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Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America. Some families have left Iraq with money; others are penniless and ill or disabled. Most of the children have parents who are working illegally or not at all, and the fear of deportation is a constant threat. Ellis...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded in them--a trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. This is a new version of the war we're so familiar with....
5) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A recounting of the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who arranged for the transport of nearly 700 children who would otherwise have been sent by the Nazis to concentration camps in the late 1930s. From the 2022 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Christmas concert"--
"The inspiring, true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who ingeniously rescued hundreds of children before Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. The shadow of war was spreading...
9) Reunion
Author
Publisher
Epic
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
1998's Reunion is as close to an official live album as the band has had in their historic 30-year career.
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