Kathryn Lasky
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack's inspiring A PICTURE OF FREEDOM is now back in print with a gorgeous new cover!It's 1859 and Clotee, a twelve-year-old slave, has the most wonderful, terrible secret. She knows that if she shares it with the wrong person, she will face unimaginable consequences. What is her secret? While doing her job of fanning her master's son during his daily lessons, Clotee has taught...
122) Memoirs of a bookbat
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls.