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Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes daily life in the cities of England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), from the poor, to the middle classes, to the upper classes, with a focus on the lives of women and children as well as men"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thief known as racism is all around. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into a fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing you racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can discredited. Through a gripping, fast-paced,...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Howard Books hardover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Katie Davis traveled to Uganda for a short mission trip over the Christmas break of her senior year in high school. She found herself so moved by the Ugandan people and their needs that she knew it was her calling to return to care for them. She is now in the process of adopting thirteen children there, and has established the ministry, Amazima, that cares for hundreds more. Here, she shares her story.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores how the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Dr. King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
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