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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Karen Blumenthal - Flash Point; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off--when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale... |
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Don Brown - Clarion Books
Format: Paperback
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Sibert Honor Medalist · Kirkus Best of 2015 list · School Library Journal Best of 2015 · Publishers Weeklys Best of 2015 list · Horn Book Fanfare Book · BOOKLIST Editors Choice . On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrinas monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees... |
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters,... |
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching... |
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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Susan Kuklin - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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No Choirboy takes readers inside Americas prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices -- raw and uncensored -- they talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin... |
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Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin - Candlewick Press
Format: Book
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A 2015 Stonewall Honor BookA groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent... |
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
Sarah Elizabeth Miller - Schwartz & Wade Books,
Format: Print book
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Here's middle-grade nonfiction that reads like a thriller. With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what... |
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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Doreen Rappaport - Candlewick
Format: Print book
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In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust.Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland. In Belgium,... |
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The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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I don’t want to get out of bed.I’m so stupid.I did so many things wrong.I don’t know what to do.I’m going to be in so much trouble.What am I going to do?I’m completely screwed.In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe... |
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
Steve Sheinkin - Flash Point; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing... |
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Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
Maya van Wagenen - Dutton Books for Young Readers; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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2015 YALSA Award for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times Bestseller A breakout teen author explores... |
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