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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle--the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend Chim took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil War that went straight from the action to news magazines. They brought a human face to war with their iconic shots of a loving...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. Includes reader's guide and author interview.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tansy is used to moving every time her mother starts writing a new book, but in the small Texas town where her grandfather grew up, she is lured into the world of a troubled young man whose death sixty years earlier is shrouded in mystery.
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