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Books with author Marlene Targbrill

  • Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Hardcover (Carolrhoda Books, March 15, 1766)
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  • Garbage Trucks

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Paperback (First Avenue Editions TM, Aug. 1, 2004)
    Garbage trucks can weigh as much as five elephants. They can pick up garbage from 400 to 500 houses before they are full. That’s a lot of trash!
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  • Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Paperback (Ohio University Press, Aug. 16, 2018)
    Selected as a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year for 2018 (Category: Twelve–Fourteen)“A biography for the times … An excellent read for anyone hoping to believe one person can make a difference.” —Kirkus (starred review)“This well-told, age-appropriate account of a vital and essential activist deserves a place in all middle grade collections.” —School Library Journal (starred review)Today, we know Dolores Huerta as the cofounder, with Cesar Chavez, of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. We know her as a tireless advocate for the rights of farmworkers, Mexican American immigrants, women, and LGBTQ populations. And we know her as the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2012. Before all that, though, Huerta was a child in the farming community of Stockton, California, and then a teenager whose teachers underestimated her because she was Chicana. When she became a teacher herself, she witnessed her students coming to school shoeless and hungry. Many took days off from school to work in the farm fields to help feed their families. What could she do to help them? A young mother at the time, Huerta quit her teaching job to organize their parents. That began her journey to educate a nation about who produces our food and the conditions under which they work.Dolores Huerta Stands Strong follows Huerta’s life from the mining communities of the Southwest where her father toiled, to the vineyards and fields of California, and across the country to the present day. As she worked for fair treatment for others, Dolores earned the nation’s highest honors. More important, she found her voice.
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  • America in the 1980s

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Examines the social, economic, political, and technological changes of the 1980s, including nuclear arms protests, the space shuttle Challenger accident, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the personal computer revolution.
  • Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Library Binding (Millbrook Pr, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Chronicles the life and career of the community organizer, Harvard Law School graduate, legislator, and civil rights lawyer who is known for his work on voting rights and employment discrimination cases, and was selected to give the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention.
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  • Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice

    Marlene Targ Brill

    eBook (Ohio University Press, Aug. 16, 2018)
    Selected as a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year for 2018 (Category: Twelve–Fourteen)“A biography for the times … An excellent read for anyone hoping to believe one person can make a difference.” —Kirkus (starred review)“This well-told, age-appropriate account of a vital and essential activist deserves a place in all middle grade collections.” —School Library Journal (starred review)Today, we know Dolores Huerta as the cofounder, with Cesar Chavez, of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. We know her as a tireless advocate for the rights of farmworkers, Mexican American immigrants, women, and LGBTQ populations. And we know her as the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2012.Before all that, though, Huerta was a child in the farming community of Stockton, California, and then a teenager whose teachers underestimated her because she was Chicana. When she became a teacher herself, she witnessed her students coming to school shoeless and hungry. Many took days off from school to work in the farm fields to help feed their families. What could she do to help them? A young mother at the time, Huerta quit her teaching job to organize their parents. That began her journey to educate a nation about who produces our food and the conditions under which they work.Dolores Huerta Stands Strong follows Huerta’s life from the mining communities of the Southwest where her father toiled, to the vineyards and fields of California, and across the country to the present day. As she worked for fair treatment for others, Dolores earned the nation’s highest honors. More important, she found her voice.
  • Concrete Mixers

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Paperback (First Avenue Editions TM, Aug. 1, 2006)
    Do you know . . . • how concrete mixers are loaded? • How concrete is made? • How concrete is unloaded?
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  • Marshall "Major" Taylor: World Champion Bicyclist, 1899-1901

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Aug. 1, 2007)
    Presents the life and times of the African-American bicycle racer who won three consecutive world championship titles at the turn of the twentieth century, a time when bicycle racing was one of the most popular sports in the world.
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  • Libya

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, Nov. 1, 1987)
    Discusses the geography, history, religion, economy, people, and everyday life of the North African country
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  • America in the 1900s

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Presents the social, political, economical, and technological changes in the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century, including labor unions, the invention of the airplane, and popularization of the automobile.
  • America in the 1990s

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Presents the social, political, economical, and technological changes in the United States during the nineteen nineties, including welfare reform, wireless communication, and the popularization of grunge music.
  • Journey for Peace: The Story of Rigoberta Menchu

    Marlene Targ Brill

    Hardcover (Dutton Juvenile, Aug. 1, 1996)
    Provides a look into the life of the Latin American woman and winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, who spread her message throughout Guatemala in the search for human rights for her people, the Maya, against the cruel and unlawful treatment they endured from powerful landowners.
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