A dedicated doctor drives her horse through a blinding snowstorm to tend a child sick with pneumonia.
An athlete, lagging behind, pumps his arms and flies past his competitors in the 1,500-meter race, to win an Olympic gold medal.
In a tangled jungle in the South Pacific, an American marine baffles Japanese codebreakers with an ingenious code based on the Navajo language.
Susan La Flesche Picotte, Jim Thorpe, and William McCabe are just three of the distinguished American Indians you will meet in this book- Acclaimed author Doreen Rappaport re-created one dramatic moment in each person's life to give you a glimpse of their incredible accomplishments. Each portrait has been thoroughly researched and is beautifully evoked by noted artists Ying-Hwa Hu and Cornelius Van Wright.
Beginning with Tisquantum teaching the Pilgrims how to survive in a new land and ending 370 years later with Sherman Alexie writing a poem, this book provides young readers with a fresh, exciting first took at the great history and culture of American Indians.

We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians

Children's Books

Rappaport, Doreen

Biographies

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Freedom!
Eliza and her baby, running across the ice. Selena and Cornelia Jackson, masquerading as boys. Henry Box Brown, shipping himself north in a wooden crate. Jane Johnson, risking everything to testify against her former owner in court. Ellen Craft, posing as her husband's owner.
Escaping from slavery against overwhelming odds, these people were helped by courage, ingenuity, and the informal network known as the Underground Railroad. Here are their gripping stories, told by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Charles Lilly, and accompanied by information about slave laws of the era, key Underground Railroad leaders, and a bibliography.

Escape from Slavery

HarperColl

Five accounts of Black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War

Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom

History

During the American Revolution, Merchant Thomas overcharges for badly needed sugar and coffee until young Sarah Homans and the women and children of Boston band together to teach him a lesson

The Boston Coffee Party (I Can Read!)

Literature & Fiction

Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure

Six stories of American women who defied social convention to undertake dangerous adventures

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Six stories of American women who defied social convention to undertake dangerous adventures.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

A reconstruction of the Lizzie Borden trial, using testimony from edited transcripts of the trial, and during which the reader can assume the roles of judge and juror.

The Lizzie Borden Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)

Teen & Young Adult

Readers step into the jury box and judge the testimony of family, friends, the Borden housekeeper, and medical experts to decide for themselves if Lizzie Borden murdered her father and stepmother.

Recreates the murder trial of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, using edited transcripts of the testimony given in the case, and invites the reader to act as judge and jury

The Sacco-vanzetti Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)

Readers assume the roles of jury and judge and decide, on the evidence presented, if Sacco and Vanzetti, accused of murdering two security guards in 1920, were guilty or victims of prejudice.

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We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians

Escape from Slavery

Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom

The Boston Coffee Party (I Can Read!)

Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure

Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure

The Lizzie Borden Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)

The Lizzie Borden Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)

The Sacco-vanzetti Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)

The Sacco-vanzetti Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)