Search Results


You are viewing:
Add 1 each from this page1 each from this pageAdd 1 each from all results1 each from all results
15 total titles found  Page 1 of 1 View page of 1  Go
Total Price: $306.63 *
Simply add a title by clicking the .
* Your Discounted Price
462327
Alias Anna : a true story of outwitting the Nazis by Hood, Susan 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)

BTSB #: 462327 Available

Dewey: 786.2092/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.9 MG

Subjects: Dawson, Zhanna Women pianists - Biography Gifted children - Biography Jewish children in the Holocaust - Ukraine Children's poetry


Summary: An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust.


489953
American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2022)

BTSB #: 489953 Available

Dewey: 616.9/NAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 1080 F&P: Z

Subjects: Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y19th century Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y20th century Public health - Southern States - History|y19th century Public health - Southern States - History|y20th century


Summary: Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better.


26.98 *

+-
949726
Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, black freedom fighter by Williams, Yohuru R. 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022)

BTSB #: 949726 Available

Dewey: 796.357/BAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 1090

Subjects: Robinson, Jackie,|d1919-1972 African American baseball players - Biography African Americans - Civil rights - History|y20th century Civil rights movements - United States - History|y20th century


Summary: An eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights.


23.48 *

+-
529994
I will protect you : a true story of twins who survived Auschwitz by Kor, Eva Mozes 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 529994 Available

Dewey: 940.53/AAges: 8-12   


Subjects: Kor, Eva Mozes Zeiger, Miriam Mozes,|d1935-1993 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors - Biography Jews - Persecutions - Romania - Port Jewish children in the Holocaust - Romania - Biography Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Romania - Salaj - Personal narratives Twins - Biography Human experimentation in medicine Port (Romania) - Biography


Summary: A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness.


602867
Inaugural ballers : the true story of the first U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team by Maraniss, Andrew 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2022)

BTSB #: 602867 Available

Dewey: 796.323/NAges: 12-14   
Lexile: 1240

Subjects: Olympic games Basketball Olympic athletes Women athletes


Summary: The inspirational true story of the birth of women's Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women's basketball on the map.


22.78 *

+-
652037
Maybe an artist : a graphic memoir by Montague, Liz 

Paperback(Random House Studio, 2022)

BTSB #: 652037 Available

Dewey: 741.5/AAges: 12-16   


Subjects: Montague, Liz - Childhood and youth - Comic books, strips, etc Cartoonists - United States - Biography


Summary: A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir by one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, at the age of 22. In graphic novel format.


14.75 *

+-
667054
Muhammad Najem, war reporter : how one boy put the spotlight on Syria by Najem, Muhammad 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 667054 Available

Dewey: 956.9104/AAges: 8-14   


Subjects: Najem, Muhammad Reporters and reporting - Syria - Biography Syria - History|y2011-, Civil War - Personal narratives


Summary: A memoir in graphic novel format by young Syrian Muhammad Najem, who rose to international notoriety during the Syrian Civil War due to his on-the-ground reporting using social media.


18.58 *

+-
667055
Muhammad Najem, war reporter : how one boy put the spotlight on Syria by Najem, Muhammad 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 667055 Available

Dewey: 956.9104/AAges: 8-14   


Subjects: Najem, Muhammad Reporters and reporting - Syria - Biography Syria - History|y2011-, Civil War - Personal narratives


Summary: A memoir in graphic novel format by young Syrian Muhammad Najem, who rose to international notoriety during the Syrian Civil War due to his on-the-ground reporting using social media.


10.65 *

+-
873612
Overground railroad : the Green book and the roots of black travel in America by Taylor, Candacy A. 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 873612 In Bindery

Dewey: 305.8009/NAges: 12-16   


Subjects: Automobile travel - United States - Guidebooks African Americans - Segregation - History|y20th century African Americans - Travel - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations - History|y20th century United States - Social conditions|y20th century


Summary: A young reader's edition of Candacy Taylor's acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America."


25.58 *

+-
095266
Race of the century : the battle to break the four-minute mile by Bascomb, Neal 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2022)

BTSB #: 095266 Available

Dewey: 796.4209/CAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.4 MG+ Lexile: 1030

Subjects: Bannister, Roger Landy, John,|d1930- Santee, Wes Runners (Sports) - Biography Running - Records Contests


Summary: There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier. Spanning three continents and defying the odds, these athletes' collective quest captivated the world.


22.78 *

+-
694961
Rocks and minerals [Animated Science]by Farndon, John 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 694961 Available

Dewey: 552/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 990

Subjects: Rocks Minerals


Summary: From gemstones to fossils and beyond, readers will explore the substances that make up our Earth through comic illustrations and hilarious characters.


10.65 *

+-
703008
Rocks and minerals [Animated Science]by Farndon, John 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 703008 Available

Dewey: 552/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 990

Subjects: Rocks Minerals


Summary: From gemstones to fossils and beyond, readers will explore the substances that make up our Earth through comic illustrations and hilarious characters.


18.58 *

+-
120214
Unlawful orders : a portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskeegee airman, surgeon, and activist by Binns, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2022)

BTSB #: 120214 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 7.9 MG Lexile: 1090

Subjects: Williams, James,|d1919-2016 United States.|bArmy Air Forces.|bBombardment Group, 477th - Biography African American physicians - Illinois - Chicago - Biography Surgeons - Illinois - Chicago - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography World War, 1939-1945 African Americans - Social conditions|y20th century South Side (Chicago, Ill.) - Biography


Summary: The inspiring story of James Buchanan "JB" Williams who became a doctor, served as a medic in the US military and eventually joined the elite Tuskegee Airmen, where he fought to change the minds of all who believed Black men couldn't make good soldiers. After the war, his role as doctor and Civil Rights activist pushed past injustices placed on Black Americans.


22.78 *

+-
314379
Urgent Message From A Hot Planet: Navigating The Climate Crisis [Orca Issues Volume: 6]by Eriksson, Ann 

Paperback New title.(Orca Book Publishing)

BTSB #: 314379 Temp OS

Dewey: 363.738/NAges: 12-16   


Summary: Outlines the science behind global heating and its root causes, provides ways to take action and honors the efforts of the millions of people from around the world working tirelessly to help the planet.


22.10 *

+-
661684
Woman who split the atom : Lise Meitner by Moss, Marissa 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 661684 Available

Dewey: 539.092/BAges: 10-14   
F&P: Z

Subjects: Meitner, Lise,|d1878-1968 Physicists - Germany - Biography Women physicists - Germany - Biography Nuclear fusion


Summary: As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field. She made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism. After she discovered the splitting of the atom, a male colleague won the Nobel Prize for her work and the race to build the atom bomb began, much to her horror.


23.48 *

+-
* Your Discounted Price

15 total titles foundBack to Top  Page 1 of 1 View page of 1  Go
Add 1 each from this page1 each from this pageAdd 1 each from all results1 each from all results

You are viewing:
Loading...