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57 matches found, viewing page 3 of 3, goto page < 1 2 3 > Search Again| Rachel Carson: Voice for the Earth Wadsworth, Ginger 1992 128 p. Ages: 9-14 ISBN: 0822549077 | 
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- Describes the life of the biologist and writer who helped initiate the environmental movement.
| Rosa Parks Summer, L. S. 2000 39 p. Ages: 6-9 ISBN: 1567666221 |
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- Rosa's famous action on the bus began with her lesser-known work years before.
| Rosa Parks: My Story Parks, Rosa 1994 192 p. Ages: 9-14 ISBN: 0141301201 |
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- Rosa Parks story, in her own words.
| Sacagawea: 1788-1812 Wallner, Rosemary 2003 32 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 073681213X |
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- Presents what is known of the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni who was an interpreter on the Lewis and Clark Expedition: her childhood in a Shoshoni village, capture by Hidatsas, travels, and reunion with her brother. Includes sidebars, activities, a chronology, glossary, and map. Text sometimes awkwardly includes phrases such as: 'Such a sight would surely have brought tears..." "Sacagawea certainly had fear..." 'But Sacagawea surely hoped she would someday..." But with an academic consultant listed, what is stated must (surely!) have historical accuracy…
| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Coerr, Eleanor 1977 64 p. Ages: 6-12 ISBN: 0698118022 |
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- Sick with the "bomb disease," Japanese Sadako races to fold 1,000 paper cranes for healing.
| Seven Brave Women Hearne, Betsy 1997 22 p. Ages: 5-9 ISBN: 0688145027 |
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- Noting that "in the old days, history books marked time by the wars that men fought," Hearne tells stories of seven women in her family who "did great things" without fighting in the eight wars that framed their lives. For instance, the first chapter begins, "My great-great-great-grandmother did great things. Elizabeth lived during the Revolutionary War, but she did not fight in it... .Elizabeth was a Mennonite." The brief text goes on to describe her journey, in a wooden sailboat, from Switzerland to America. The oil paintings are full of color, light, and movement. Strong women, pacifism, and genealogy are woven together to make an attractive book that may inspire its readers to delve into their own family histories. Read this book along with Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson to add a similarly rich African-American ancestry traced back through the women.
Read this book along with Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson to add a similarly rich African-American ancestry traced back through the women.
| Show Way Woodson,Jacqueline 2005 40 p. Ages: 6-10 ISBN:0399237496 |
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- Jacqueline, an African-American writer, goes back 6 generations to tell about her female ancestors, beginning with Soonie's great-grandma, who at age seven, " was sold from the Virginia land to a plantation in South Carolina without her ma or pa but with some muslin her ma had given her." Sewing, "show way" quilts, creativity, education and the arts are part of the rich heritage traced down through the generations to today. The illustrations, with quilt patterns and detailed historical information, complement the text and create a real treasure. Read this book along with Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne.
| The Story of Ruby Bridges Coles, Robert 1995 32 p. Ages: 4-10 ISBN: 0590439685 |
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- Six-year-old Ruby Bridges' year as the much-opposed, only African-American child attending her Louisiana school in 1960.
| Ted Studebaker Moore, Joy Ages: 8-12 |
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- Ted goes to work in Vietnam during the war without taking sides. What happens?
| Through My Eyes Bridges, Ruby 1999 61 p. Ages: 9-Adult ISBN: 0590189239 |
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- Ruby's own recollections of her life, specifically events surrounding her 1960 first-grade year at the beginning of school integration. Also includes other people's reflections, photographs, newspaper coverage, etc.
| Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice Greene, Carol 1991 47 p. Ages: 5-7 |
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- Examines the life of the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
| Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story of Sojourner Truth Ferris, Jeri 1988 64 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 0876145055 |
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- Traces the life of the African-American woman orator who spoke out against slavery in the north.
| Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Lewis, John and Michael D'Orso 1999 496 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0156007088 |
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- John Lewis is an American hero, a modest man from the most humble of beginnings who left a rural Alabama cotton farm 40 years ago and strode into the forefront of the civil rights movement. One of the young people who brought the teachings of Ghandi and King to the lunch counters of Nashville in 1960, Lewis suffered taunts and threats, beatings and arrests. He spoke at the historic 1963 March on Washington and became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The nation, tuned to the nightly news, watched in horror as state troopers clubbed him viciously, fracturing his skull as he led a march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Today, he's the only member of Congress who can be proud of having been carried off to jail more than 40 times. With the help of a collaborator, journalist Michael D'Orso, Lewis' Walking with the Wind is a deeply moving personal memoir that skillfully balances the intimate and touching recollections of the deeply thoughtful Lewis with the intense national drama that was the civil rights movement.
| Women of Peace: Nobel Peace Prize Winners Schraff, Anne 1994 112 p. Ages: 10-14 ISBN: 0894904930 |
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- Well-written summaries of the lives of Jane Addams, Mother Teresa, Czech novelist Baroness von Suttner, American economist Emily Green Balch, Swedish diplomat Alva Myrdal, Mayan land reformer Rigoberta Menchu, and activists Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams (Ireland) and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma).
| Writing Peace: The Unheard Voices of Great War Mennonite Objectors Mock, Melanie Springer 2003 346 p. Ages: 17-Adult ISBN: 1931038090 |
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- Mock gives riveting historical introduction into the experiences of Anabaptists and others during the time of WWI. She examines poetry, diaries, and other literature to explore their responses to the horrific events. Includes actual diaries of Gustav Gaeddert, John Neufeld, Jacob Meyer, and Ura Hostetler. Fascinating reading for older teenagers as they face their own decisions in times filled with wars and the threat of war.
| You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer: A Very Improper Story Shana Corey 2000 40 p. Ages: 5-8 ISBN: 0439078199 |
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- Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way 19th century society tells her a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women to save them from the discomfort of their heavy, tight dresses.
| Young, Black and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry McKissack, Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack 1998 152 p. Ages: 12-Adult |
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- Lorraine grew up listening to her parents making clear that she was "equal;" listening to the NAACP lawyers in her living room planning legal strategies; and witnessing visits from W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Jesse Owens, and Duke Ellington. Lorraine learned to express herself and she wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun which later made dramatic history.
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