Books with author Judith Pinkerton Josephson

When the midwestern United States was still young and rugged, a Scottish immigrant named Allan Pinkerton founded the first detective agency in the country. The methods he used were simple, but in 1850, they broke new ground. Facts and codes were recorded in small black notebooks; his agents worked undercover, in disguise. He created the first female detective department and protected Abraham Lincoln en route to his first inauguration. With keen senses and fierce determination, Allan Pinkerton and his agents solved many of the era's most celebrated crimes. He captured gangs of train and bank robbers and exposed the secrets and identities of cunning Civil War spies. In a biography that combines historical detail, photographs, and excerpts from Allan Pinkerton's own letters and books, Judith Pinkerton Josephson takes you inside the spymaster’s headquarters and out on the trail with Pinkerton and his force. Josephson also provides insight into the personality of this complex and ambitious man.

Who or whom? Lay or lie? Conjunction, pronoun, predicate, or gerund? If such questions and terms leave you scratching your head, you need the hip and fun follow-up to NITTY-GRITTY GRAMMAR. With a new, easy-to-use alphabetical format and the same winning formula of wacky cartoons, off-the-wall examples, and catchy reminders, MORE NITTY-GRITTY GRAMMAR will help you sidestep common bloopers, untangle your malapropisms, secure those dangling modifiers, and teach you to speak and write with clarity and confidence.

After her husband and four children died in a yellow fever epidemic, Mary Harris Jone, known as Mother Jones, took up the cause of American workers, adopting them as her family. In the late 19th century, workers—adults and many children— in coal mines, textile mills, and other industries often labored for long hours under dangerous conditions for wages that could barely sustain them. For sixty years, Mother Jones crisscrossed the nation, urging men, women, and child workers to fight for their rights through labor unions. Her mission took her from the poorest coal miner’s shack to the halls of Congress, from the ragged children of the textile mills to presidents of the United States. Fierce, feisty, and determined, Mother Jones was one of American labor’s most unforgettable champions, a role model for young people today.Part of the Spotlight Biography series from eFrog Press, these ebooks, written by well-published authors, cover people to emulate and admire.

"I always loved running," said track and field legend Jesse Owens, who as a boy could outrun all his playmates. That blazing speed helped Owens set track records in junior high, high school, and on into college at Ohio State University. At one Big Ten meet, he smashed three world records and tied a fourth in 45 minutes. By the time Owens competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, people used words like "express" and "comet to describe him. Germany's leader, Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi party believed that Jews, African-Americans, and other groups were inferior beings. Jesse Owens proved them wrong by winning four gold medals.This previously published biography contains updates, revisions, new cover and photos, and hyperlinks. Jesse Owens succeeded in spite of the racism of his day, poverty, and other obstacles. He met these issues with strength, perseverance, and grace. A man of determination and courage, he rose above the bigotry of the era to become a consummate athlete, humanitarian, friend and role model for youth, and ambassador of sports.

War affects children, no matter where in the world it’s waged or what countries are involved. Sometimes it leads young people to serve and do extraordinary things. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Verna Morimatsu, age seven, had been playing outside when she noticed strange planes flying toward Pearl Harbor. When she entered her house, she heard a huge crash and found a gaping hole left by an unexploded bomb that had fallen through the roof and dining room floor, leaving splinters strewn about, and the furniture in pieces. An attack on Pearl Harbor had begun. In this newly revised ebook version of the original print book, discover what life was like for American children during World War II through true stories of young people who lived through this time. The people readers will meet in this book are real. Even their names—Dorinda, Verna, Eugene, Florence, Jody, Leroy, Fred, Marjorie, Vina, Jean, Martha, Martin, Dot, John, Marialyse, Neal, Nancy, Robert, Sammy, Paul, and Susan—offer clues about the era in which they were young. Faced with the possible loss of fathers, brothers, uncles, and friends fighting overseas, young people did their best to help out at home. They collected scrap metal, saved money to buy war bonds, planted Victory Gardens, and learned to do without things like sugar, butter, new shoes, and bicycles. Some welcomed children from other countries, sent by their parents to escape the fighting. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many innocent Japanese American children and their families were forced to leave their homes and businesses and were sent to internment camps, despite being U.S. citizens. Children who lived through World War II never forgot. As adults, they found that the war changed their lives forever.Written for middle grade readers and up, Growing Up in WWII makes this now “long ago” war real to young people and challenges them to think about patriotism, sacrifice, and the impact of history. The many photographs of children and primary source documents like letters, maps, posters, and even recipes bring the period of 1941 to 1945 to life.

On May 26, 1838, U.S. soldiers surrounded Cherokee villages across Georgia. The soldiers came to force Cherokee families to move to a new territory in Oklahoma. The Cherokees had little time to gather their belongings before being herded into camps. From there, 13,000 were forced on the thousand-mile journey to Oklahoma. They had little food and no shelter from the weather. Many―especially children―grew sick and died. The forced march became known as nunna-dual-tsuny―the Trail of Tears.