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Dorothea Lange: A photographer's life
Milton Meltzer
Hardcover (Farrar Straus Giroux, March 15, 1978)None
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Hour of Freedom: American History in Poetry
Milton Meltzer
Hardcover (WordSong, June 1, 2003)Milton Meltzer, one of the most respected chroniclers of twentieth-century history, turns his attention to the most personal of genres--poetry--and selects fifty-nine poems by American writers that celebrate, assail, and define events within seven major historical periods of the United States. Old masters, such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and William Cullen Bryant and modern-day greats, such as Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as today's young poets offer their personal perspectives of events that have shaped our lives. This rich, important collection features brief notations that precede each poem, placing each work in the context of the period. Biographies of each poet illuminate each life. Here is a major poetry anthology that gives young readers "the poets' sense of the past, as well as of the life around them . . . extending and deepening the range of our own experience."
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Willa Cather: A Biography
Milton Meltzer
Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Dec. 15, 2007)Examines the life, times, and writings of the American author who immortalized the Great Plains and Nebraska countryside in such works as "My âAntonia," "Death Comes to the Archbishop," and "One of Ours."
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The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words, 1750-1800
Milton Meltzer
Hardcover (Crowell, Aug. 16, 1987)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the 18th-century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.
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There Comes a Time; The Struggle for Civil Rights
Milton Meltzer
Paperback (Scholastic, New York, Aug. 16, 2002)A story about a movement pioneered by black people, but came to represent the common interests of all Americans, regardless of color.
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Langston Hughes
Milton Meltzer
Paperback (Millbrook Press, Aug. 1, 1997)Tells the story of a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s who devoted his life to writing about the Black experience in America
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography
Milton Meltzer
Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Aug. 1, 2006)Presents an in-depth look at the life of the author of "Twice-Told Tales," "The Scarlet Letter," and "The House of Seven Gables."
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Driven from the Land: The Story of the Dust Bowl
Milton Meltzer
Hardcover (Cavendish Square Publishing, Jan. 1, 2000)Among the authors of this highly acclaimed series are Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer, Coretta Scott King Award winner James Haskins and noted author Raymond Bial. The series itself focuses on major population shifts in America and the driving forces behind them. The authors' vivid accounts are given additional immediacy with the inclusion of excerpts from diaries, newspaper articles and letters.
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Andrew Jackson: And His America
Milton Meltzer
Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 1993)A look at the life and times of our seventh president.
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Henry David Thoreau
Milton Meltzer
Library Binding (Twenty-First Century Books, Dec. 22, 2006)Profiles the solitary student of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was well-known as a naturalist in his own time but who became posthumously famous for his writings.
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Langston Hughes
Milton Meltzer
Library Binding (Millbrook Press, Aug. 1, 1997)Tells the story of a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s who devoted his life to writing about the black experience in America.
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Never to forget: The Jews of the holocaust
Milton Meltzer
Hardcover (Harper & Row, Aug. 16, 1976)Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean to us today? We can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible?We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible. One. Two. Three. Often more. Here are the stories of thode people, recorded in letters and diaries, and in the memories of those who survived. Seen through their eyes, the horror becomes real. We cannot deny it--and we can never forget. `Based on diaries, letters, songs, and history books, a moving account of Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany before and during World War II.' —Best Books for Young Adults Committee (ALA). `A noted historian writes on a subject ignored or glossed over in most texts. . . . Now that youngsters are acquainted with the horrors of slavery, they are more prepared to consider the questions the Holocaust raises for us today.' —Language Arts. `[An] extraordinarily fine and moving book.' —NYT. Notable Children's Books of 1976 (ALA)Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970-1983 (ALA)1976 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for NonfictionBest Books of 1976 (SLJ)Outstanding Children's Books of 1976 (NYT)Notable 1976 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)1977 Jane Addams AwardNominee, 1977 National Book Award for Children's LiteratureIBBY International Year of the Child Special Hans Christian Andersen Honors ListChildren's Books of 1976 (Library of Congress)1976 Sidney Taylor Book Award (Association of Jewish Libraries)