A young Polish girl, her mother, and her grandmother, taken prisoners by the Russians during World War II and shipped to a forced-labor camp in a remote, impoverished Siberian village, somehow manage to stay together and alive through near starvation and harsh arctic winters.
The author, who is called Piri in the narrative, describes her experiences as a Jewish girl in Hungary during World War II. Although Piri's mother attempts to hold the family together and preserve their religious traditions, Piri experiences the slow but ever increasing persecution of the Jewish peo ...
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Lou Gehrig's perseverance is legendary. During fourteen years as a first baseman for the New York Yankees, he played in a record 2,130 consecutive games, earning himself the nickname Iron Horse. Lou loved baseball and considered himself a very lucky man, even though on his thirty-sixth birthday he w ...
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"This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of the girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world . . ".--Publishers Weekly.
Three generations of black women remember their "childtimes" in this lyrical memoir spanning a century of American history. "The intimate details of loving and growing up and the honesty with which they are told will involve all readers, both black and white . . ".--School Library Journal.
Minibiographies of twenty musical celebrities--including Mozart, Woody Guthrie, and Scott Joplin--answers intriguing questions about these famous people, their personal lives, and their music.
A biography of the slave who escaped in 1854, was arrested, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman who witnessed the gathering storm of the American Revolution and saw the battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop near her home. Through her letters to friends and family, Abigail Adams lives in history--and now in this award-winning biography by Natalie Bober.