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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Doreen Rappaport, Brian Collier (Illustrator)
This definitive picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose dream changed America--and the world--forever.
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, JR.
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Freedom River
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Doreen Rappaport
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
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Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship
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Doreen Rappaport, Lyndall Callan, Toby Sherry (Editor)
Margaret experiences the excitement of watching the 1946 championship game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League as it goes into extra innings.
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No More: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
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Doreen Rappaport, Shane W Evans (Illustrator)
This exploration of slavery in America is composed of first-person accounts, spirituals, and short fictions based on the lives of real people. Illustrated with oil paintings.
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Trouble at the Mines
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Doreen Rappaport, Joan Sandin (Illustrator)
History comes to life in this moving story of one of the first miners' strikes in America, told through the lives of two ten-year-old girls whose friendship is tested by their fathers' differing views on the strike.
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American Women: Their Lives in Their Words: A Documentary History
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Doreen Rappaport (Editor)
A variety of materials such as poetry, speeches, letters, legal documents, and diaries are used to explore the history of women in the United States. Illustrated with drawings and photographs.
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John's Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon
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Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
An introduction to John Lennon for children as yet unacquainted with the musical icon presents a rhythmic narrative, a selection of Lennon's own song lyrics, author's and illustrator's notes, a timeline, a bibliography, a discography, and extremely colorful and child-friendly watercolor and collage illustrations. Influences on Lennon's life and ...
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The Lizzie Borden Trial
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Doreen Rappaport
A step-by-step reconstruction of the Lizzie Borden trial in which readers are asked to weigh the evidence and decide if Lizzie really did kill her father and stepmother in 1892.
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Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation
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Doreen Rappaport, Shane W Evans (Illustrator)
Spirituals, work songs, blues lyrics, poems, and a compelling narrative recount the experience of black Americans in the South from the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 through the dawn of the Civil Rights era in 1954. Full color.
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The Boston Coffee Party
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Doreen Rappaport, Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)
A group of angry women storm the warehouse of a greedy merchant during the Revolutionary War and force him to turn over the coffee he's been hoarding. This story is based on a true incident.
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American Women: Their Lives in Their Words
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A variety of materials such as poetry, speeches, letters, legal documents, and diaries are used to explore the history of women in the United States. Illustrated with drawings and photographs.
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The Journey of Meng
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Doreen Rappaport, Yang Ming-Yi (Illustrator)
A Chinese tale in which a woman goes in search of her husband who has been forced to be a slave for a cruel king.
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Victory or Death!: Stories of the American Revolution
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Doreen Rappaport, Greg Call (Illustrator), Joan C Verniero (Illustrator)
True stories about important events and people from the American Revolutionary War including such less well-known heroes as 16-year-old Sybil Ludington and James Armistead--a slave who spied for Lafayette and the Americans.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
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Doreen Rappaport
Readers are presented with the facts of this 1920 case and asked to decide for themselves whether Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettie were guilty of murdering two security guards during a robbery or if they were the victims of prejudice against Italian immigrants.
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The School Is Not White!: A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement
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Doreen Rappaport, Curtis James (Illustrator)
Gorgeously illustrated and told, this is the true story of what occurred in a small Mississippi town in the 1960s when a family of sharecroppers wanted their eight children to have an equal opportunity for a good education and sent them to the "all-white" schools.
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The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa
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Doreen Rappaport
This biography of the writer, lecturer, and activist Gertrude Bonnin--also known as Zitkala-Sa--is based on the Native American reformer's own writings. Illustrated with b&w photographs.
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The New King
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Doreen Rappaport, E B Lewis (Illustrator)
A young African prince learns to accept his father's death--and his new role among his people.
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Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure
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Profiles of six adventurous women including Annie Taylor, who, at 63, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel; Bessie Coleman, who was the world's first licensed African American pilot; and Thecla Mitchell, who, despite a physical handicap, participated in the grueling New York City Marathon.
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The Alger Hiss Trial
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It is 1948, and the Cold War is going on between the United States and Russia, causing a sentiment of anti-communism across the country. A government official named Alger Hiss is accused of giving top-secret documents to the Russians. After listening to all the evidence, it is up to you to decide his verdict. This title is part of the "Be the ...
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The Secret Seder
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Doreen Rappaport, Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)
Based on the lives of resistance fighters and Jews hiding in France during World War II, this remarkable story of courage and faith tells of a Jewish family that eludes Nazi soldiers to gather with other Jews to celebrate the Seder in secret.
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Flight of the Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa
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This biography of the writer, lecturer, and activist Gertrude Bonnin--also known as Zitkala-Sa--is based on the Native American reformer's own writings. Illustrated with b&w photographs.
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We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians
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Doreen Rappaport, Cornelius Van Wright (Illustrator), Ying-Hwa Hu (Illustrator)
From the doctor who rode through a snowstorm to tend a sick child, to the American marine who baffled the Japanese with a code based on the Navajo language, here are the lives of 16 distinguished American Indians. Fresh and exciting, Rappaport provides young readers with a first look at the great history and cultures of Native Americans. Full ...
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Freedom Ship
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Doreen Rappaport, Curtis James (Illustrator)
During the Civil War, young Samuel and his father can see Union ships in the Atlantic Ocean as they work as slaves on a Confederate steam ship out of Charleston. On May 13, 1862, Samuel and his family risk everything to reach a Union ship and escape.
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Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom
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Doreen Rappaport, Charles Lilly (Illustrator)
Five true stories of slaves who managed to escape from their masters. Although the book contains some fictionalization, the stories are based on primary sources as well as on accounts written by the actual escapees. Illustrated with b&w drawings
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