Recounts the events leading up to the war--North-South rivalry, slavery, John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry, and more

A Nation Torn : The Story of How the Civil War Began

Ray, Delia

Children's Books

Lodestar Books

Portrays the worklife of a public defender as she investigates cases and represents poor people in criminal proceedings before the Los Angeles County courts

Public Defender: Lawyer For The People

Hewett, Joan

Hewett, Richard

Literature & Fiction

Describes the field trip of eleven Cub Scouts from Alaska to Provideniya, a small town in the Soviet Far East.

Friendship Across Arctic Waters : Alaskan Cub Scouts Visit Their Soviet Neighbors

Claire Rudolf Murphy

Bright photographs, colorful art borders, and a familiar text follow a chick as it hatches from an egg, grows from a small featherless baby, pecks for seeds, rides on its father's back, and displays its adult features.

Chick (See How They Grow Series)

Burton, Jane

Having crossed the border into the United States illegally, Maria, her ailing brother, Oscar, and her pregnant sister, Julia, hide from the immigration officials who would send them back to El Salvador and the mercy of the Guardias

Journey of the Sparrows

Fran Leeper Buss

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Despite his mother's warning that kicking at the toad frogs will bring him bad luck, Little Eight John does so anyway and then is shocked when trouble comes looking for him, in a lively folktale from rural North Carolina.

Little Eight John

JAN WAHL

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Nine-year-old Oliver's wish on the magical rocks backfires and he must spend an entire day at the county fair trying to change his brother, Danny, back into a boy--from a competitive frog.

Leap Frog Friday

Ellen Leroe

Bad-tempered Crabapple Sam lives alone at the seashore, until Celeste arrives to soften him up and renew the damaged friendship between him and her grandfather.

Celeste and Crabapple Sam

Jennifer Brutschy

In a tribute to the customs and traditions of Latinos in the United States, engaging photographs capture four fiestas: the Day of the Dead, las Posadas, the dance of the Matachines, and Three Kings' Day.

Fiesta U.S.A (Spanish Edition)

Ancona, George

Biographies

James Chisholm collects and translates the major texts originally written in the Greek and Latin languages which report on the religious practices of the ancient, pre-Christian Germanic peoples. This body of evidence should be read in conjunction with Tacitus and other early sources to discover otherwise unknown aspects of the ancient Germanic past.

Grove and Gallows: Greek and Latin Sources for Germanic Heathenism

History

Chisholm, James

World

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