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Leon's story
I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colored" or "nigger." Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for black children, a…
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- 0439283191
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- 107 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 TIL
Dear Dr. Bell..... your friend, Helen Keller
Helen Keller was only six years old when she met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The meeting was an eventful one,marking the beginning of a lifelong friendship. It was Bell who guided Helen's parents to a teacher and helped Helen adjust to an extremely public life. "You can do anything you think you can," wrote Dr. Bell to Helen. "Remember that many will be brave in yo…
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- 0590486780
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- 95 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 KEL
Sojourner Truth
This unique biography of Sojourner Truth tells the exciting story of her life using personal recollections, as well as letters and articles written by those who knew her. "I am pleading for the mothers, Who gaze in wild despair, Upon the hated auction-block, And see their children there." With these words Sojourner Truth sang about the pain that women slaves felt when their children were …
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- 0439263239
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- 128 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- In Their Own Words
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- 920 TRU
Diving with Dolphins
As with all WILD LIVES titles, the book will take the form of a diary and contain an exciting combination of action, humour and lots of animal facts. DIVING WITH DOLPHINS is set in Shark Bay, Western Australia and will cover four months in the life of a young bottlenose dolphin. Topics covered will include dolphin communication skills and the relationship between humans and dolphins. Animals ca…
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- 043968949X
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- 128 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Wild Lives
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- 920 ARN
Sew what, Betsy Ross?
A biography of Betsy Ross as a girl, before she ran her own upholstery shop and made American flags.
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- 0439439256
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- 57 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Before I Made History
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- 923 ROS
Thomas Edison : the wizard inventor
More than any other individual, Edison was responsible for introducing the modern age of electricity. But as well as pioneering the first commercial electric light and power system, he also invented the phonograph, the microphone, and an early movie camera. His gripping story is one of determination and triumph.
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- 0199101957
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- 31 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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- What's Their Story?
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- 926 EDI
Louis Braille
The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
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- 0850786266
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- 32 pages : illustration : 23 cm
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- 920 BRA
Hana's suitcase : a true story
From the foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu: "How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana's story the terrible history of what happened and that it continues to urge them to heed the warnings of history."
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- 0439851238
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- 111 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 920 LEV
Orphan train rider : one boy's true story
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan tra…
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- 0590115278
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- 80 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 920 WAR
A picture book of Sacagawea
A concise look at the legendary Shoshone woman who led explorers Lewis and Clark on their route from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean. Born in the Rocky Mountains, Sacagawea was taken captive and held hundreds of miles away from home for years. When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark came through her new village, Sacagawea was offered as a guide since the explorers were heading toward Shosho…
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- 0439260965
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- 32 pages : illustration : 20 cm
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- 920 SAC
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