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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
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A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm, and many, many more, each writing about a time in their youth when they were held back because of their race, gender, or sexual identity--but persisted.
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
Experience hair care flair with these simple, all-natural recipes and fun crafts. Using some of nature's best ingredients, such as jojoba oil, apple cider vinegar, banana, and shea butter, you'll make essential recipes like an Itchy Scalp Mask, a Tame Those Tangles Spray, and a Deep Conditioning Treatment. Craft your very own handmade ribbon headbands and creaseless hair ties to help accessorize. Learn how to package your crafts so you can share with...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year history of Manhattan to map the island's unexpected intersections. Focusing on the evolution of four streets and a square (Wall Street, 42nd Street, West 4th Street, 125th Street, and Union Square) Marc Aronson explores how new ideas and forms of art evolved from social blending"--Amazon.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
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284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Wendelin Van Draanen didn't grow up wanting to be a writer, but thirty books later, she's convinced that writing saved her life. Or, at least, saved her from a life of bitterness and despair. Writing helped her sort out what she thought and felt and wanted. And digging deep into fictional characters helped her understand the real people in her life better as well"--Amazon.com.
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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265 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; 21 cm
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"Today's world can feel like a seriously confusing mess. Headlines and newscasters and posts are coming at us from all sides, each talking about the latest issues and injustices, and everyone with their own opinion on how to solve the problems of the day. It's enough to make anyone's mind melt. Right? Enter: Cramm This Book, your one-stop-shop for the scoop behind the scoop of the day."--Publisher.
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
Description
Here is the fascinating true story of how food was made safer to eat thanks to the stubborn dedication of government chemist Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, whose hard work and determination led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from...
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"In this book, readers will find helpful advice and practical tips that can help set them on the path toward finding, reaching for, and achieving their goals. With examples from Abby's own life, interactive activities to get readers going, and plenty of fun illustrations along the way, this is the perfect guide for anyone--of any age--with big dreams and plenty of determination. It's time to reach for the stars!"--
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"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country. These two brilliant but controversial rocketeers never met, yet together they reshaped spaceflight and warfare. From Stalin?s brutal gulags and Hitler?s concentration...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Tells the story of the feverish race between two ... competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover [dinosaur] fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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165 pages : illustrations, map, photographs (some color) ; 26 cm
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This book features photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration by ten renowned photographers, featuring scenes from regions throughout the United States.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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[xii, 142 pages ; 19 cm]
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"The women's suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women's right to vote. How did the suffragists do it? One hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows that some of their strategies seem oddly familiar. Women's marches at inauguration time? Check. Publicity stunts, optics, and influencers? They practically invented them. Petitions, lobbying, speeches,...
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Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
©2020.
Physical Desc
284 pages : color illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"In this book, reporters from the Born This Way Foundation explore what kindness is and how it helps to promote unity and healing in people and in the world."--
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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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Tanglewood Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
iv, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Description
Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a life-long work for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education....
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
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