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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Family! It's just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother, abuelita, gato. Well, but, there's something just a little bit different about this family. Maybe it's those clothes they wear... just a little bit fashion backward. And the colors! So vibrant and... lively. Maybe that's what it is. They are just so full of life. Familia-life from a Day of the Dead perspective!"--
64) Australia
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Australia. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later,...
68) India
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to India. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
71) Russia
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Russia. Intended for students in Kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth ammendment to the U.S. Constituion-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The ammendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The...
Author
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through and where the Gitxsan make their home. The Sockeye Mother explores how the animals, water, soil, and seasons are all intertwined."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of Rocky Marciano, the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. The son of poor Italian immigrants, with short arms and stubby legs, Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary heavyweight champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: He never lost a professional fight. His record was a perfect 49-0. Unbeaten is the story of this...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and...
76) Vietnam
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Vietnam. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this practical and compassionate book, mothers will find a guide to managing their own well-being throughout pregnancy and parenthood. Topics include : prioritizing emotional health; setting boundaries and asking for help; making choices about birth, feeding, and parenting; getting good sleep; maintaining a relationship with your partner; and self care. Learn to trust your instincts and actually enjoy the hardest job you will ever love!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day--and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he began to explore the...
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