Author: Great Minds
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ISBN: 9781632559807
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Languages : en
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Author: Phillip Hoose
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312661053
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.

Author: William Zinsser
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062244698
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.

Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747557497
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.

Author: Tony Johnston
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613336734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the man of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters

Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547349742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Through the eyes of a brave and independent young woman, Scott O'Dell tells of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce, a classic tale of cruelty, betrayal, and heroism. This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter. When Sound of Running Feet first sees white settlers on Nez Perce land, she vows to fight them. She'll fight all the people trying to steal her people's land and to force them onto a reservation, including the soldiers with their guns. But if to fight means only to die, never win, is the fight worth it? When will the killing stop? Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Thunder Rolling in the Mountains is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.

Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395776087
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as the time's medical beliefs and practices.

Author: Aubrey Davis
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613991032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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When a beggar gets no help from anybody, even at the synagogue, he offers to use the buttons on his coat to make bone button borscht for everyone in the village, in a retelling of an old folktale reset in a small Jewish village.

Author: Great Minds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683860525
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Languages : en
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ISBN: 9781632559524
Category : English language
Languages : en
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"Wit & Wisdom is a comprehensive English curriculum that builds knowledge of key topics in history, science, and literature through the study of exemplary texts. Draw parents into the conversation as students use these texts to build knowledge of topics such as libraries around the world, animal biology, the power of weather, and timeless classic tales."--Back Cover.