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Author
Series
Candy apple books. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Brianna Blake, the most popular girl in middle school, leading the race for student council president, accidental candidate Callie Singer doesn't think she has a chance to win until a humiliating incident caused by Brianna leads Callie to come back fighting.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, who struggled throughout his life for the freedom to practice his religion.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur's born, and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of an Ohio community to secure the freedom of escaped slave John Price, examining various aspects of Price's escape from Kentucky, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the heroic showdown.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 17
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1817 a teenage brother and sister are relieved from the abuses of Newgate Prison in London by the prison reform efforts of Quaker minister Elizabeth Fry.
Author
Publisher
OTTN Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the general whose successful campaign in the South, in what seemed an impossible situation, turned the tide of the American Revolution and led to a Patriot victory"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces Suzy Wright, a Quaker who helped settle the Pennsylvania frontier, defended the rights of Native Americans, and provided legal counsel to her neighbors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Trade paper-over-board edition.
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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