Fastest girl on Earth! : meet Kitty O'Neil, daredevil driver! by Robbins, Dean 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2021)

BTSB #: 757807 Available

Dewey: 796/BAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 560 AD

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Subjects: O'Neil, Kitty Women athletes - Biography Cherokee women - Biography Native American women - Biography Deaf Speed Stunt performers - Biography

Summary: Kitty O'Neil was a force to be reckoned with. She jumped, ran, raced, and swam, all while learning to read lips and communicating through sign language. Eventually, Kitty took a job as a stuntwoman, doing the most dangerous job on set and even filming stunts for films and television shows like Wonder Woman!

Helen Keller [DK Life Stories]by Romero, Libby 

BTSB Prebound(DK, 2019)

BTSB #: 762927 Available

Dewey: 362.4/BAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 930 F&P: W

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Subjects: Keller, Helen,|d1880-1968 Sullivan, Annie,|d1866-1936 Blind Deaf

Summary: The inspiring story of Helen Keller who overcame the odds by learning to understand and communicate with the world despite her disabilities.

Signs of survival : a memoir of the Holocaust by Hartman, Renee G. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 423617 In Bindery

Dewey: 940.53/CAges: 8-12   


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Subjects: Jewish children - Czech Republic - Biography Jewish children in the Holocaust - Czech Republic Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Czech Republic Deaf Czechoslovakia - Ethnic relations - History|y20th century Czechoslovakia - History|y1938-1945

Summary: As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached so they could hide. Soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.