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  • Dragon Parade: A Chinese New Year Story

    Steven A. Chin

    Paperback (STECK-VAUGHN, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Examines life as a Chinese immigrant in 1850s San Francisco, and describes the tradition, preparation, and excitement of the Chinese New Year
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  • To Fly With the Swallows: A Story of Old California

    Dana Catharine De Ruiz, Debbie Heller

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Aug. 1, 1993)
    A biography of the woman who became California's first native-born nun, describing a life that spanned the transitional period from Spanish rule to American statehood.
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  • Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars: 1689-1763

    Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 5, 2000)
    As early as 1630, Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands had settlements or colonies in North America. Always looking for ways to expand their territory, these European nations were constantly at war with one another over trade, borders, and religious differences. Beginning in 1689, their conflicts in Europe spread across the Atlantic to America. Over the next seventy years, competing European powers would battle for control of the New World. The winner would take the prize -- all of North America.Struggle for a Continent tells the riveting story of the French and Indian Wars seventy-four years of fighting that determined the destiny of the future United States. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
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  • These Lands Are Ours: Tecumseh's Fight for the Old Northwest

    Kate Connell, Alex Haley, Jan Naimo Jones

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, June 1, 1993)
    Discusses the life of the Shawnee leader who united Indians in an effort to save their land
    Q

  • Viva Mexico!: A Story of Benito Juarez and Cinco De Mayo

    Argentina Palacios, Howard Berelson

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    A biography of the Zapotec Indian who grew up to become the President of Mexico and lead his country in a war for independence.
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  • When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story

    Steven A. Chin, David Tamura

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Relates the experiences of the Japanese American who defied the order of internment during World War II and went to the Supreme Court
    V

  • Steck-Vaughn Stories of America: Student Reader Never Turn Back, Story Book

    STECK-VAUGHN

    Paperback (STECK-VAUGHN, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Describes the life of a missionary and his lack of understanding
    S

  • Steck-Vaughn Stories of America: Student Reader Save the Everglades , Story Book

    STECK-VAUGHN

    Paperback (STECK-VAUGHN, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Describes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades
    R

  • We Want Jobs!: A Story of the Great Depression

    Robert J. Norrell, John Waskowitz, Jan Naimo Jones

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to descirbe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.
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  • All for the Better: A Story of El Barrio

    Nicholasa Mohr, Rudy Gutierrez

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Profiles Evelina Antonetty, a Puerto Rican immigrant who helped people in Spanish Harlem during the Depression
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  • Save the Everglades

    Judith Bauer Stamper, Alex Haley, Allen Davis

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Describes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades
    K

  • Building a Dream: Mary Bethune's School

    Richard Kelso, Debbie Heller

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Describes Bethune's struggle to establish a school for Black children
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