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  • Young Martin's Promise

    Walter Dean Myers, Barbara Higgins Bond

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Relates events in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, childhood which sowed the seeds for his activism for equal rights for people, regardless of their color.
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  • Osceola: Patriot and Warrior

    Moses Jumper, Ben Sonder, Pat Soper

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Describes the struggle of Seminole chief and warrior Osceola to save his people from being forced off their land in Florida.
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  • Never Turn Back: Father Serra's Mission

    James J. Rawls, Alex Haley

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Aug. 1, 1993)
    Describes the life of the Spanish priest who established missions in California in the late eighteenth century and discusses the lack of understanding between him and the Indians he came to convert.
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  • A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam

    Walter Dean Myers, Frederick Porter

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Aug. 1, 1992)
    Describes the ordeal of Major Fred Cherry, who was shot down in combat over Vietnam and spent seven-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.
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  • Steck-Vaughn Stories of America: Student Reader To Fly with Swallows , Story Book

    STECK-VAUGHN

    Paperback (STECK-VAUGHN, June 18, 2009)
    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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  • Life in Pacific Grove California: Personal Stories by Residents and Visitors to Butterfly Town U.S.A.

    Patricia Hamilton, Joyce Krieg, Keith Larson, Phyllis Edwards, Bill Monning, Pacific Grove Residents and Visitors

    Paperback (PARK PLACE PUBLICATIONS, Sept. 12, 2017)
    Historical information about the Methodist Retreat beginnings supplied by Randy Reinstedt. Plus more than 400 personal stories written by residents and visitors, which include WWII memories of how the town reacted and helped during the war, growing up in the 1930s-1940s- and forward; and details of their interests and lives up to the present, 2017. This project was conceived and produced—with the help of the entire town—by Patricia Hamilton and her team of personal history/memoir professionals. An innovative Hero/ine's Journey Worksheet is included for use in writing an outline for all genres. This worksheet is also used in memoir writing classes to reveal traits and strengths the writer may not have identified or acknowledged, thereby empowering and inspiring the individual and the community. This book is the first in the "Stories of America" series, created to foster individual and community spirit throughout America. Watch for the Stories of America how-to book, created for cities and personal history professionals, to be released early 2019.

  • The Tenement Writer: An Immigrant's Story

    Ben Sonder, Meryl Rosner

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Aug. 1, 1993)
    Follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer
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  • Steck-Vaughn Stories of America: Student Reader Walking for Freedom , Story Book

    STECK-VAUGHN

    Paperback (STECK-VAUGHN, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Recounts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.
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  • A Matter of Conscience: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson

    Joan Kane Nichols, Dan Krovatin

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.
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  • Days of Courage: The Little Rock Story

    Richard Kelso, Alex Haley, Mel Williges

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Aug. 16, 1993)
    Describes the experiences of the "Little Rock Nine," the first Black students to begin the integration of schools in Arkansas in 1957
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  • Steck-Vaughn Stories of America: Student Reader These Lands are Ours , Story Book

    STECK-VAUGHN

    Paperback (STECK-VAUGHN, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Discusses the life of the Shawnee warrior, orator, and leader who united a confederacy of Indians in an effort to save Indian land from the advance of white soldiers and settlers.
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  • A Flag for Our Country

    Eve Spencer, Alex Haley, Michael Eagle

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Relates how a Philadelphia seamstress helped design and make the first flag to represent the United States of America
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