Herman J. Viola
Author
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a shockingly honest narrative, a former prisoner-of-war tells how her family, along with ten thousand other Dutch residents living in the Dutch East Indies were shipped off to internment camps where food rationing, terrible sanitary conditions, and an uncertain future were the norms for more than three years.
9) Sitting Bull
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Native American who engineered the defeat of Custer and his troops at Little Big Horn and toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery in the warrior tradition. They follow his mischievous antics as a young Maasai cattle herder, coming-of-age initiation, boarding school escapades, soccer success, and journey to America for college.
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