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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a man who became lost and delirious after an unsuccessful trek to the top of K2, was saved by the locals of a remote Himalayan village, and kept his vow to return one day to build them a new school as a gesture of sincere appreciation and gratitude for what they did for him in his time of need.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith -- but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
11) One-room school
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief history of the one-room schools that existed in the United States from the 1700s to the 1950s.
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH2865
Publisher
King's Crown Press
Pub. Date
1948.
Physical Desc
xi, 233 pages
Language
English
18) Ladybug ladybug
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the normal routines of a rural elementary school are thrown into a panic when the alarm sirens go off, warning them of an imminent nuclear attack. Mrs. Andrews, the sixth grade teacher, leads her group of students through the countryside to a bomb shelter. When they arrive at the shelter, they divide the rations and assume various duties, not knowing if they are in the middle of a nuclear holocaust or if it was...
19) A fine start
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this book Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing her days in the Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book provides descriptive accounts of what the one-room school era was like for teachers, students, and the wider community, encompassing school infrastructure, school events both typical and unusual, teacher-student relationships, and other factors relative to the culture of an educational system that began in pioneer times and ended during the 1950s to the 1970s, primarily in the 1960s"--P. [1].
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