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1) Mountain boy
Author
Publisher
Raintree Publishers
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how fourteen-year-old Thomas Zachary helped a group of escaped Union prisoners elude the Confederate soldiers in the mountains of North Carolina and make it to freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the state and federal prison systems, what prison life is like in various types of institutions, prison violence, women in prison, and alternatives to prison.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River and it could have been prevented.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Enterprises
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the large Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia, known as Camp Sumter or Andersonville, and the harsh conditions that killed many prisoners there during the Civil War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
46 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the world's most famous towers as well as a few dungeons and prisons, and relates historical tales associated with several of the structures.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes what it was like to be an American prisoner of war held by the Germans or Japanese during World War II, discussing the physical conditions, emotional turmoil, and difficult transition to freedom after harsh imprisonment.
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