Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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c2008., A.A. Knopf Call No: 323.092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
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c2011., Adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1928 in Massena, New York, Jewish sixteen-year-old Jack Pool, in love with his Christian neighbor, is accused of killling her little sister for a blood sacrifice.
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By Bick, Ilsa Jc2010., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: SUSPENSE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
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By Bick, Ilsa Jc2010., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: Mystery FIC BICK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
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[2014], Lucky Sky Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC FOLLETT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three individuals experience prejudice differently against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, from 1954 to 1964, and each develops their own concept of freedom. Twelve-year-old Joan Barnes considers freedom her birthright as the child of upper middle class Yankee Catholics in Mississippi. C.J. Evans was born to a life of cleaning whitefolks' houses and freedom is what she holds in her heart and can't be taken from her. And for Zach Bernstein, a Jewish University of Chicago law student, freedom is an ever-expanding circle that can only get bigger. As the lives of these three collide when Zach comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to teach at the Meridian Freedom School, they will each come to question their concepts of freedom and what price they are willing to pay for it.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Algonquin Call No: HISTORICAL F CAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
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2019., Adolescent, Algonquin Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
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2010., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: Historical fiction FIC CHAPMAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.
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2010., Henry Holt and Co Call No: HISTORICAL F BRA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the civil rights movement.
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2004., PowerKids Press Call No: 973.04 THO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Explores religious intolerance towards Jewish immigrants in America and includes information on their arrival from Russia and immigrant aid societies, jobs and life in the cities, raising children, and being a part of a community.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City, still worried about Marcel, his good friend who he left behind, and surprised to find bigotry in America, too.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC ROSENBERG Edition: First edition, July 2017. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon; his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything; his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other; he is beginning to notice girls; and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
