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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This real-life thriller recounts the most daring American P.O.W. rescue mission of WWII by U.S. Army Rangers who, aided by the "Angels of the Underground," the Sixth Ranger Battalion and courageous Filipino guerrilla soldiers, saved their fellow servicemen from certain death.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the early life of Carter Godwin Woodson, his education, and his efforts to preserve African American history, starting with the establishment of Negro History Week in 1926.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, one moment changes a person's life. And that person goes on to change other lives. That's what happened to Frances Perkins. After she witnessed the 1911 catastrophic fire at the Triangle Waist Company, in which one hundred and forty-six people died, she devoted her life to improving conditions for workers. Frances became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet. As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped...
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