Lou Gehrig's perseverance is legendary. During fourteen years as a first baseman for the New York Yankees, he played in a record 2,130 consecutive games, earning himself the nickname Iron Horse. Lou loved baseball and considered himself a very lucky man, even though on his thirty-sixth birthday he w ...
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"This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of the girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world . . ".--Publishers Weekly.
Three generations of black women remember their "childtimes" in this lyrical memoir spanning a century of American history. "The intimate details of loving and growing up and the honesty with which they are told will involve all readers, both black and white . . ".--School Library Journal.
Distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer encouragement to aspiring artists.
A biography of the slave who escaped in 1854, was arrested, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Minibiographies of twenty musical celebrities--including Mozart, Woody Guthrie, and Scott Joplin--answers intriguing questions about these famous people, their personal lives, and their music.
David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century.
The author, who is called Piri in the narrative, describes her experiences as a Jewish girl in Hungary during World War II. Although Piri's mother attempts to hold the family together and preserve their religious traditions, Piri experiences the slow but ever increasing persecution of the Jewish peo ...
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A young Polish girl, her mother, and her grandmother, taken prisoners by the Russians during World War II and shipped to a forced-labor camp in a remote, impoverished Siberian village, somehow manage to stay together and alive through near starvation and harsh arctic winters.