Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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1979, Juvenile, Troll Call No: 921 Bla Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traces the life of the Sauk Indian leader who struggled in vain to prevent the Americans from claiming the rich farmland near the Mississippi River in Illinois.
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2006, Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 940.53 1773 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the experience of Japanese-American children in internment and relocation camps during World War II with a focus on nineteen young people from the San Diego area and their correspondence with librarian Clara Breed. Discusses the injustices perpetrated on innocent Japanese Americans and traces the effects on various families and communities. Includes period photographs and reproductions of letters and other documents.
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2006., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 940.53 OPPENHEIM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the experience of Japanese-American children in internment and relocation camps during World War II with a focus on nineteen young people from the San Diego area and their correspondence with librarian Clara Breed. Discusses the injustices perpetrated on innocent Japanese Americans and traces the effects on various families and communities. Includes period photographs and reproductions of letters and other documents.
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2006., Scholastic Inc. Call No: 940.53 OPPENHEIM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: True stories of the Japanese-American citizens who were jailed or put into work camps during World War II, and the librarian who was their lifeline; told through letters, student writings, and oral histories from the survivors of that terrible time in American history.
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2006., Adolescent, Scholastic Call No: 940.53 OPP Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American children and teens when war broke out in December of 1941. The story of what happened to these American citizens is told through letters that her young friends wrote to Miss Breed during their internment. This librarian and humanitarian served as a lifeline to these imprisoned young people, and was brave enough to speak out against a shameful chapter in American history.
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1997., Scholastic Press Call No: 595.7 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes in verse a variety of bugs and how they look, behave, and improve our lives.
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c2003., Juvenile, Barefoot Books Call No: 394.2663 0972 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A retelling of a Mexican legend that describes the origin of the Poinsettia plant. In this version, a young girl has nothing to give the Christ child, but when the weeds she carries in her hands miraculously transform into red flowers, she now has the perfect gift.
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c1984., Dodd, Mead Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a disastrous dress rehearsal, the second-grade play is a great success but has an unexpected ending.
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1980., Dodd, Mead Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The report of a snake in the boys' bathroom causes quite a stir in Mrs. Peloki's classroom.
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c1989., Juvenile, Bantam Books Call No: E Opp Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Bank Street ready-to-read.Summary Note: In this story based on "The Little Red Hen," a little black crow asks his animal friends to help with the planting of some corn seed.
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2006., Barefoot Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Prince refuses to go to bed each night, people come from near and far with "cures," but an old woman knows the best way of putting children to sleep.
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c1987., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: No one can succeed in making the young prince go to sleep, until an old woman tries with a bedtime story.