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Michael O Tunnell
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
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"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
2) Mailing May
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket, May is mailed to her grandmother's town and rides the train in the mail car.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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A moving primary source sheds light on the experience of Japanese American children imprisoned in a World War II internment camp.
A classroom diary created by Japanese American children paints a vivid picture of daily life in a so-called "internment camp." Mae Yanagi was eight years old when she started school at Topaz Camp in Utah. She and her third-grade classmates began keeping an illustrated diary, full of details about schoolwork, sports,...
A classroom diary created by Japanese American children paints a vivid picture of daily life in a so-called "internment camp." Mae Yanagi was eight years old when she started school at Topaz Camp in Utah. She and her third-grade classmates began keeping an illustrated diary, full of details about schoolwork, sports,...
Author
Publisher
StarWalk Kids Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Based upon the diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II, The Children of Topaz gives a detailed portrait of daily life in the camps where Japanese-Americans were taken during the war. There are many primary source documents including the children's drawings, maps of the camp, and photographs depicting the harsh, wartime attitudes toward these families.
6) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp, based on a classroom diary
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-America chilren being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Tambourine
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
Briefly surveys the life of the early American portrait painter and describes an incident in which George Washington, visiting his natural history museum, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase.
9) Wishing moon
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by the genie inside allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...