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This morning the earth shook and threw us from our beds. We were not hurt, just stunned. Drawers spilled, dishes crashed, pots and pans clanged as they...
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1968, THE YEAR AMERICA GREW UP From racial and gender equality fights to the struggle against the draft and the Vietnam war, in 1968 Americans asked...
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Arctic Memories
Normee Ekoomiak; Illustrated by the author
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Text in both Inuktitut and English describes a now vanished way of life for the Inuit.
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Brenda Z. Guiberson; illustrations by Brenda Z. Guiberson
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Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature...
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Trial
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Patrick O'Brien
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Boxing in Black and White
Peter Bacho
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"Boxing's like an addiction, it just gets in the blood." --Bobby Howard, trainer and ex-middleweight fighter Punch-by punch accounts of key heavyweight...
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Nancy Garden
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What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening...
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New York Times When the Wall Came Down
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Serge Schmemann
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Simon Adams
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The Peace Bell
Margi Preus; illustrations by Hideko Takahashi
Henry Holt and Co.
Yuko’s grandmother remembers that when she was a little girl many years ago in Japan, her town’s beautiful temple bell was taken away to be used as scrap metal...
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Rosa
Nikki Giovanni; Illustrated by Bryan Collier
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Winner of the Caldecott Honor Medal and the Coretta Scott King Medal, this picture book tribute to Rosa Parks celebrates the 50th anniversary of her refusal to...
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