Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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2021., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Shabazz Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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c2005., Juvenile, KCP Fiction Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Prisoners of the Union being kept in a Confederate prison dream of a prisoner exchange or escape or even death.
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c2012., Juvenile, American Girl Pub. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American girls collection. Volume: 2.Summary Note: Caroline and her mother make a dangerous journey across Lake Ontario to the British fort where Papa is being held prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to pass a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard! She hopes desperately that Papa will understand her message and make an escape. But can she get to him in time? The illustrated "Looking Back" section explores how the War of 1812 affected women and children.
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2015., Kensington Books Call No: HISTORICAL F MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Shanley Keagan, tired of the dismal pay he gets as a vaudevillian actor in Dublin pubs, takes the chance to go to America and search for his real father. Tragedy strikes, forcing Shan to use his ingenuity to create a new life in a volatile world. Two decades later, Shan's story becomes part of a prison guard's daughter's, who goes missing on the island of Alcatraz. The search for the guard's daughter will decide the fate of bank robber Tommy Capello, who is the only one who knows the truth of where she is.
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By Avi, 1937-2019., Pre-adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
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2017., Skyhorse Publishing Call No: REALISTIC F PON Edition: First Skyhorse edit Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2002., MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD FIC MIS Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: A Special Forces colonel, Braddock, is captured during a daring mid-air rescue operation in Vietnam. Colonel Yin will stop at nothing to break the spirit of Braddock but he will not break.
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2000., MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD FIC MIS Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: Special Forces colonel James Braddock (Norris) reluctantly returns to Vietnam after the war on a fact-finding mission to search for MIA's. He himself spent 10 years in a North Vietnamese labor camp until he led his men in a daring escape. He enlists the aid of State Dept. official Ann Fitzgerald (Kasdorf) and slips away to find the location of the MIA prison camp. From Bangkok, with the help of his old Army buddy Tuck (Walsh), now a smuggler, he mounts a rescue expedition.
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1994,c1991, Juvenile, Puffin Call No: HIS FIC WIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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1991., Juvenile, Lodestar Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC WISLER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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By Avi, 1937-c2012., Beach Lane Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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By Avi, 1937-c2012, Pre-adolescent, Beach Lane Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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By Avi, 1937-c2012., Beach Lane Books Call No: HISTORICAL F AVI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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1988, c1973, Juvenile, Bantam Call No: HIS FIC GRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
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[1973], Dial Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
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p1995., Adolescent, Recorded Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.
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2006, c1973., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: FIC GREENE Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
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2006, c1973, Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Puffin modern classicsSummary Note: Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
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2022., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Johnson Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
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By Chee, Traci[2020]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
