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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
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Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured... [More...]


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Pilgrims of Plymouth
Goodman, Susan E.
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What was it like to be a pilgrim child in 17th-century Massachusetts? This charming picture book takes young readers back in time to see. For one thing, pilgrim children didn't go to school. Instead, they helped their parents with chores and played games... [More...]


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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Coerr, Eleanor
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After several dizzy spells send Hiroshima-born Sadako to the doctor, the budding school track star finds out she has leukemia—known as the "atom bomb disease." But she faces life with spirit and bravery. And a legend says that if she folds 1,000 paper... [More...]


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A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror
Zinn, Howard
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Now revised and updated, this classic telling of American history is a companion volume to "The People Speak," Zinn's forthcoming televised series, adapted from "A People's History of the United States." 50 illustrations & photos.


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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Coerr, Eleanor
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Based on a true story, young Sadako faces the battle of her life when she is diagnosed with "atomic bomb disease" (leukemia). She turns to her native Japanese beliefs and makes one thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her wish to be well.


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Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Warren, Andrea
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Award-winning author Warren combines haunting photographs from World War II concentration camps with the inspiring words of Jack Mandelbaum to tell the powerful true story of a boy becoming a man during the Holocaust.


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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
Bitton-Jackson, Livia
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A graphic narrative describes what happens to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. Includes a brief chronology of the Holocaust.


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American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Murphy, Jim
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In a powerful narrative, Murphy describes the illness that took its toll on the residents of Philadelphia in 1793, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. Illustrated with... [More...]


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America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell
Brown, Don
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On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day. The events of September 11, 2001 changed the world forever. In the fourth installment of the... [More...]


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Mummies and Pyramids: A Nonfiction Companion to Mummies in the Morning
Osborne, Will
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How were pyramids built? Why did people make mummies? What magic charms were buried with mummies? Who discovered King Tut's tomb? Unwrap the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide #3: Mummies and Pyramids, Jack and... [More...]


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