This extensive biography of the American poet and artist, E. E. Cummings, also conveys the history of the times, especially of artistic movements. Drawings, archival photographs, and segments of poems expand the biographical information.
| Author: Reef, Catherine |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Harlem Hellfighters, The
This book is mostly about the "Harlem Hellfighters," the 369th Infantry Regiment in WWI. This story is set in the larger context of the role of African American men in war prior to WWI.
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I
This book tells the story of the "Hell Fighters," a voluntary infantry that was one of the few African American regiments to see action during World War I.
| Author: Cooper, Michael L. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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In Flanders Field
Fascinating information about Word War I is interwoven with the poem "In Flanders Field" and details about its author and the soldiers who inspired it.
| Author: Granfield, Luida |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Language of Doves, The
On her sixth birthday, Julietta's grandfather gives her one of his homing pigeons and tells her about his experiences raising and training doves for military use in Italy during WWI.
| Author: Wells, Rosemary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Little History of the World, The
Originally written in 1936 by a famous art historian and published in a new translation in 2005, this Euro-centric view of world events provides an accessible panorama of history, generalized but with sufficient detail to be interesting. Occasionally the
Nellie Bly
This biography recounts the life of the woman who opened up the field of journalism to women through her undercover investigative reporting during the turn of the century through WW I.
| Author: Fredeen, Charles |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Night the Bells Rang, The
This short novel (76 pages), told from the point of view of a farm boy, tells the story of Mason's struggles with a bully, and of his growing up. Although the book has the feel of a reminiscence, the emotions are complex and the characters ring true.
| Author: Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie |
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Something out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radiation
This is a very readable biography of Marie Curie and her discovery of radiation.
| Author: McClafferty, Carla |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Starting Home
The full title of this book is Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter. Lyons tells the story of Pippin, an African-American painter, with a style that makes compelling reading. The book chronicles the effect of history and the impac
| Author: Lyons, Mary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Timelines Flight: Fliers and Flying Machines
This nonfiction book contains information related to aviation and aviators (starting with Daedalus and Icarus). The book is densely illustrated; all illustrations are captioned, and some are labeled. A time line, a glossary, and an index conclude the bo
| Author: Jefferis, David |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Truce
Ostensibly writing about the real "Christmas truce" of Dec. 25, 1914, the author provides excellent historical material about the origins and maneuvers of this period of World War I. Photographs give immediacy to the text and back pages and maps provide
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Truce
Ostensibly writing about the real "Christmas truce" of Dec. 25, 1914, the author provides excellent historical material about the origins and maneuvers of this period of World War I. Photographs give immediacy to the text and back pages and maps provide
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Waiting for the Evening Star
This beautifully illustrated book is about Berty, a small boy who lives a happy life in a Vermont farming community. Berty's life changes when his older brother, Luke, decides to leave the family farm to become a soldier in WWI.
| Author: Wells, Rosemary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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War Game
Based on true events, this book tells about a group of boys who go to fight in the trenches of WWI. It describes the incident of one amazing Christmas when all animosities are put aside. The powerful anti-war message is accompanied by charming watercolo
| Author: Foreman, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > World War II
After the War Was Over
In this charming book, Michael Foreman describes growing up in post-World War II England and preparing to be an artist. His text, watercolors, and illustrated memorabilia evoke innocence and pleasure in a world recovering from war.
| Author: Foreman, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Angels of Mercy
This book is about the army nurses of WW II. Chapters about WW II in general, about nurses in Europe, and about nurses in the Pacific are loosely connected. Some text recounts important events of the war; other portions tell more personal recollections. I
| Author: Kuhn, Betsy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Subtitled "The true story of the day America entered World War II," this book describes the attack on Pearl Harbor from the perspectives of four people, both Japanese and American. Excerpts about others who were influenced by the attack are also provided,
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Baseball Saved Us
A young boy in an internment camp finds baseball to be his saving grace, although his determination and spirit is what sees him through.
| Author: Mochizuki, Ken |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Black and White Airmen: Their True Story
The history of airmen in WWII is told through the experiences of two men from Cincinnati, one African American and one Caucasian. Information about race relations at the time is woven throughout the narrative.
