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  • Growing Up in World War II: 1941 To 1945

    Judith Pinkerton Josephson

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2002)
    Recounts the experiences of a typical childhood during World War II, including work, play, and educational activities, and identifies the struggles felt with regard to the war.
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  • Night-Night Buffalo

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, Oct. 3, 2017)
    It's bedtime in Buffalo! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:Electric TowerMcKinley MonumentBuffalo Botanical GardensUS Naval and Military ParkBuffalo Museum of ScienceBuffalo ZooBuffalo LighthouseNew Era FieldFantasy IslandUnity Island Park
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  • A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin

    Karen Hesse

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Sept. 1, 1999)
    Captures the emotions of a young Union girl who struggles to make sense of her shattered world as she lives in a state of harsh division during the first year of the Civil War. 120,000 first printing.
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  • Night-Night Arizona

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, April 4, 2017)
    It's bedtime in the Grand Canyon State! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:• Chase Field• Grand Canyon Railway• Phoenix Zoo• Monument Valley• Mission San Xavier del Bac• Lowell Observatory• Arizona Science Center• Reid Park Zoo• Arizona State Museum• Tovrea Castle• Arizona Museum of Natural History• Papago Park
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  • Journey to a Promised Land

    Allison Lassieur

    Paperback (Jolly Fish Press, Jan. 1, 2019)
    Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their dreams? It's the storytellers who preserve a nation's history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events from people whose voices have been underrepresented, lost, or forgotten over time.
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  • Dear America: Like the Willow Tree

    Lois Lowry

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 1, 2011)
    Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by their uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar way of life, Lydia must grapple with a new world that is nothing like the one she used to know.Now separated from her beloved brother, for men and women do not mix in this community, Lydia must adjust to many changes. But in time, and with her courageous spirit, she learns to find the joy in life again.
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  • Night-Night New Hampshire

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, Dec. 26, 2017)
    It's bedtime in New Hampshire! Say good night to all your favorite state landmarks and landscapes in this memorable bedtime story. Goodnight moms and daughters, Goodnight dads and sons.The world is calm and quiet.Sweet dreams to everyone!
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  • Night-Night Texas

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, Oct. 4, 2016)
    It's bedtime in the Lone Star State! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:• Houston Zoo • AT&T Stadium • Dallas World Aquarium • Texas State Capitol • Alamo Mission • Space Center Houston • Reunion Tower • Children's Museum of Houston • Big Tex • Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier • Texas Memorial Museum • Zilker Park • NRG Stadium
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  • Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903

    Kathryn Lasky

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., March 1, 1998)
    An award-winning author presents a colorful portrait of a Russian immigrant girl and her Jewish family, who begin new lives on the Lower East Side of New York City at the turn of the century.
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  • Night-Night Wisconsin

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, Oct. 4, 2016)
    It's bedtime in the Badger State! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:• Lambeau Field • Discovery World • Miller Park • Henry Vilas Zoo • Tenney Park • Wisconsin State Fair • Milwaukee City Hall • Milwaukee Art Museum • Bascom Hall, University of Wisconsin • Wisconsin State Fair • Sturgeon Bay Lighthouse • Bray's Point Lighthouse • Milwaukee Public Museum
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  • Night-Night South Carolina

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, April 4, 2017)
    It's bedtime in the Palmetto State! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:• Williams-Brice Stadium• Riverbanks Zoo• Georgetown Lighthouse• Memorial Stadium• Myrtle Beach• Peace Center for the Performing Arts• South Carolina Aquarium• Columbia Museum of Art• Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge• St. Michael's Church• South Carolina State Museum• Finlay Park
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  • Night-Night Kentucky

    Katherine Sully, Helen Poole

    Board book (Sourcebooks Wonderland, April 4, 2017)
    It's bedtime in the Bluegrass State! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:• Muhammad Ali Center• Rupp Arena• Newport Aquarium• Louisville Slugger Museum• KFC Yum Center• Kentucky Theater• Kentucky State Capitol• Belle of Louisville• Louisville Zoo• Beech Bend Park• South Fork Scenic Railway• Cherokee Park
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