This biography tells the story of Irene Gut Opdyke. When she was a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland, Opdyke risked her life by sheltering 12 Jews in the basement of her employer's home--he was a German officer. She moved to the US after World War II.
Elli Friedmann was 13 when the Nazis invaded the town in Hungary where she lived. At first Elli and her mother were forced to relocate to a crowded ghetto, but eventually they were transported to Auschwitz. Because of her blond hair, Elli was spared from death and selected as a worker. In this memoir, she describes life in the infamous ...
The author reflects on her role in the 1957 integration of Little Rock Central High School. A 16-year-old girl at the time, the author was among the first nine black students to attend that school--a situation that brought out the best, and the worst, in her neighbors and fellow students. The integration of Central High School was, and continues ...
This heart-rending biography tells of Sadako Sasaki, who was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her hometown of Hiroshima. Ten years later, Sadako is dying of leukemia as a result of the bomb, and a friend tells her that if a sick person can fold 1,000 paper cranes, the gods will make them well again. A poignant portrait that shows ...
A biography of French pilot Louis Bleriot who, in 1909, became the first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel. This picture book tells of the very first time Bleriot saw an airship, his quest to build his own flying machine, his many disastrous attempts to learn how to fly a plane, and finally of his triumphant flight into history. ...
On March 1, 1893, Princess Ka'iulani, 17, stepped onto the pier at New York City, realizing she stood at a crossroads in history. This biography tells the fascinating story of Princess Ka'iulani's life and courageous fight for Hawaiian independence. Using newly translated journals and letters, Sharon Linnea introduces young readers to the most ...
This gorgeous, sophisticated picture book focuses on Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks's bold refusal to surrender her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. A detailed portrait of Rosa's day on December 1, 1955, is presented, chronicling her long hours spent as a seamstress before leaving work early on account of her ill mother. ...
Reflections of Hannah Goslar, a Holocaust survivor who was a childhood friend of Anne Frank. This memoir covers the girls' close friendship before Anne and her family went into hiding, and their last tearful reunion at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where Anne died at the age of 15. Illustrated with b&w photographs.
Zlata Filipovic, a Croatian, started writing in her diary in October, 1991, just before her 11th birthday. Her entries about the normal concerns of a girl her age suddenly change as the bombs start to fall on Sarajevo, and the diary becomes a chronicle of the horror and destruction around her. Continuing to write in her diary until she is 13, ...
Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to lead them on the same secret, dangerous journey.
A memoir by Ji-li Jiang who was a 12-year-old girl living in China when Chairman Mao launched the 1966 Cultural Revolution. Ji-li was an excellent student with the promise of a great future, but with the advent of the Cultural Revolution, intelligence was seen as a crime and her family's wealthy background meant that they were persecuted by their ...
A biography of Amos Fortune--born an African prince named At-mun--who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the United States. Eventually able to buy his own freedom, Fortune dedicated the rest of his life to helping other slaves buy theirs. Winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal.
Living in Poland, 12-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is hardly aware that he's Jewish. But when Hitler comes to power, Jack is torn from his family as they are herded to a concentration camp, and he is forced to work for the Nazis. Each day is a struggle to survive, and life in the camps is brutal as Hitler's guards are skilled at crushing a prisoner's ...
A woman shares her childhood memories of living in Nazi Germany. In this true story, the author relates how the life of her family changed when Hitler came into power and they were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps. Illustrated with b&w photographs.
Authentic but seldom recounted stories are included in this heartwarming biography of America's 16th president. Color illustrations catch the spirit of Lincoln and his era.
Hautzig tells how she was wrenched from her life in a wealthy Jewish family in Poland and deported to a Siberian village. In 1941, when she was ten, she, her mother, and grandmother were captured by the Russians and shipped by cattle-car to a forced-labor camp. There, the three of them manage to stay together and for four years survive the ...
Kids can learn all about Sacagawea, who was only 16 when she made the famous journey across 4,500 miles of unexplored territory with Lewis and Clark as their guide. Illustrations.
The true story of the 6-year-old girl who single-handedly integrated an all-white New Orleans public school in 1960. Each day Ruby had to walk through throngs of screaming protestors to enter a classroom that was devoid of other students because they had been kept home by their angry parents. An afterward explains how, after many months, the ...
A biography of Scott O'Grady, the U.S. Air Force captain who was shot down over Bosnia and managed to live through the crash that caused his plane to explode and to survive on his own in enemy territory.
Deborah Sampson wanted to travel and have adventures, but since she had no money, the best way to do that was to join the army. This is the exciting true story of a woman who became a soldier during the American Revolutionary War, by dressing and acting like a man.
The author of such books as EARTHQUAKE TERROR, CAT BURGLAR ON THE PROWL and DANGER AT THE FAIR tells of how she contracted polio at the age of 12. Told through fictionalized dialogue, this book is set in 1949.
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