| Author: Fleischman, John |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Children of Topaz, The
The authors provide an introduction to the history of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II as well as a Reference and Reading List. The book is a journal kept by a third-grade class taught by Anne Yamauchi in such a camp
| Author: Tunnell, Michael & Chilcoat, George |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Code Talkers
After attending a white boarding school where his Navajo language and culture were belittled and punished, Ned Begay served as a code talker with the US Marines during operations in the Pacific during World War II. The narrator tells his story to his gra
| Author: Bruchac, Joseph |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Coming On Home Soon
A kitten comforts a young African American girl as she and her grandmother wait for the mother's return from working in Chicago during World War II.
| Author: Woodson, Jaqueline |
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Day That Changed America, A :D-Day June 6, 1944
The story of D-day, the freeing of France from Nazi control. Told through four real men: a paratrooper, a medic, an infantryman, and a fighter pilot. It is illustrate with paintings and also uses actual photos. It gives reality to this historic event.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Day That Changed America, A :D-Day June 6, 1944
The story of D-day, the freeing of France from Nazi control. Told through four real men: a paratrooper, a medic, an infantryman, and a fighter pilot. It is illustrate with paintings and also uses actual photos. It gives reality to this historic event.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedman relates this biography of Eleanor Roosevelt with the interest of suspense fiction which is accompanied by extensive archival photographs. The book traces her evolution from a shy young girl from an unhappy home to America's most acclaimed First
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Faithful Elephants: A True Story
During WW II many zoo animals starved, by order of the Army, or had to be killed. The story, set in a Tokyo zoo, shows animals' helplessness in the face of human destruction.
| Author: Tsuchiya, Yukio |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Farm Summer 1942, The
Beautifully illustrated by Barry Moser, this reminiscence tells the story of a young boy's summer months at his grandparent's farm during World War II.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Russell Freedman scores his usual high marks for this biography of FDR, complete with excellent archival photographs and bibliographical information for further study.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Russell Freedman scores his usual high marks for this biography of FDR, complete with excellent archival photographs and bibliographical information for further study.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, The
Although the authors found little documentary evidence to substantiate the oral stories of how Jews were sheltered in the Grand Mosque and given Arab identity cards during the Nazi occupation of Paris in WW II, they tell an important story with excellent
| Author: Ruelle, Karen Gray |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, The
Although the authors found little documentary evidence to substantiate the oral stories of how Jews were sheltered in the Grand Mosque and given Arab identity cards during the Nazi occupation of Paris in WW II, they tell an important story with excellent
| Author: Ruelle, Karen Gray |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Hammerin' Hank Grenberg: Baseball Pioneer
The story of Hank Greenberg, first Jewish ballplayer inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Sommer explores the world of baseball as it became more inclusive and gives details of how Greenberg was an exceptional player.
| Author: Sommer, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Heroes
Donnie, a Japanese American boy, finally escapes the role of "bad guy" in war games with his peers with the help of his father and uncle.
I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
Both the close, personal view and the broader societal view of the U.S. and especially Japanese Americans during WW II are portrayed here. The text is illustrated with photographs taken at the time. An index and a few maps are also included.
| Author: Stanley, Jerry |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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I Have Seen Castles
A 67-year-old man remembers growing up in Pittsburgh and falling in love with a young woman pacifist who couldn't understand why he would want to go overseas to fight.
Importance of Oskar Schindler, The
This biography of Oskar Schindler focuses on his heroic actions to save Jews from persecution and death. A great deal of general information about WW II in Europe is also provided. (Note: This is a violent book because of the subject matter.)
| Author: Roberts, Jack L. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Let the Celebrations Begin!
During WW II, in the concentration camps, women hoarded buttons and odds and ends in order to make the children dolls and presents for the day they would be released. Although the art has been criticized for being too whimsical for its grim subject matte
| Author: Wild, Margaret |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Love You, Soldier
This touching story about the effects of WW II on one family is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Katie. (NOTE: This is a short chapter book that will be very easy for students to read.)
| Author: Hest, Amy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
During the occupation of Germany after WW II, a young girl writes a letter to an American airlift pilot who drops chocolates to children. The author includes a biography of Col. Halvorsen, "the chocolate pilot" of the title.
