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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

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Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured... [More...]

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Coerr, Eleanor

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Based on a true story, young Sadako faces the battle of her life when she is diagnosed with "atomic bomb disease" (leukemia). She turns to her native Japanese beliefs and makes one thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her wish to be well.

Balto and the Great Race
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

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Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog—until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish—and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by... [More...]

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Coerr, Eleanor

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After several dizzy spells send Hiroshima-born Sadako to the doctor, the budding school track star finds out she has leukemia—known as the "atom bomb disease." But she faces life with spirit and bravery. And a legend says that if she folds 1,000 paper... [More...]

A Young People's History of the United States (Enhanced Omnibus Edition)
Zinn, Howard

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Now revised and updated, this classic telling of American history is a companion volume to "The People Speak," Zinn's forthcoming televised series, adapted from "A People's History of the United States." 50 illustrations & photos.

Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America
Carnes, Jim

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Fourteen case studies — enhanced through the use of original documents, historical photos, newly commissioned paintings, and dramatic narrative — bring readers a first-hand account of the history and psychology of intolerance.

Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
Levine, Ellen

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In this inspiring collection of true stories, 30 African Americans who were children or teens in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South. "Thrilling . . . Nothing short of wonderful".—"The New York... [More...]

The Cage
Sender, Ruth Minsky

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From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will.

Mummies and Pyramids: A Nonfiction Companion to Mummies in the Morning
Osborne, Will

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How were pyramids built? Why did people make mummies? What magic charms were buried with mummies? Who discovered King Tut's tomb? Unwrap the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide #3: Mummies and Pyramids, Jack and... [More...]

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
Bitton-Jackson, Livia

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A graphic narrative describes what happens to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. Includes a brief chronology of the Holocaust.

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