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"Number the Stars"
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Description: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. $2.50 ppd
The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours the Danish resistance, population and police arranged a small flotilla to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account to bring this courageous tale to life. She brings the experience to life through the eyes of 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles Ellen's family out of the country. Number the Stars won the 1990 Newbery Medal.
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Description: "Under the Blood-Red Sun" (Scott O'Dell award for Historical Fiction.) by Graham Salisbury. Paperback. $2.50 ppd.
Salisbury captures the dilemma of the Japanese who lived in Hawaii during World War II through the narrator, Tomi, born in Hawaii, and his Japanese parents, who had escaped the poverty of Japan, only to find themselves enmeshed in a war they are unprepared to fight. As tensions between Japan and the U.S. mount, eighth-grader Tomi finds himself more and more the target of his classmates' and neighbors' suspicions. Well aware of the increasing tension between native islanders and Japanese immigrants, Tomi desperately tries to tone down his grandfather's displays of nationalistic and family pride, a job the boy finds distasteful (he, too, loves the stories of his ancestors), yet horrifyingly necessary. Neither his grandfather nor the rest of the family can ignore the seriousness of the situation after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. On a baseball field when the first planes fly over, Tomi and his best friend, Billy, climb a nearby tree to escape the strafing and to see what is happening. Salisbury spares few details--the fear, the horror, the sounds, the smells all envelop the reader as they do the characters. And so do the grief and shame. The Japanese embarrassment is palatable, and, of course, life is never the same again. Tomi's father is eventually deported to a U.S. prison camp; his mother loses her job; and his little sister is so traumatized that she refuses to leave the house. The action-packed novel focuses on the Japanese American perspective during World War II; yet, there are few real villains here. The author subtly reveals the natural suspicions of the Americans and the equally natural bewilderment of the Japanese immigrants when they suddenly become the personification of the enemy.
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Soda Science: Designing and Testing Soft Drinks (B
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Description: Soda Science: Designing and Testing Soft Drinks (Boston Children's Museum Activity Book) (paperback) $4 ppd.
Zubrowski uses a series of fun, simple kitchen science experiments to explore the process of soda pop manufacturing. More than 50 experiments are included, demonstrating such things as how colors and flavors are extracted from natural ingredients and how yeast and baking soda can be used to create
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Description: "A Part of the Sky" paperback fiction by Robert Newton Peck. $2.50 ppd.
A sequel to the well-respected A Day No Pigs Would Die. Both deal with a Shaker boy and his maturation on a Vermont farm in the 1920's. Especially stressed are the boy's love for his family and the farm animals, as well as the importance of the land. Especially inspiring and instructive for young adults, the story underscores the goodness of Shaker ways.
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"A Day No Pigs Would Die"
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Description: "A Day No Pigs Would Die" paperback fiction by Robert Newton Peck. $2.50 ppd.
This is an interesting book about a 13 year old Shaker boy coming of age. It is also used for unit studies. You can buy a study guide from Amazon.
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"Wuthering Heights"
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Description: "Wuthering Heights" (Oxford World's Classics) by Emily Bronte. Paperback. Like new. $5 ppd.
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"Shaker Hearts"
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Description: "Shaker Hearts" - a beautiful hardbound book by Ann Turner and paintings by Wendell Minor. $5.50 ppd Great condition.
The simplicity, hard work, and dedication of Shaker life are conveyed through verse and pictures that trace a day from morning to night: "Morning is a golden face, hands to work, hearts to God, sisters shake the linens out, white as morning snow." Gardening, baking, carpentry, and cleaning fill a day that concludes with dancing. In every verse, Turner repeats words of Shaker founder Ann Lee: "hands to work, hearts to God." Minor's acrylic paintings catch the stillness and cleanliness of the people and their surroundings, and the book design is spacious and crisp in Shakerlike fashion. Opening and closing notes give background information.
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"Heartland"
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Description: "Heartland" by Diane Siebert, Wendell Minor (Illustrator). Paperback. $4 ppd. Like new.
Here is a description of this beautifully illustrated book:
I am the Heartland,
Great and wide.
I sing of hope.
I sing of pride.
Welcome to America's Heartland -- a place where the golden wheat waves in the breeze, where great rivers flow, and cornfields stretch across the plains in glorious patchwork quilts of greens and yellows and browns. Cattle graze in lush green pastures, horses and sheep fill the barns, and a new born calf stands damp and warm in the sun. This is the Heartland, where the farmer is king -- but over everything, Nature reigns supreme.
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"Coat of Many Colors"
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Description: "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton, Judith Sutton (Illustrator) $4 ppd. Paperback. Like new.
The rolling hills of Tennessee farmland, framed in lovely patchwork quilt patterns, set the stage for Dolly Parton's (of Grand Ol' Opry fame) warm childhood memories. The text comes directly from Parton's autobiographical hit country and western song of the same name. The story centers on a poor, but happy and loving, family who find clever ways to deal with their poverty. As winter approaches, Mama sews a coat for her daughter from a box of scraps that someone has given her. Of course her classmates make fun of her for having a coat made of rags. But sticks and stones... "And although we had no money / I was rich as I could be / in my coat of many colors / that Mama made for me." That doesn't mean the child's feelings aren't hurt, or that she didn't feel angry. But the message comes through loud and clear: the child's mother has provided her with the strength to deal with other children's jeers, and family love can sometimes be enough to pull a person through.
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"Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection
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Description: "Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems" (Reading Rainbow Book). By Mary Ann Hoberman, Marylin Hafner (Illustrator). $4 ppd. Paperback. Like new.
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American Girls Collection
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Description: These are brand new hardback editions of:
BRAND NEW!"Addy Learns a Lesson : A School Story" – book 2. $4
BRAND NEW!"Addy's Surprise : A Christmas Story" – Book 3. $4
BRAND NEW!"Happy Birthday, Molly : A Springtime Story" - Book 4. $4
All 3 for $9 postage paid
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Joshua: A Parable for Today. By Joseph F. Girzone.
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Description: Joshua: A Parable for Today. By Joseph F. Girzone. This is a paperback in very good condition. $5.50 postage paid. I take check, money order or PayPal.
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