Number the Stars
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. It is about the power of the Danish Resistance, heroes of a nation, the power of human decency over th
| Author: Lowry, Lois |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
|
October 45
Subtitled "Childhood Memories of the War," this book tells the author's observations of life from September, 1939, when France and England enter the war against Germany, through October, 1945, when Besson goes back to school in peace for the first time.
| Author: Besson, Jean Louis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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One More Border
Illustrated with paintings, documents, and photos, this is the true story of a family's escape from war-torn Europe during WW II.
| Author: Kaplan, William |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
One family in the USA begins an effort to help those in Europe suffering from the aftermath of WWII by sending shoes and other needed supplies.
| Author: Judge, Lita |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Our Eleanor
Organized like a scrapbook with themed chronological divisions that contain short texts, this very personable and balanced biography of Eleanor Roosevelt emphasizes her complexity and self-growth and her evolution as a political activist. The author incl
| Author: Fleming, Candace |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Passage to Freedom
Hiroki Sugihara tells the true story of how his father, who was Japanese consul to Lithuania during World War II, issued visas to Jews to escape the Nazis without the approval of his government. The afterword supplements the story with the consequences o
| Author: Mochizuki, Ken |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower, A
This is another in the series of excellent biographies by David Adler. It's a cradle-to-grave glimpse at Ike. It is easy to know Eisenhower through Adler's carefully placed quotes and primary source photographs.
| Author: Adler, David |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Picture Book of Jesse Owens, A
This very readable biography tells the life story of Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympic star, and the prejudice he combated throughout his life. The book ends with a page of notes and a page of dates.
| Author: Adler, David |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Rosie the Riveter
This carefully researched book tells the story of the millions of women who worked in factories during WW II, how they got there, and how they were persuaded to return home after the war was over. The volume is illustrated with archival photographs and c
| Author: Colman, Penny |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Shadow Children, The
While visiting his grandfather in France, Etienne discovers a secret from the days of World War II and the Nazis.
| Author: Schnur, Steven |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Timelines Flight: Fliers and Flying Machines
This nonfiction book contains information related to aviation and aviators (starting with Daedalus and Icarus). The book is densely illustrated; all illustrations are captioned, and some are labeled. A time line, a glossary, and an index conclude the bo
| Author: Jefferis, David |
HSE Descriptors:
science
|
Unbreakable Code, The
A young Navajo boy, who must leave his Southwest home, draws courage from his grandfather's story about being a "Code Talker" during WWII.
| Author: Hunter, Sara |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Under the Shadow of Wings
Obie, a developmentally disabled boy dies causing a variety of emotional response from his friend Tatnall, an 11-year-old girl.
V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII
This amazingly detailed book provides the reader with a capsule history of one of the most horrific wars in history. The photographs, maps, headlines, etc. add to the books impact. This is a perfect reference book. Open this book to all the drama, passion
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Where the Action Was
These somewhat uneven memoirs chronicle the experiences of women journalists and photographers during WW II.
| Author: Colman, Penny |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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With a Hammer for My Heart
When 15-year-old Lawanda befriends a WW II veteran living in an old school bus, she sets in motion events that will change her life and all those around her. The well-written story unfolds with each chapter telling the story from the point of view of eac
| Author: Lyon, George Ella |
|
History > topic > war > World War II > atom bomb
Faithful Elephants: A True Story
During WW II many zoo animals starved, by order of the Army, or had to be killed. The story, set in a Tokyo zoo, shows animals' helplessness in the face of human destruction.
| Author: Tsuchiya, Yukio |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
My Hiroshima
This book tells the story of a Japanese survivor of the atomic bomb and offers a perspective on how the "enemy" suffered too.
| Author: Morimoto, Junko |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
On the Wings of Peace
This is a collection of illustrations and various types of text, all provided by noted authors and illustrators, that focus on issues related to peace. Many cultures are represented among characters and in illustrations.
| Author: Hamanaka, Sheila (comp.) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Shin's Tricycle
This powerful story tells about the effects of the atom bomb on an ordinary Japanese family, especially on the little boy Shin. It ends with an author's note about the Peace Museum.
| Author: Kodama, Tatsuharu |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > World War II > concentration/internment camps
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Author's memoir of the years that shaped her childhood as her Jewish family is trapped in Nazi Germany, sent to prison camps, and escapes to the United States.
| Author: Perl, Lila and Blumenthal, Marion Lazan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Hana's Suitcase
When a suitcase with Hana Brady's name on it arrives at the Toyko Children's Holocaust Education Center, the children have many question about who Hana might have been. In an effort to answer those questions, Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, begins a
| Author: Levine, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
This book consists of poems and drawings done by children living in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, a solid introduction, and historical information stating the fates of the children authors/artists. Students and tea
| Author: Volavkova, Hana (Ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II
This amazing book takes the reader inside the internment camps and shows the fortitude of the people who survived and thrived despite the hardships imposed on them. An amazing book for readers of all ages. Beautiful photos add to the text.
| Author: Sandler, Martin W. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
In Memory's Kitchen
While prisoners in Teresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, Jewish women created a book of recipes of foods remembered. The introduction relates the fascinating history of this unique cookbook.
| Author: De Silva, Cara |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Journey, The
The text tells the history of the Japanese in America. The photographs depict sections of an enormous mural which the author created to "open the past, hoping to chase away the demons of prejudice and injustice."
| Author: Hamanaka, Sheila |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Let the Celebrations Begin!
