Search Results | Marathon County Public Library

"After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American...

4582) Rosa Parks and her protest for civil rights

Author

Steele, Philip

Series

Dates with history

Pub. Date

2002.

Physical Desc

pages ; cm.

Language

English

Description

A simple introduction to the life of Rosa Parks and her role in the efforts to gain equal rights for African Americans.

4583) Mia Mayhem rides the waves

Author

West, Kara

Series

Mia Mayhem volume 11

Pub. Date

2021.

Physical Desc

122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

Mia Mayhem learns some important things about herself and her abilities during a family vacation to the beach.

4584) Fairies hate ponies

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

117 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

"A swarm of insects threatens the Montgomery Orchard and Xander's fruitful summer job. Luckily, the so-called bugs aren't actually bugs. Unluckily, they're unicorn-hating fairies from Pegasia! If Xander and his unicorns can't rid the orchard of these pests, their secret will be blown like a stomach-load of multi-colored chunks"--Back cover.

4585) The American Civil War: an introspective look at the War Between the States

Pub. Date

[2009]

Physical Desc

14 videodiscs (28 hr., 17 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

American girl. Girl named

"Experience for yourself the historical and personal impact of the Civil War in a way that only HISTORY can present it, in this moving megaset filled with over 25 hours of documentaries. A multifacted look at "The War Between the States," this definitive collection brings the most legendary Civil War battles, and the soldiers and leaders who fought them, vividly to life. From Gettysburg and Antietam to Shiloh, and led by the likes of Sherman, McClellan,...

4586) A girl named Rosa: the true story of Rosa Parks

Author

Patrick, Denise Lewis

Series

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?

4587) The dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation

Author

Hansen, Drew W

Pub. Date

2003.

Physical Desc

393 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

4588) Revenge of the one-trick pony

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

116 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

Athletes who made a difference

Everybody thinks that the "ponies" in Xander's magic show are made to look the way they do (like zombie ponies) with tricks and make-up, but the eccentric billionaire Russ DeVon knows what they are (the unicorn part, at least) because when Russ was nine he discovered Pegasia, and was kicked out for trying to steal a baby unicorn--and now he will stop at nothing to get back there.

4589) Colin Kaepernick

Author

Hoena, B. A

Series

Pub. Date

[2020]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

"This graphic biography traces Colin Kaepernick's road from young sports standout to athlete and activist. As Kaepernick protested violence against African Americans, he lost his career in football but gained a voice heard worldwide" --

4590) Tomlinson Hill: the remarkable story of two families who share the Tomlinson name--one white, one black

Author

Tomlinson, Chris

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

xii, 430 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description

"Foreign correspondent Chris Tomlinson returns to Texas to discover the truth about his family's slave owning history, [telling] the story of two families, one black and one white, who trace their ancestry to the same Central Texas slave plantation. Tomlinson discovers that his counterpart in the African American family is LaDainian Tomlinson, one of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League"--

4591) The search for Stalor

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

118 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

Four zombie, rainbow-barfing unicorns were expelled from Pegasia for attempted unicorn cannibalism, but only three of them landed on the mountain where fifth-grader Xander lives with his aunt--but now the unicorns are determined to find their missing friend, Stalor, and when Xander follows them through the portal he finds himself in Shushyerbum, inhabited by Mears with a taste for human flesh, and he not only needs to rescue his friends, but keep...

4592) Return to Pegasia

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

118 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

Xander Stone has been hiding his three friends the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns in plain sight as part of a magic show, but now a regular unicorn has found her way through a portal; problem is the virus that turned them into zombie-like creatures has apparently given his three friends a craving for unicorn flesh--so when they all use to the portal to return to Pegasia Xander follows to try and restrain his friends (especially Ronk), and solve the mystery...

4593) Mighty justice: the untold story of civil rights trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Author

Asim, Jabari

Pub. Date

2020.

Physical Desc

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

A biography of Dovey Johnson Roundtree--one of the first black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army, and an attorney in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, D.C.

4594) The untold story of Sarah Keys Evans: civil rights soldier

Author

Tyner, Artika R

Series

First but forgotten

Pub. Date

[2023]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel

"Most people have heard about Rosa Parks's brave actions that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. But there were other Black women who challenged segregation in transportation. Three years earlier, Sarah Keys Evans-a veteran-refused to give up her seat on a bus traveling through the South. With key biographical information and related historical events, this Capstone Captivate book will uncover Evans's story and show how it connects to Parks's...

4595) Martin Luther King Jr

Author

Series

Little people, big dreams
Little people big dreams

Pub. Date

2020.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

From the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the inspiring minister and civil rights activist.

4596) We are the NASA scientists

Author

Tucker, Zoë

Series

Friends change the world

Pub. Date

2021.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description