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Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow
by James Sturm & Rich Tommaso ; with an introduction by Gerald Early
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Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn't stop him from becoming a world-class athlete. This isa fictionalized account of a real-life sports hero
2007; 89 p.; isbn:0786839015 More Information |
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Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
Russell Freedman
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Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses
2006; 114 p.; isbn:0823420310 More Information |
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Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America
Deborah Hopkinson
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Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it
2006; 120 p.; isbn:0439639018 More Information |
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How we know what we know about our changing climate : scientists and kids explore global warming
by Lynne Cherry and [photographs by] Gary Braasch ; with a foreword by David Sobel
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"This volume describes where scientists look to find evidence of climate change--from changes in bird migration patterns and fruit blossom dates, to obtaining tree rings and mud cores--and especially how students and other citizen-scientists are assisting to monitor climate change, as well as what can be done to mitigate global warming"--Provided ...
2008; 66 p.; isbn:1584691034 More Information |
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Chew on this : everything you don't want to know about fast food
by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
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Examines the fast food industry with facts about its evolution and practices, the effects of fast food consumption on public health, and the international success of fast food
2006; 304 p.; isbn:0618710310 More Information |
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Lugalbanda : the boy who got caught up in a war
Kathy Henderson ; illustrated by Jane Ray
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An ancient Sumerian tale about the youngest and weakest of eight brothers who, caught up in an ill-advised war, uses his wits and courage and eventually becomes king
2006; 72 p.; isbn:0763627828 More Information |
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Tracking trash : flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion
Loree Griffin Burns
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Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents
2007; 56 p.; isbn:0618581316 More Information |
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Little people and a lost world : an anthropological mystery
Linda Goldenberg
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Archaeologists discovered a small humanlike skull on Flores Island during a 2003 dig. Was this an ancestor to us all or just a very small human being?
2007; 112 p.; isbn:0822559838 More Information |
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Let me play : the story of Title IX : the law that changed the future of girls in America
Karen Blumenthal
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Explores the history, struggle, and passage of Title IX, the law that allowed girls the freedom to pursue sports of their choosing, and the effects this law has had on society since its inception
2005; 152 p.; isbn:0689859570 More Information |
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Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr
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Traces the history of baseball in the Negro Leagues and its great heroes, including Monte Irwin, Buck Leonard, and Cool Papa Bell
1994; 184 p.; isbn:0590458094 More Information |
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Six million paper clips : the making of a children's Holocaust memorial
Peter W. Schroeder & Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand
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Describes the efforts of middle school students from the rural Tennessee town of Whitwell to create a Holocaust memorial based on a collection of millions of paper clips intended to represent all of the victims exterminated by the Nazis
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The secret of Priest's Grotto : a Holocaust survival story
Peter Lane Taylor with Christos Nicola
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Two explorers survey caves in the Western Ukraine and relate the story of how an extended Jewish family, fleeing persecution by the Nazis, lived for two years in a large cave, Popowa Yama, and survived the war
2007; 64 p.; isbn:158013260X More Information |
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