During WW II, in the concentration camps, women hoarded buttons and odds and ends in order to make the children dolls and presents for the day they would be released. Although the art has been criticized for being too whimsical for its grim subject matte
| Author: Wild, Margaret |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Luba, the Angel of Bergen-Belsen
This is the story of Luba Tryszynska, a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who hid 52 abandoned Jewish children until the camp was liberated. Front and back matter establish the historical context with a map and a bibliography. An epilogue tel
| Author: McCann, Michelle R. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
This is the first of two volumes about the experiences of the author's parents in the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. The author depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in his illustrations.
| Author: Spiegelman, Art |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale
A powerful graphic novel about a father who survived the Nazi concentration camps and his son in which Jews are depicted as mice and Nazis as cats. The story jumps back and forth between the present life in the Catskills and the past life in the camps.
| Author: Spiegelman, Art |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
My Secret Camera
As a young man in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, Mendel Grossman, secretly took hundreds of photographs to document the miserable life of the people in the ghetto and their struggles for survival. Simple text accompanies the photographs.
| Author: Smith, Frank Dabba |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
A touching recounting of a Jewish child's survival in Nazi Poland. Hidden with her Catholic nanny, Anita and her younger brother are hidden for years but are eventually caught and imprisoned. After freedom, they are both sent to a sanatorium for tubercul
| Author: Lobel, Anita |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Real Time
A gripping story told in real time (hence the title)from the viewpoints of several characters involved in the bombing of an Israeli bus.
| Author: Kass, Pnina Moed |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Sarah's Key
The story of the roundup of the Jews in France during WWII. A heart-wrenching look at the infamous collaboration of French officials with the Nazis It is told through two people: a 10-year-old Jewish girl and an American journalist 60 years later.
| Author: de Rosnay, Tatiana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
|
V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII
This amazingly detailed book provides the reader with a capsule history of one of the most horrific wars in history. The photographs, maps, headlines, etc. add to the books impact. This is a perfect reference book. Open this book to all the drama, passion
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic >war> World War II > concentration/internment camps > Japanese internment camps
Angel Island
An historical account of the discrimination against the Asian immigrants in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Angel Island, located near Alcatraz Island, was the Ellis Island of the west coast of the U.S. but was more of a prison than a welcoming center. Drawi
| Author: Russell Freedman |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
|
Baseball Saved Us
A young boy in an internment camp finds baseball to be his saving grace, although his determination and spirit is what sees him through.
| Author: Mochizuki, Ken |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Children of Topaz, The
The authors provide an introduction to the history of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II as well as a Reference and Reading List. The book is a journal kept by a third-grade class taught by Anne Yamauchi in such a camp
| Author: Tunnell, Michael & Chilcoat, George |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Home of the Brave
In a dream-like story and illustrations, Allen Say captures the infamy, dislocation, and loss experienced by Japanese Americans in the internment camps during World War II.
| Author: Say, Allen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
Both the close, personal view and the broader societal view of the U.S. and especially Japanese Americans during WW II are portrayed here. The text is illustrated with photographs taken at the time. An index and a few maps are also included.
| Author: Stanley, Jerry |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II
This amazing book takes the reader inside the internment camps and shows the fortitude of the people who survived and thrived despite the hardships imposed on them. An amazing book for readers of all ages. Beautiful photos add to the text.
| Author: Sandler, Martin W. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Mei Ling in China City
Twelve year old Mei Ling Lee helps her parents during the Moon Festival celebration and raises money for Chinese women and children refugees in 1942. She also has a friend whose family was relocated to Manzanar War Relocation Center because she is Japanes
| Author: Smith, Icy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Mei Ling in China City
Twelve year old Mei Ling Lee helps her parents during the Moon Festival celebration and raises money for Chinese women and children refugees in 1942. She also has a friend whose family was relocated to Manzanar War Relocation Center because she is Japanes
| Author: Smith, Icy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Remembering Manzanar
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government ordered forced evacuation of Japanese Americans who lived in the western U.S. This is the story of one relocation camp, Manzanar. The text is supported with archival photographs, end notes, Int
| Author: Cooper, Michael L. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
So Far From the Sea
A Japanese American visits Manazar, a Japanese relocation camp in World War II, to visit the grave of a grandfather.
