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209402
We are not free by Chee, Traci 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)


Publication Date: 09/01/2020

BTSB #: 209402 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.5 UG Lexile: 860

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction California - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.


424368
We are power : how nonviolent activism changes the world by Hasak-Lowy, Todd 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020)


Publication Date: 05/19/2020

BTSB #: 424368 Available

Dewey: 303.6/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.6 MG+ F&P: Z+

Subjects: Nonviolence - History Protest movements - History Political participation - History Social change - History


Summary: An inspiring look at nonviolent activism, from Gandhi to the high school students of Parkland, showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again.


23.28 *

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836056
We are still here! : Native American truths everyone should know by Sorell, Traci 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)


Publication Date: 04/20/2021

BTSB #: 836056 Available

Dewey: 973.04/NAges: 6-9   
AR: 5.9 MG F&P: V

Subjects: Native Americans - North America - History Native Americans - Social conditions - History Indigenous peoples - United States - Government relations Persistence


Summary: A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here.


567477
We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Levinson, Cynthia 

Paperback(Peachtree, 2015)


Publication Date: 02/15/2012

BTSB #: 567477 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1020 F&P: Y

Subjects: African Americans - Civil rights Civil rights movements - Alabama - History|y20th century


Summary: The inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in Civil Rights history as seen through the eyes of four young people who were right in the middle of it.


12.29 *

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854664
Welcome to America, Champ! [Tales of the world]by Stier, Catherine 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2013)


Publication Date: 03/15/2013

BTSB #: 854664 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
AR: 3.1 LG

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Immigration and emigration - Fiction Remarriage - Fiction Ocean travel - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - England - Fiction Great Britain - History|y1936-1952, George VI - Fiction


Summary: In 1945, when young Thomas, his mother, and his new baby brother leave war-torn England to join his stepfather, an American soldier named Jack, in Chicago, Thomas finds a way to give courage to a fellow traveler on the Queen Mary.


6.50 *

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279702
What elephants know by Dinerstein, Eric 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2016)


Publication Date: 05/17/2016

BTSB #: 279702 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.2 6-8 Lexile: 790

Genres: Animals


Subjects: Elephants - Fiction Jungle animals - Fiction Jungles - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Nepal - History|y20th century - Fiction India - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In the threatened jungle of the Borderlands between Nepal and India during the 1970s, an orphaned boy discovers his fate as a great elephant driver.


6.50 *

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264428
What in the world? : numbers in nature by Day, Nancy Raines 

BTSB Prebound(Beach Lane Books, 2015)


Publication Date: 09/01/2015

BTSB #: 264428 Available

Dewey: 513.5/NAges: 4-8   


Subjects: Counting Natural history Set theory


Summary: A rhyming nonfiction picture book that explores the numerical sets--one tail, two paws, four legs, etc.--that occur throughout the natural world.


6.50 *

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685787
What is LEGO? by O'Connor, Jim 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2020)


Publication Date: 05/05/2020

BTSB #: 685787 Available

Dewey: 338.7/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 900 F&P: T

Subjects: Kirk Christiansen, Ole,|d1891-1958 Kirk Christiansen, Godtfred,|d1920-1995 LEGO koncernen (Denmark) - History LEGO toys - History Inventors Inventions Inventors Inventions


Summary: The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name--which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well"--encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. This book explores how small plastic bricks that snap together became a cultural phenomenon.


4.91 *

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685788
What is LEGO? [What Was?]by O'Connor, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)


Publication Date: 05/05/2020

BTSB #: 685788 Available

Dewey: 338.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG Lexile: 900 F&P: T

Subjects: Kirk Christiansen, Ole,|d1891-1958 Kirk Christiansen, Godtfred,|d1920-1995 LEGO koncernen (Denmark) - History LEGO toys - History Inventors Inventions Inventors Inventions


Summary: The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name--which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well"--encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. This book explores how small plastic bricks that snap together became a cultural phenomenon.


