World War II History for Teens

2021-06
World War II History for Teens

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  • Author: Benjamin Mack-Jackson
  • Publisher: History for Teens
  • ISBN: 9781648760723
  • Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

Explore WWII from the front lines in this teen history book Help history come alive in a way that's easy for teens to connect with and enjoy. World War II History for Teens dives deep into the major battles, providing a core, compelling framework that allows teens to better understand what really happened during the war. From the conquest of Europe all the way through the end of the Pacific Theater, they'll get an up-close look at the course of the Second World War and learn how it created the world they live in today. World War II History for Teens includes: Key WWII battles--Read through detailed accounts of the most important battles, the moments that decided their outcomes, and how these results shaped the war. Critical thinking--An exciting narrative engages readers while also providing the information they need to draw their own conclusions about the impact of WWII. Closer looks--World War II History for Teens helps readers go even deeper with special features on military technology, how many of the war's key decisions were made, and more. Show teens how exciting history can be with World War II History for Teens.

We Were There, Too!

2001-08-08
We Were There, Too!

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  • Author: Phillip Hoose
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0374382522
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 282

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

2010-05-01
A Great and Terrible Beauty

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  • Author: Libba Bray
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0731814908
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?

Teenage

2021-06-01
Teenage

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  • Author: Jon Savage
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 0571366783
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 562

ONE OF DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGE WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR The acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of 'the teenager' in 1945, from award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage. 'One of Britain's most trusted cultural historians.' THE FACE Ringing with music, from ragtime to swing, Teenage roams London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explores free love and eternal youth; meets flappers and zootsuiters, the Bright Young People and the Lost Generation. The stories come fast and furious, comic, poignant, painfully moving; Savage fuses popular culture, politics and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life. 'Compulsive reading . . . a rich, rewarding book that makes an important contribution to cultural history.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'The definitive history of youth in revolt.' ROLLING STONE '[Savage] can bring a beguiling blend of gravitas, wit, scholarship, and a slyly appreciative eye for the subversive, to any topic he approaches. Teenage provides a panoramic scope for his talents.' INDEPENDENT 'Savage has produced a book that may well change how people think about teenagers.' GUARDIAN (This book is part of a reissue of Jon Savage's seminal works: 1966, Teenage, and England's Dreaming)

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

2021-11-08
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

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  • Author: Kekla Magoon
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • ISBN: 1536214183
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 401

The Panthers' march on the California capitol on May 2, 1967, marked a significant turning point-the moment when the Black Panthers' posture of armed self defense became a matter of national awareness. This new militancy rolled across the American landscape like an earthquake, trembling the foundation of the republic. On the surface, such an earthquake seems quite sudden. It catches people off guard. The ground begins to roll, and it is all too easy to lose footing. Solid things, things designed to be immovable, tilt suddenly, casting all confidence askew. In moments of nervousness and fear, when the ground is shaking and it feels as if the world might come crashing down, sometimes people forget that earthquakes are, in fact, not sudden. Nor do serious political movements arise in one fell swoop. Nothing happens overnight. The major turning points of history are seismic, born of eons of slightly shifting geologic plates. They do not emerge from nowhere. They are born of deep unrest. Book jacket.

Homer's Iliad - Ancient Greece Books for Teens | Children's Ancient History

2017-04-15
Homer's Iliad - Ancient Greece Books for Teens | Children's Ancient History

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  • Author: Baby Professor
  • Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
  • ISBN: 1541918770
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 64

Let’s take a break from facts and enjoy a leisurely stroll in myths and fiction. The Iliad is Homer’s masterpiece. It is a story of love, adventure and a little bit of magic by gods and goddesses. You can pretty much say that it’s a reflection of the Greek culture made immemorial by magnificent writing. Curious? Then read this child-friendly book today!

Every Falling Star

2016-09-13
Every Falling Star

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  • Author: Sungju Lee
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • ISBN: 161312340X
  • Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 299

Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.

A Walk in the Woods

2012-05-15
A Walk in the Woods

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  • Author: Bill Bryson
  • Publisher: Anchor Canada
  • ISBN: 0385674546
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Black Birds in the Sky

2021-10-05
Black Birds in the Sky

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  • Author: Brandy Colbert
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • ISBN: 0063056682
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors—white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more—a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid–twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America—and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward. YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)

2019-09-10
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)

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  • Author: Bryan Stevenson
  • Publisher: Ember
  • ISBN: 0525580069
  • Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

Bryan Stevenson's incredible fight to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality comes to life in this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson. In this very personal work--adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so"--renowned lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom as the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson's story is one of working to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society--the poor, the wrongly convicted, and those whose lives have been marked by discrimination and marginalization. Through this adaptation, young people of today will find themselves called to action and compassion in the pursuit of justice. A portion of the proceeds of this book will go to charity to help in Stevenson's important work to benefit the voiceless and the vulnerable as they attempt to navigate the broken U.S. justice system. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE FEATURED ON CBS THIS MORNING A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR PRAISE FOR JUST MERCY: A TRUE STORY OF THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE: "It's really exciting that young people are getting a version tailored for them." --Salon "A deeply moving collage of true stories. . . . This is required reading." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Compassionate and compelling, Stevenson's narrative is also unforgettable." --Booklist, starred review PRAISE FOR JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION: "Gripping. . . . What hangs in the balance is nothing less than the soul of a great nation." --DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate "Important and compelling." --Pulitzer Prize-winning author TRACY KIDDER "Inspiring and powerful." --#1 New York Times bestselling author JOHN GRISHAM