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4) Threads
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this new second revised edition of Canada the People, candid photos feature Canadian families and how they live. Updated facts and statistics support this fascinating portrayal of a nation built on immigration. Important issues that must be resolved with the Native peoples are sensitively portrayed.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of visual and verbal facts describe the experiences of children living in America from 1607 through 2001, from surviving a harsh James Towne winter to witnessing the chaos of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
13) Factory girl
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily must hold down her job working twelve-hour days in a garment factory in order to keep from starving. A story that includes historical interludes about the working conditions in factories at the turn of the century.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Some of the most important issues of our time were no less important 100 years ago. America in 1919, at the close of World War I, was shaken from the events of large-scale warfare, fearing a Communist takeover, and facing an incredible amount of social and political change. From Prohibition to women's suffrage, the labor strikes to the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, this book explores each major movement of 1919. Showing how these...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean...
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