french americans

"Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber"--OCLC.

Eleven-year-old C?cile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.

Discusses the outstanding contributions of the French to the history, civilization, and progress of America from the 16th century up to the present era.

On August 8, 2012, Amy Captain Flo Groberg tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. He was guarding a high-level delegation of American and Afghan officials when the bomber approached. Four men died and Groberg himself was seriously wounded but he saved the lives of many others through his bravery. Three years later he received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. Born in the suburbs of Paris, he was the first immigrant awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.

Encouraged by her friend Marie-Grace, Cecile finds a way to help her beloved city, New Orleans, in the aftermath of the 1853 yellow fever epidemic.

Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York mansion, a Saratoga Springs summer home, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she acquired a fortune from her first husband---a French merchant---and almost lost it to her second---notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, the battle over her estate went all the way to the United States Supreme Court---twice. Family members told of a woman who earned the gratitude of Napoleon I and shone at the courts of Louis XVIII and Charles X. Claimants to her estate painted a different picture of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, a wife who defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. Eliza Jumel's real story---so unique that it surpasses any invention---has yet to be told, until now.

Marie-Grace is excited that a well-known English opera company will perform at the very theater where she takes singing lessons from Aunt Oc?eane, but as she and her friend C?ecile help out backstage, they make disturbing discoveries.

Explores the American wilderness before the journey of Lewis and Clark during the land's ownership by the French.

"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat is full of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl Marie-Grace's age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret. Her father has hidden gold somewhere, and he's left her clues to find it"--P. [4] of cover.

When Marie-Grace arrives in New Orleans in 1853, she is not sure she fits in, until an unexpected invitation opens the door to friendship.