| Author: Bunting, Eve |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII
This amazingly detailed book provides the reader with a capsule history of one of the most horrific wars in history. The photographs, maps, headlines, etc. add to the books impact. This is a perfect reference book. Open this book to all the drama, passion
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > World War II > Dunkirk
Little Ships, The
The book tells the story of an English girl and her father who participate in the real armada of fishing boats that evacuated allied soldiers from Dunkirk in World War II. A Foreword and an Author's Note provide supplementary historical information.
| Author: Borden, Louise |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > World War II > Holocaust
Anne Frank
If you wonder why read another book on Anne Frank, look at this beautifully and realistically illustrated story that simply relates the political situation and gives the characters more three-dimensional personalities. A chronology in the end papers adds
| Author: Poole, Josephine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Anne Frank
If you wonder why read another book on Anne Frank, look at this beautifully and realistically illustrated story that simply relates the political situation and gives the characters more three-dimensional personalities. A chronology in the end papers adds
| Author: Poole, Josephine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
This nonfiction reference book is filled with photographs and details about Anne Frank, her family, and the world in which she lived.
| Author: Verhoeven, Rian & van der Rol, Ruud |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Bearing Witness
This selection of powerful personal stories of the Holocaust in various literary and artistic forms gives testimony of the extraordinary bravery of ordinary people. A map of concentration camps, a bibliography, and brief introductory notes for each excer
| Author: Rochman, Hazel & McCampbell, Darlene (Eds.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-with" (Auschwitz) in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Bruno climbs into the camp to spend more time with hi
| Author: Boyne, John |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
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
|
Cats in Krasinski Square, The
With a simple text and marvelous watercolors, Hesse tells a true story of the bravery of the Jewish Resistance who helped the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. End matter provides more historical background.
| Author: Hesse, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Children We Remember, The
Archive photographs and a simple text tell the story of the Nazis' attempt to starve and kill the Jews during WW II.
| Author: Abells, Chana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Christmas Tapestry
While seeking to renovate their church, a minister and his son help reunite a Jewish couple separated in World War II.
| Author: Polacco, Patricia |
|
Escaping into the Night
Thirteen year old Halina escapes from a Polish ghetto to a forest community of Jews where she and her friends Batya and Reuven learn to survive despite brutality, extreme hardship, and loss of family. Although this book is fiction, there were real commu
| Author: Friedman, D. Dina |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Author's memoir of the years that shaped her childhood as her Jewish family is trapped in Nazi Germany, sent to prison camps, and escapes to the United States.
| Author: Perl, Lila and Blumenthal, Marion Lazan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Hana's Suitcase
When a suitcase with Hana Brady's name on it arrives at the Toyko Children's Holocaust Education Center, the children have many question about who Hana might have been. In an effort to answer those questions, Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, begins a
| Author: Levine, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Hidden Child
A survivor of the Holocaust describes with illustrations and text his hiding in France during World War II and his search for his family and friends after the war.
| Author: Millman, Isaac |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Hitler Youth
By following a dozen German youth, the author examines the attraction and occasionally the resistance of the role of the Hitler youth movement in Nazi Germany. The author includes additional material for further exploration.
| Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading | science
|
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
This book consists of poems and drawings done by children living in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, a solid introduction, and historical information stating the fates of the children authors/artists. Students and tea
| Author: Volavkova, Hana (Ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Importance of Oskar Schindler, The
This biography of Oskar Schindler focuses on his heroic actions to save Jews from persecution and death. A great deal of general information about WW II in Europe is also provided. (Note: This is a violent book because of the subject matter.)
| Author: Roberts, Jack L. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
In Memory's Kitchen
While prisoners in Teresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, Jewish women created a book of recipes of foods remembered. The introduction relates the fascinating history of this unique cookbook.
| Author: De Silva, Cara |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Luba, the Angel of Bergen-Belsen
This is the story of Luba Tryszynska, a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who hid 52 abandoned Jewish children until the camp was liberated. Front and back matter establish the historical context with a map and a bibliography. An epilogue tel
| Author: McCann, Michelle R. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
This is the first of two volumes about the experiences of the author's parents in the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. The author depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in his illustrations.
