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The Secret Cave

Discovering Lascaux

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not...

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Energy Island

How one community harnessed the wind and changed their world

Allan Drummond Frances Foster Books

Hold onto your hats! It's windy on the Danish island of Samso. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now proudly call their home Energy Island. At a...

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The Longitude Prize

Joan Dash; Illustrated by Dusan Petricic Frances Foster Books

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book By the start of the eighteenth century, many thousands of sailors had perished at sea because their captains had no way of...

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A Dangerous Engine

Benjamin Franklin, from Scientist to Diplomat

Joan Dash; Pictures by Dusan Petricic Frances Foster Books

At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe,...

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The Night of the Burning

Devorah's Story

Linda Press Wulf Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Devorah’s world is shattered by the tragedies of post–Great War Europe: gas poisoning, famine, typhoid, and influenza. Then comes the Night of the Burning,...

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The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer

Ann Arnold; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

In 1837, when Alexis Soyer was just twenty-five years old, he became head chef at the exclusive Reform Club in London on the condition that he be allowed to...

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Sholom's Treasure

How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer

Erica Silverman; Pictures by Mordicai Gerstein Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The boy whose stories became Fiddler on the Roof Sholom Aleichem's favorite childhood memory may have been listening as his father read stories aloud on...

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Sword Song

Rosemary Sutcliff Sunburst Paperbacks

Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home...

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The Wall

Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Sis Frances Foster Books

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...

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In Defiance of Hitler

The Secret Mission of Varian Fry

Carla Killough McClafferty Farrar, Straus and Giroux

On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately...

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The Search

Eric Heuvel, Ruud van der Rol, and Lies Schippers; Translated by Lorraine T. Miller Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper

Esther remembers her own experience of the Holocaust as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, and recounts to her grandson Daniel and his friend Jeroen how she...

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A Day of Pleasure

Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Isaac Bashevis Singer; Photographs by Roman Vishniac Sunburst Paperbacks

An ALA Notable Book. A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.

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The Apprentice

Pilar Molina Llorente; Pictures by Juan Ramón Alonso; Translated by Robin Longshaw Sunburst Paperbacks

In Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old apprentice Arduino's dreams of being a painter are challenged after he discovers the extreme measures the Maestro...

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Hidden Child

Isaac Millman Frances Foster Books

A powerful story of survival, loss, and hope Isaac was seven when the Germans invaded France and his life changed forever. First his father was taken away,...

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