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The Cage
Ruth Minsky Sender, Jim Coon
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Current:
9.8 |
From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will. more]
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The Double Life of Pocahontas
Jean Fritz
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Current:
9.7 |
"Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from (the Pocahontas) legend and turns history into engrossing reality".--The New Yorker. Boston Globe/Horn Book Award; ALA Notable Children's Book. more]
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Herstory : Women Who Changed the World
Ruth Ashby
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Current:
9.7 |
Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had an older sister who was another musical genius? Musicologists even speculate that some compositions attributed to Mozart were actually the work of his sister. Nannerl Mozart is just one example
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Almost Lost : The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets
Beatrice Sparks, James Jennings
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Current:
9.5 |
The true story of a suicidally depressed teenage boy discusses the events that led to his leaving home, his attempts to survive on the streets, his desperation to escape a brutal gang, and his fight with self-hatred. more]
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Freedom's Children : Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
Ellen Levine
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Current:
9.5 |
Filled with inspiring accounts of faith and courage, this book rescues and preserves the stories of children and teenagers who contributed to the civil rights movement. All of us know, for example, of Rosa Parks, whose refusal in 1955 to gi
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Going Solo
Roald Dahl
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Current:
9.5 |
The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting— and frighteningly near-death— experi
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My American Adventure : Big Things Happen When You Reach Really High
Amy Burritt, Amy Buritt
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Current:
9.5 |
A teenage girl's account of her family's journey from the rat-race of every day life to an amazing adventure. This true-life book chronicles 12-year-old Amy Burritt's remarkable, year-long journey with her family across America to meet all
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The Road from Home : The Story of Armenian Girl (Newbery Honor Bk)
David Kherdian
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Current:
9.4 |
A biography of the author's mother concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population. Read more
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Upon the Head of the Goat : A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
Aranka Siegal
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Current:
9.4 |
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto. more]
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Thomas Jefferson : Man on a Mountain
Natalie S. Bober
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Current:
9.4 |
Natalie Bober's critically acclaimed biography of Thomas Jefferson brings a human dimension to this president. This comprehensive biography includes a wealth of helpful supplemental material. "A marvelously readable and informative biograph
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The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
John Steinbeck, Robert Demott (Introduction)
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Current:
9.3 |
When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the
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The Midwife's Apprentice (Newbery Medal Book, 1996)
Karen Cushman, Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.2 |
Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history. In The Midwife's Apprentice, which earned the 1996 Newbery Medal, this makes a winning combination
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Sarah Bishop
Scott O'Dell
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Current:
9.0 |
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite sides in the War of Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness. "An engro
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Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer
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Current:
8.9 |
Teen fans of the movie Elizabeth will be fascinated with the pomp and sinister intrigue of Mary, Bloody Mary, an engrossing story about the teen years of Mary Tudor, half sister to Queen Elizabeth and daughter to Henry VIII. A
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The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Jennifer Armstrong
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Current:
8.7 |
In a challenging new novel, Jennifer Armstrong reveals the heart of a young woman in the midst of the U.S. Civil War. Protagonist Mairhe Mehan is an Irish immigrant trying to piece together the fragments of her family's life in war-torn Was
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Mary Mehan Awake
Jennifer Armstrong
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Current:
8.6 |
Imagine seeing colors and brightness again after years of blindness. That's how Jennifer Armstrong's new novel hits the reader--with a flash and a cavalcade of awakening senses. The last time we saw Mary Mehan, in more]
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese Amerian Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
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Current:
8.6 |
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Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Ji-Li Jiang, David Henry Hwang
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Current:
8.6 |
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing Up in the Holocaust
Livia Bitton-Jackson
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Current:
8.5 |
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The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss
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Current:
8.5 |
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100 Women Who Shaped World History (100 Series)
Gail Meyer Rolka
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 22
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Four Perfect Pebbles : A Holocaust Story
Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan
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Current:
8.1 |
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My Bridges of Hope : Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz
Livia Bitton Jackson, Livia Bitton-Jackson
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Current:
8.1 |
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Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Sarajevo
Zlata Filipovic
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Current:
8.1 |
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| 25
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To Be a Slave
Julius Lester(Compiler), Tom Feelings (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.0 |
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| 26
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The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Russell Freedman
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Current:
7.9 |
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| 27
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Abigail Adams : Witness to a Revolution
Natalie S. Bober
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 28
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Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Ji-Li Jiang
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 29
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Ten Queens : Portraits of Women of Power
Milton Meltzer
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Current:
7.7 |
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing Up in the Holocaust
Livia Bitton Jackson, Livia Bitton-Jackson
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Current:
7.7 |
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100 African Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
Chrisanne Beckner, Joanne Clarke
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 32
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Catherine, Called Birdy (Trophy Newbery)
Karen Cushman
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 33
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi, Ruth E. Murray (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 34
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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank
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Current:
7.5 |
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| 35
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The Ramsay Scallop
Frances Temple
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Current:
7.4 |
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Lyddie (A Puffin Novel)
Katherine Paterson
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Current:
7.4 |
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| 37
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An Acquaintance With Darkness (Great Episodes)
Ann Rinaldi
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Current:
7.3 |
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| 38
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The Bomb
Theodore Taylor
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Current:
7.3 |
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Silent Stranger
Amanda Benton, Amy Midgley
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Current:
7.3 |
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| 40
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The Eagle's Shadow
Nora Martin
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Current:
7.3 |
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Time of Fire
Robert Westall
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Current:
7.3 |
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Gulf
Robert Westall
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Current:
7.2 |
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The Beduins' Gazelle
Frances Temple
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Current:
7.0 |
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Honor to the Hills
Eileen Charbonneau
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Current:
6.9 |
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