| Author: Spiegelman, Art |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale
A powerful graphic novel about a father who survived the Nazi concentration camps and his son in which Jews are depicted as mice and Nazis as cats. The story jumps back and forth between the present life in the Catskills and the past life in the camps.
| Author: Spiegelman, Art |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Memories of Survival
A mother and daughter create a narrative in stitchery and text of the mother's life in Poland during the Nazi occupation.This collection of memories of the holocaust provides a first hand account of danger, despair and hope. The detailed tapestries provid
| Author: Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal & Steinhardt, Bernice |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Midnight Zoo, The
When their Gypsy encampment is attacked by Germans during WWII, three Romanian children flee. In an abandoned town, they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories as everyone seeks to reclaim their lives and freedom.
| Author: Harnett, Sonya |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies | language arts - writing
|
My Secret Camera
As a young man in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, Mendel Grossman, secretly took hundreds of photographs to document the miserable life of the people in the ghetto and their struggles for survival. Simple text accompanies the photographs.
| Author: Smith, Frank Dabba |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
A touching recounting of a Jewish child's survival in Nazi Poland. Hidden with her Catholic nanny, Anita and her younger brother are hidden for years but are eventually caught and imprisoned. After freedom, they are both sent to a sanatorium for tubercul
| Author: Lobel, Anita |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story
Morris Kaplan, a Holocaust survivor, owns a flower shop that two children visit each Friday to buy Sabbath flowers. The children are surprised to learn that their friend Morris hasn't celebrated Hanukkah since his childhood. They insist that he join the
| Author: Adler, David |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Picture Book of Anne Frank, A
This picture book retells the familiar story made famous by the The Diary of Anne Frank of a young Jewish girl who goes into hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Although the book includes a few quotati
| Author: Adler, David |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Rescued Images
The author contributes a moving and strikingly illustrated memoir of her experience of being a "hidden child" in Holland during World War II and its far-reaching effect.
| Author: Jacobsen, Ruth |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Rose Blanche
A young girl shares her food with those behind barbed wire in Nazi Germany. The title was the name of the German resistance movement during Hitler's regime.
| Author: Innocenti, Roberto |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Sarah's Key
The story of the roundup of the Jews in France during WWII. A heart-wrenching look at the infamous collaboration of French officials with the Nazis It is told through two people: a 10-year-old Jewish girl and an American journalist 60 years later.
| Author: de Rosnay, Tatiana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
|
Shadow Children, The
While visiting his grandfather in France, Etienne discovers a secret from the days of World War II and the Nazis.
| Author: Schnur, Steven |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
As a young girl living in France during the Nazi occupation, Helen can't understand why her best friend Lydia must wear a yellow star. The friends part when Lydia leaves a birthday party to warn her family that the Nazis are rounding up Jews. The friend
| Author: Hoestlandt, Jo |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII
This amazingly detailed book provides the reader with a capsule history of one of the most horrific wars in history. The photographs, maps, headlines, etc. add to the books impact. This is a perfect reference book. Open this book to all the drama, passion
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > World War II > Nazi Germany
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-with" (Auschwitz) in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Bruno climbs into the camp to spend more time with hi
| Author: Boyne, John |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Cat with the Yellow Star, The: Coming of Age in Terezin
Ela Weissberger's life before, during, and after she and her family were forced to live in the Jewish ghetto of Terezin during WWII. Photographs reinforce Ela's memories of survival and hope.
| Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Disaster of the Hindenburg, The
The author describes the last flight of the Hindenburg through the eyes of some if the passengers and crew. Included are pictures and diagrams of the great airship.
