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"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
442) The Fairy Letters
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Part of the ALA YALSA Award-winning series, The Bitter Frost Series or the Frost Series (TM).
A series of letter from the Winter Fey Prince Kian of Feyland to the Summer Queen Breena during the time of their separation. Their love was forbidden as Winter and Summer Fey are at war with each other. Promised to each other at birth during a brief interlude of peace between the warring fey, Kian and Breena have always known they were each other's destinies....
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From the time they established formal ties with Great Britain in 1730, the Cherokees had a rocky relationship with whites. They found grounds for dispute over trade practices, territorial control, and the complicated loyalties among the various Indian tribes and European powers. Over the years, the Cherokees struggled to maintain their ancient traditions as the tribe was assimilated into the white man's culture. Cherokee Voices uses the participants'...
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"All the world appears to be going that way," wrote Daniel Jenks. It was the mid-nineteenth-century craze and scramble for gold that pulled many to California. Countless amateur treasure seekers making the treacherous trek there from all corners of the globe. Jenks was one of these, pulled by the gravity of gold from a peaceful and prosperous Pawtucket Rhode Island life.
Yet the true treasure of Jenks' travels, toil, trials and triumphs turned out...
445) Piel roja: Diario
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¡Descubran la sucesión del Diario del hombre pálido!
Un hombre pálido y cautivo fue admitido por la tribu de los hombres libres. Ahora luchará por ser uno más entre los habitantes de la pradera. ¿Lo conseguirá? Esta obra es la narración de un cuerpo que desea cambiar su mórbida palidez por la piel curtida por el sol que todo lo renueva. He aquí la narración de una veloz cabalgada.
Piel roja es la última entrega de lo que el autor denomina...
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Anthony Barne started his diary in August 1939 as a young, recently married captain in the Royal Dragoons stationed in Palestine. He wrote an entry for every day of the war, often with great difficulty, sometimes when dog-tired or under fire, sometimes when things looked dark and desperate, but more often in sunshine and optimism-"surrounded by good fellows who kept one cheerful and helped one through the sad and difficult times." His diary ends in...
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The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886—1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of US ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany,...
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From the author of Pest-a Washington Post Noteworthy Book-comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author's talents at their best.Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Davies's life is challenging enough. She's short. She's scrawny. She prefers Evernote to SnapChat. She's two years younger than everyone else in her grade. And now her parents are taking the family to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) . . . for a year. To live on a derelict sailboat, bought...
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In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language-what happens when you meet a pun? a double entendre?-are met by translator Daniel Hahn's humor, deftness, and deep appreciation for what sets Eltit's work apart, and his evolving understanding of what this particular...
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A rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of World War I.
Originally published in 1933, Wings of War provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans' step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces in the air.
Brutally honest and vividly written, Rudolf Stark's account of the end-game of the Imperial German Army Air Service provides an intimate,...
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Unicorn diaries volume 1
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Branches/Scholastic Inc
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2020.
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Rainbow Tinseltail and the other students at Sparklegrove School for Unicorns are excited when a brand new unicorn, Sunny Huckleberry, enters the school, but Sunny does not know what his special magical power is, and the thought that he might not have any power at all is making him unhappy; Rainbow (whose power is granting wishes) is eager to help him--even though he does not seem to want her help.
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Owl diaries volume 12
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Scholastic, Inc
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2020.
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Eva Wingdale and her owl classmates are on a camping trip to the other side of the forest, where one of the assignments is to make useful inventions--but Eva and Lucy become totally distracted by the legend of Nellie Wingdale, founder of Treetopolis and her buried treasure, and never finish their project.
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Feiwel & Friends
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2016.
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Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison still finds it hard to believe that she's a real live Princess of Genovia. Not only does she get to live in an actual palace with her newly discovered family and two fabulous poodles (who all love her and think that she's anything but ordinary!) but she also gets her very own pony. Of course, things aren't going exactly like she imagined. Her half-sister Mia is very busy learning how to take over the country...
455) Glow
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Lydia is thrilled to join the working girls in the factory, where they paint luminous watch dials for the soldiers fighting in World War I. In the future, these girls will be known as the tragic Radium Girls: factory workers not only poisoned by the glowing paint, but who also had to fight against men who knew of the paint's deadly effect. One hundred years later, Julie, whose life is on hold after high school, becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious...
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The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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Told primarily in instant messenger conversations, Skype, emails and texts, this is Jaclyn Moriarty's Feeling Sorry for Celia for the modern teen.
Taylor and Isolde used to be best friends - before THAT FIGHT, 18 months ago. It's been radio silence ever since - until Taylor contacts Isolde to sympathise with her breakup: the breakup that she never saw coming; the breakup that destroyed her confidence and ended her dreams of joining the National...
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The first volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day,...
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The second volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years, centering on his time in office.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders...
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Junie B. Jones volume 26
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Random House
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c2006
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Excitable Junie B. Jones manages to find trouble both before and during a trip to Hawaii and records each incident in a photo journal given to her by her teacher.
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