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Chronicles the history of sit-ins and freedom rides throughout the South during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, including the sit-in by four students from North Carolina A and T University at an all-white lunch counter that sparked sit-in movements all over the South.

Photographs and text highlight influential people and events that shaped the African-American community in the United States from 1929 to 1954.

Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrester arrives in San Francisco with her family in 1851 and dresses like a boy in the mostly-male town, cutting her hair and wearing a cap to work as a newsboy in order to sell Eastern newspapers and participate in the biggest stories of the day.

Chronicles the history of slavery in the Americas, and provides photographs, illustrations, and text to describe the fates of over twelve million Africans who were taken by European ships to the plantation colonies in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the mainland of North America.

Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

A copy of a book from the library at Hogwart's, the school where Harry Potter and other young wizards receive their training, providing information about history and conduct of Quidditch, a sport played by competing teams on flying brooms. Proceeds from this book will go to Comic Relief U.K.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Cherokee Indians.