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302) My name is Selma: the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. She lived with her parents, two older brothers, and a younger sister. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had been of no consequence. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. Then, in an act of defiance, she joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. For two years 'Marga'...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In the late 1800s, newsboys-or "newsies"-were a critical part of the newspaper industry. They bought stacks of papers from newspaper publishers and then sold them on city streets for a small profit. But in 1898, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World raised the cost of 100 papers by 10 cents. The price increase cut into the newsboys' profits, and by the summer of 1899 their frustration boiled over. They banded...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"On September 16, 1965, Filipino and Mexican American migrant workers joined together to strike against the grape growers in Delano, California. The farmers left the fields to demand better wages and benefits. Led by Larry Itliong, Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta, the two groups created a union called the United Farm Workers of America. For five years, UFW brought attention to their cause through boycotts, a 300-mile march, and other nonviolent efforts...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
No hace mucho, nadie podia imaginarse que una latina de veintiocho anos se postulase para el Congreso en representacion de Queens y el Bronx: era necesario enfrentarse a la maquinaria politica de la ciudad, casi exclusivamente blanca y exclusivamente masculina. Pero desde que Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aparecio en la escena con toda su gloria, tweets y tendencia a romper todos los esquemas, el rostro de la politica del siglo XXI ha cambiado. Hoy, Ocasio-Cortez...
309) Defiance
Author
Series
Resistance trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Think you know all there is to know about paranormal mysteries? Prepare to learn even more! From ghost ships to UFOs to haunted dolls, discover tantalizing trivia about mysteries that have haunted humanity for hundreds of years in this totally spooky book of paranormal trivia"--
