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815624
Chance : escape from the Holocaust by Shulevitz, Uri 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020)

BTSB #: 815624 Available

Dewey: 940.53/AAges: 9-14   
AR: 5.9 MG

Subjects: Shulevitz, Uri,|d1935- - Childhood and youth Jewish children in the Holocaust - Poland - Biography Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Personal narratives Poland - Ethnic relations


Summary: A picture book author's memoir of how he and his Jewish family escaped the terrors of WWII by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union.


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893676
Desert diary : Japanese American kids behind barbed wire by Tunnell, Michael O. 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2020)

BTSB #: 893676 Available

Dewey: 940.53/NAges: 9-13   
Lexile: 1090

Subjects: Central Utah Relocation Center Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Japanese Americans - Personal narratives Japanese American children - Diaries World War, 1939-1945 - Children - United States


Summary: In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens who were loyal but distrusted.


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921644
Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II by Warren, Andrea 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)

BTSB #: 921644 Available

Dewey: 940.53/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.2 MG RC: 9.2 6-8 Lexile: 1030

Subjects: Mineta, Norman Yoshio,|d1931- Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) - Children - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Children - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - Children - United States - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - Japanese Americans - Children - Biography


Summary: A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned.


405239
Out of hiding : a Holocaust survivor's journey to America by Gruener, Ruth 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 405239 Available

Dewey: 940.53/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG Lexile: 840

Subjects: Gruener, Ruth Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Personal narratives Hidden children (Holocaust) - Biography Jews - Poland - Biography Holocaust survivors - New York (State) - New York - Biography New York (N.Y.) - Biography


Summary: Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. The family's perseverance is a classic story of the American dream, but also illustrates the difficulties that millions of immigrants face in the aftermath of trauma.


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040612
Path to the stars : my journey from Girl Scout to rocket scientist by Acevedo, Sylvia 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2018)

BTSB #: 040612 Available

Dewey: 369.463/AAges: 10-12   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 960

Subjects: Acevedo, Sylvia Girl Scouts of the United States of America - Officials and employees Women engineers Engineers Latinas - Biography Latino scientists - Biography


Summary: The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA.


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639759
Pearl Harbor [History Smashers]by Messner, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Random House, 2021)

BTSB #: 639759 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.9 MG Lexile: 1000 F&P: Y

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Causes Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 United States - Foreign relations - Japan Japan - Foreign relations - United States


Summary: Uncover the hidden truth behind the infamous Pearl Harbor attack.


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809570
Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team by Sheinkin, Steve 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 809570 Available

Dewey: 796.332/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.8 UG RC: 8.3 6-8 Lexile: 980

Subjects: Thorpe, Jim,|d1887-1953 Warner, Glenn S.|q(Glenn Scobey),|d1871-1954 United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) - Football


Summary: A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story of how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team.


145126
What was the bombing of Hiroshima? [What Was?]by Brallier, Jess M. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)

BTSB #: 145126 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.2 MG Lexile: 870 F&P: X

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Hiroshima-shi Atomic bomb Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History|yBombardment, 1945


Summary: By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to a rapid close. Now, even decades later, can anyone know if this was the right choice?


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Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? [Who HQ Now]by Anderson, Kirsten 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 061076 Available

Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG Lexile: 820 F&P: T

Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria,|d1989- United States.|bCongress Women legislators - United States - Biography Social action


Summary: The biography of the young New Yorker who went from being a bartender to serving in Congress.


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166463
Who is Pele? [Who Was?]by Buckley, James 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2018)

BTSB #: 166463 Available

Dewey: 796.334/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 880 F&P: T

Subjects: Pele,|d1940-2022 Soccer players Soccer


Summary: The story of how a poor boy from Brazil became the greatest soccer player of all time!


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740513
Who is the Dalai Lama? [Who Was?]by Rau, Dana Meachen 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2018)

BTSB #: 740513 Available

Dewey: 294.3/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG+RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900 F&P: V

Subjects: Bstandzin-rgya-mtsho, - Dalai Lama XIV,|d1935- Dalai lamas - Biography Tibet Region - Biography


Summary: Get to know the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader.


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635062
Who was Aretha Franklin? [Who Was?]by Medina, Nico 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin, 2018)

BTSB #: 635062 Available

Dewey: 782.4216/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.9 MG RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900 F&P: W

Subjects: Franklin, Aretha Soul musicians - United States - Biography African American musicians - Biography


Summary: A biography of the musical and cultural icon dubbed the "Queen of Soul" who created an amazing legacy spanning six decades!


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107495
Who was Celia Cruz? [Who Was?]by Pollack, Pam 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)

BTSB #: 107495 Available

Dewey: 782.4216/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG Lexile: 870 F&P: W

Subjects: Cruz, Celia Singers - Latin America - Biography Women singers - Latin America - Biography Salsa musicians - Latin America - Biography


Summary: Follow the career of one of the most beloved Latin artists of all time, from her humble beginnings in Cuba to her rise to fame to her exile from Cuba after Fidel Castro came to power to her continued stellar, award-winning accomplishments afterwards.


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Who was Confucius? [Who Was?]by Burgan, Michael 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)

BTSB #: 172954 Available

Dewey: 181/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.5 MG Lexile: 990 F&P: X

Subjects: Confucius Philosophers - China - Biography Teachers - China - Biography Conduct of life


Summary: Learn about China's most famous teacher and philosopher, whose ideas are still influential today in the teachings known as Confucianism.


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Who was Selena? [Who Was?]by Bisantz, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2018)

BTSB #: 120733 Available

Dewey: 782.4216/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 880

Subjects: Selena,|d1971-1995 Tejano musicians - Biography


Summary: Discover why Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, became one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the twentieth century!


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