14.99 *

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320595
What is NASA? [What Was?]by Fabiny, Sarah 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2019)


Publication Date: 05/07/2019

BTSB #: 320595 Available

Dewey: 629.45/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.6 MG RC: 7.6 3-5 Lexile: 970 F&P: U

Subjects: United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronautics - United States - History Space race - History Space flight - History Outer space - Exploration


Summary: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration began in 1958. Describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, and the many missions and discoveries that have taken place since then.


4.91 *

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320599
What is NASA? [What Was?]by Fabiny, Sarah 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)


Publication Date: 05/07/2019

BTSB #: 320599 Available

Dewey: 629.45/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.6 MG RC: 7.6 3-5 Lexile: 970 F&P: U

Subjects: United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronautics - United States - History Space race - History Space flight - History Outer space - Exploration


Summary: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration began in 1958. Describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, and the many missions and discoveries that have taken place since then.


14.99 *

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831129
What is the civil rights movement? [What Was?]by Smith, Sherri L. 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2020)


Publication Date: 12/29/2020

BTSB #: 831129 Temp OS

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG Lexile: 840

Subjects: Civil rights movements - United States - History African Americans - Civil rights - History Race relations


Summary: Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change.


4.91 *

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831138
What is the civil rights movement? [What Was?]by Smith, Sherri L. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)


Publication Date: 12/29/2020

BTSB #: 831138 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG Lexile: 840

Subjects: Civil rights movements - United States - History African Americans - Civil rights - History Race relations


Summary: Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change.


14.99 *

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694983
What is the Panama Canal? [What Was?]by Pascal, Janet B. 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2017)


Publication Date: 07/17/2014

BTSB #: 694983 Available

Dewey: 972.87/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.9 MG RC: 5.6 3-5 F&P: X

Subjects: Canals - Panama - Design and construction - History Panama Canal (Panama) - History Canal Zone - History


Summary: Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. In a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world's most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!


4.91 *

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440341
What is the Stanley Cup? [What Was?]by Herman, Gail 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2019)


Publication Date: 03/12/2019

BTSB #: 440341 Available

Dewey: 796.962/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 780 F&P: V

Subjects: Stanley Cup (Hockey) - History National Hockey League - History Hockey - History


Summary: All about the Stanley Cup Finals--the National Hockey League's championship games.


4.91 *

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440343
What is the Stanley Cup? [What Was?]by Herman, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)


Publication Date: 03/12/2019

BTSB #: 440343 Available

Dewey: 796.962/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 780 F&P: V

Subjects: Stanley Cup (Hockey) - History National Hockey League - History Hockey - History


Summary: All about the Stanley Cup Finals--the National Hockey League's championship games.


15.89 *

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511072
What is the story of the mummy? [What Is The Story Of?]by Keenan, Sheila 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)


Publication Date: 08/17/2021

BTSB #: 511072 Available

Dewey: 791.43/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.8 MG Lexile: 1010 F&P: W

Subjects: Mummy films - History and criticism Motion picture industry - Production and direction Mummies Horror films - History and criticism


Summary: Explains the history of the movie and its remakes, the legendary curse of King Tut's mummy, and what lies ahead for this monstrous creature.


15.51 *

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972874
What the eagle sees : indigenous stories of rebellion and renewal by Yellowhorn, Eldon 

Paperback(Annick Press, 2019)


Publication Date: 11/12/2019

BTSB #: 972874 Temp OS

Dewey: 970.004/NAges: 11-17   
AR: 7.6 UG

Subjects: Native Americans - North America Race relations Anecdotes


Summary: What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive.


12.26 *

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842992
What the night sings : a novel by Stamper, Vesper 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2018)


Publication Date: 02/20/2018

BTSB #: 842992 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.9 UG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Germany - History|y1945-1955 - Fiction


Summary: Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.


273334
What was Ellis Island? [What Was?]by Demuth, Patricia 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2014)


Publication Date: 03/13/2014

BTSB #: 273334 Available

Dewey: 304.8/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: W

Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) - History United States - Immigration and emigration - History


Summary: Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.


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