1929-

Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

"... a narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics."--Provided by publisher.

"The...story of a secret FDR-approved prisoner exchange program run during World War II from Crystal City, Texas, an American internment camp where thousands of families were incarcerated"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a synopsis of George Selden's "The Cricket in Times Square" accompanied by pre- and post-reading activities and reproducible comprehension, writing, and vocabulary activity sheets.

Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

Kathryn Johnson, one of the only female reporters there, covered the civil rights movement across the South in the 1960's often risking her own safety to observe first-hand the events of this era. She witnessed the integration of the University of Georgia by dressing as a student, hid unobserved under a table near an infamous schoolhouse door in Alabama, and marched with the crowd from Selma to Montgomery. She was on her way to a movie date when word came that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. She immediately changed her plans and went to cover the story. Johnson's many years covering King and the movement gave her immediate access and King's family trusted her as a discreet, observant witness to a pivotal moment in American history.

A translation of the diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a 14 year-old Jewish girl, that describes her life in Poland's Lodz ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944.

From 1942 to 1945, secret government trains regularly delivered civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children to a family internment camp, the only one during World War II. Crystal City was the center of a government exchange program. During the war, hundreds of prisoners, including their children, were exchanged for ostensibly more important Americans---diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries that were behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.