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Author's memoir of the years that shaped her childhood as her Jewish family is trapped in Nazi Germany, sent to prison camps, and escapes to the United States.
| Author: Perl, Lila and Blumenthal, Marion Lazan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
|
Hitler Youth
By following a dozen German youth, the author examines the attraction and occasionally the resistance of the role of the Hitler youth movement in Nazi Germany. The author includes additional material for further exploration.
| Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading | science
|
Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, The
The book provides an insightful and well written biography of Adolf Hitler. The book gives an historical prospective of the time in which Hitler lived to add to the understanding of the biography. The book is well written and gives interesting details abo
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Midnight Zoo, The
When their Gypsy encampment is attacked by Germans during WWII, three Romanian children flee. In an abandoned town, they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories as everyone seeks to reclaim their lives and freedom.
| Author: Harnett, Sonya |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies | language arts - writing
|
Nazi Olympics, The
Published by the U. S. National Holocaust Museum, this history documents the manipulation of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin by Hitler and the Nazi party and presents the controversy of whether to participate or not on the part of nations and individuals. Ar
| Author: Bachrach, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Rose Blanche
A young girl shares her food with those behind barbed wire in Nazi Germany. The title was the name of the German resistance movement during Hitler's regime.
| Author: Innocenti, Roberto |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII
This amazingly detailed book provides the reader with a capsule history of one of the most horrific wars in history. The photographs, maps, headlines, etc. add to the books impact. This is a perfect reference book. Open this book to all the drama, passion
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
History > topic > war > World War II > Nazis
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
|
Children We Remember, The
Archive photographs and a simple text tell the story of the Nazis' attempt to starve and kill the Jews during WW II.
| Author: Abells, Chana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Darkness over Denmark
Written in the form of snippets of interviews, this book tells the stories of the Danish Resistance and the rescue of Jews in WW II. This is an important and inspiring story, which may be unknown to many.
| Author: Levine, Ellen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, The
Although the authors found little documentary evidence to substantiate the oral stories of how Jews were sheltered in the Grand Mosque and given Arab identity cards during the Nazi occupation of Paris in WW II, they tell an important story with excellent
| Author: Ruelle, Karen Gray |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, The
Although the authors found little documentary evidence to substantiate the oral stories of how Jews were sheltered in the Grand Mosque and given Arab identity cards during the Nazi occupation of Paris in WW II, they tell an important story with excellent
| Author: Ruelle, Karen Gray |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, The
The book provides an insightful and well written biography of Adolf Hitler. The book gives an historical prospective of the time in which Hitler lived to add to the understanding of the biography. The book is well written and gives interesting details abo
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
This is the first of two volumes about the experiences of the author's parents in the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. The author depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in his illustrations.
| Author: Spiegelman, Art |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Memories of Survival
A mother and daughter create a narrative in stitchery and text of the mother's life in Poland during the Nazi occupation.This collection of memories of the holocaust provides a first hand account of danger, despair and hope. The detailed tapestries provid
| Author: Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal & Steinhardt, Bernice |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
As a young girl living in France during the Nazi occupation, Helen can't understand why her best friend Lydia must wear a yellow star. The friends part when Lydia leaves a birthday party to warn her family that the Nazis are rounding up Jews. The friend
| Author: Hoestlandt, Jo |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > topic > war > WW II
History > topic > war > WW II > Warsaw Ghetto
Cats in Krasinski Square, The
With a simple text and marvelous watercolors, Hesse tells a true story of the bravery of the Jewish Resistance who helped the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. End matter provides more historical background.
| Author: Hesse, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
A touching recounting of a Jewish child's survival in Nazi Poland. Hidden with her Catholic nanny, Anita and her younger brother are hidden for years but are eventually caught and imprisoned. After freedom, they are both sent to a sanatorium for tubercul
| Author: Lobel, Anita |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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History > topic > war > WWII
History > topic > war > WWII > Pearl Harbor
Angels of Mercy
This book is about the army nurses of WW II. Chapters about WW II in general, about nurses in Europe, and about nurses in the Pacific are loosely connected. Some text recounts important events of the war; other portions tell more personal recollections. I
| Author: Kuhn, Betsy |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Subtitled "The true story of the day America entered World War II," this book describes the attack on Pearl Harbor from the perspectives of four people, both Japanese and American. Excerpts about others who were influenced by the attack are also provided,
| Author: Tanaka, Shelley |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Russell Freedman scores his usual high marks for this biography of FDR, complete with excellent archival photographs and bibliographical information for further study.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Russell Freedman scores his usual high marks for this biography of FDR, complete with excellent archival photographs and bibliographical information for further study.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Remembering Manzanar
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government ordered forced evacuation of Japanese Americans who lived in the western U.S. This is the story of one relocation camp, Manzanar. The text is supported with archival photographs, end notes, Int
| Author: Cooper, Michael L. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII
This amazingly detailed book provides the reader with a capsule history of one of the most horrific wars in history. The photographs, maps, headlines, etc. add to the books impact. This is a perfect reference book. Open this book to all the drama, passion
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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