Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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-- John F. Kennedy and the great space race[2019]., Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HI-INT 629.4 BRI Edition: Young readers' edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "July 20, 1969. It's a day that has earned a spot in history. It's the day that America was the first nation to succeed in sending two astronauts--Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong--to the moon. But what led to this unforgettable event? What were the stakes riding on the Apollo 11's safe landing? In acclaimed author Douglas Brinkley's first young readers' edition, space fans will get the riveting and factual backstory of arguably the most significant achievement of the 20th century."--
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[2018]., Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 510.9 SHETTERLY Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
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Ã2015., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Narrative text, informative sidebars, photographs, and illustrations describe the attempt to escape slavery by Emily Edmonson and her family and the ramifications of it.
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2015., Algonquin Young Readers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 1848: Emily Edmonson was among seventy-six fugitives caught on the Pearl during America's largest slave escape attempt. She was to be sent south - unless her father paid ransom.
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[2015], Juvenile, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: BIO Emily Edmonson Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people boarded the Pearl under cover of night in Washington, D.C., hoping to sail north to freedom. Within a day, the schooner was captured, and the Edmonsons were sent to New Orleans to be sold into even crueler conditions. Passenger on the Pearl is the story of this thwarted escape, of the ramifications of its attempt, and of a family for whom freedom was the ultimate goal. Conkling takes readers on Emily Edmonson's journey from enslaved person to teacher at a school for African American young women. Her path crosses those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, inspiring the character of Emmeline in Uncle Tom's Cabin. She also illuminates a turbulent time in American history, showing the daily lives of enslaved people, the often-changing laws affecting them, the high cost of a failed escape, and the stories of slave traders and abolitionists.
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2015., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Narrative text, informative sidebars, photographs, and illustrations describe the attempt to escape slavery by Emily Edmonson and her family and the ramifications of it.
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-- How Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world.2018., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: 539.7 CON Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the story of two female physicists whose discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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2016., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: HI-INT 920 CON Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1934, Irene Curie, working with her husband and fellow physicist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that forever altered the world: artificial radioactivity. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to the scientific epiphany that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atomic bomb.
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2016., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: 539.7 52 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1934, Irene Curie, working with her husband and fellow physicist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that forever altered the world: artificial radioactivity. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to the scientific epiphany that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atomic bomb.
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2016., Algonquin Call No: 920 CONKLING Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller.
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-- Irène Curie & Lise Meitner2016., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: Inventors & Inventions Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the story of two female physicists whose discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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-- Irène Curie & Lise Meitner2016., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: WOMEN'S STUDIES Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the story of two female physicists whose discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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-- Sylvia and Akic2011., Tricycle Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
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-- Sylvia and Aki2013., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: HISTORICAL F CON Edition: First Yearling edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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2018., Algonquin Call No: WOMENS STUDIES NF CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote"--
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2018., Adolescent, Algonquin Call No: HI-INT 920 CON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote. This expansive yet personal volume covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions.
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2018., Algonquin Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote"--
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-- American suffragists and the battle for the ballot[2018], Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: 324.6 CONKLING Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions.
