Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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[2020], Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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[2020]., Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: HISTORICAL F SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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2010., Juvenile, Speak Call No: FIC SMITH Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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c2008., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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c2008., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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c2008., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Ã2013., Adolescent, Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: DYSTOPIA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever"--Provided by publisher.
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c2013., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this futuristic tale, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined after a string of deadly hurricanes and epidemic of Delta Fever. Years later, Fen de la Guerre is a member of the O-Positive primitive tribe living in the Delta. When her people are ambushed, Fen is left responsible for a newborn. She is determined to get the baby over the wall before its blood is tainted by the Delta Fever. Her only hope for her and the baby's survival is Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States searching for a cure.
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[2016]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.
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c2006., Adolescent, Laurel-Leaf Books Call No: Young adult FIC SMITH Edition: 1st Laurel-Leaf ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the death of the beloved grandmother who raised her, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans expecting to be taken in by her only living relative, an aunt, but the reunion does not go as planned.
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[2015], Pre-adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: JUV001000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Penguin Workshop Call No: 974.71 SMI Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Series Title: What was--?Summary Note: "Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri L. Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance"--
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-- What is the civil rights movement.[2020]., Juvenile, Penguin Workshop Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"
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[2018]., General, Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: 921 TUSK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Penguin Workshop Call No: 940.544973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this book details thrilling flight missions and the grueling training sessions the Tuskegee Airmen underwent, it also shines a light on the lives of these brave men who helped pave the way for the integration of the US armed forces."
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Call No: 921 SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American military pilots who helped the United States win World War II. During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this book details thrilling flight missions and the grueling training sessions the Tuskegee Airmen underwent, it also shines a light on the lives of these brave men who helped pave the way for the integration of the US armed forces.
