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Author
Language
English
Description
"Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day -- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game , but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come...
2) Up the hill
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & company, inc
Pub. Date
1942.
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 22 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A Polish American family lives in a Pennsylvania mining town and keeps the ways of the old country.
4) Polonaise
Author
Publisher
Southern Methodist University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
8) Swamp gas
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
9) Rodzina
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
11) American heaven
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Winslow Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Because of her father's role in the Solidarity movement, Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees from Poland. They settle in Brooklyn among immigrants of every stripe, yet Anna never quite feels that she belongs. But then, the summer she turns twelve, she is sent back to Poland to visit her grandmother, and suddenly she experiences the shock of recognition. In her family's hometown of Kielce, Anna develops...
17) In the beginning
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1975.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The novel, set in the Bronx, New York, concerns a gifted Jewish boy who becomes a Biblical scholar. From shortly after birth, in the 1920's, David Lurie is plagued by illnesses that prove to be emblematic of his growing up. He is bullied by bigger boys, haunted by the "accidents" that he brings upon others, safe only within his pious home. David's inner life, tortured with fears and bad dreams is followed through the Depression, which nearly ruins...
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