A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.
Describes the reemergence of the buffalo from near extinction in the United States and traces their history in connection with cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Native Americans of the plains.
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was taken at the age of thirteen in 1944, when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.
Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.
Portland, Maine, 1918 : the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Lowry, Lois
2011
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake.
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Illustrates the U.S.'s national anthem, depicting the 1814 battle that inspired it, and presents a musical score, historical notes, and a CD containing the song.
