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Award-winning author Kathleen Krull takes an in-depth historical look at immigration in America--with remarkable stories of some of the immigrants who helped build this country. With its rich historical text, fascinating sidebars about many immigrants throughout time, an extensive source list and timeline, as well as captivating photos, American Immigration will become a go-to resource for every child, teacher, and librarian discussing the complex...
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2013.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
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English
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"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little...
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"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
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[2004]
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Do you know the first woman to run for president? The first woman to have a seat on the Stock Exchange? The first woman to own a newspaper? To speak before Congress? They were all Victoria Woodhull; this is her story.
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[2003]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
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From Vivaldi to Guthrie, each of these 20 composers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the history of music. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.
MUSICIANS INCLUDED:
- Vivaldi
- Bach
- Mozart
- Beethoven
- Chopin
- Verdi
- Schumann
- Foster
- Brahms
- Tchaikovsky
- Gilbert & Sullivan
- Satie
- Joplin
- Ives
- Stravinsky
- Boulanger
- Prokofiev
- Gershwin
- Guthrie
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Not all governments have been run by men. Lives of Extraordinary Women turns the spotlight on women who have wielded power, revealing their feats—and flaws—for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers, first ladies, revolutionary leaders. Some are revered. Others are notorious. What were they really like?
In this grand addition to their highly praised...
In this grand addition to their highly praised...
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From Cervantes to Langston Hughes, each of these 19 writers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the world of literature. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.
WRITERS INCLUDED:
- Shikibu
- Cervantes
- Shakespeare
- Austen
- Anderson
- Poe
- Dickens
- Brontë
- Dickinson
- Alcott
- Twain
- Burnett
- Stevenson
- London
- Sandburg
- White
- Hurston
- Hughes
- Singer
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