Jonah Winter
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
2) Diego
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the childhood of Diego Rivera and how it influenced his art.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the life of the iconic jazz entertainer depicts her disadvantaged youth in a segregated America, her unique performance talents, and the irrepressible sense of style that helped her overcome racial barriers.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At a former boy's school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world's greatest scientists have gathered to work on the "Gadget," an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. They work hard, surrounded by top security and sworn to secrecy, until finally they take their creation far out into the desert to test it, and afterward the world will never be the same.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
There once was a fact who could not lie. But no one believed him. When the Authorities lock the sad little fact away, along with other facts, the world goes dark. But facts are stubborn things. With the help of a few skillful fact finders, they make a daring escape and bring truth back to brighten the world. Because after all, "a fact is a fact" and that's that! -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Willie Mays was a boy, he kept his ears pressed against the radio listening to professional baseball and the play of Joe DiMaggio. He wanted desperately to play pro-ball but was not allowed to because he was a Negro and brown skinned people were not allowed to play with white skinned people. But there were many other Negro men who loved the game and formed their own league. Willie eventually joined them and even there he excelled above everyone...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Sullivan, who write operas together for a theater called Topsy-Turvydom, have a falling-out when Mr. Sullivan refuses to write music for another ridiculous story that is like all the others.
17) Peaceful heroes
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Presents a tribute to fourteen people that risked their lives to help others and make the world a better place.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winter and Widener tell the story of James Madison Hemings's childhood at Monticello, and, in doing so, illuminate the many contradictions in Jefferson's life and legacy. Though Jefferson lived in a mansion, Hemings and his siblings lived in a single room. While Jefferson doted on his white grandchildren, he never showed affection to his enslaved children. Though he kept the Hemings boys from hard field labor instead sending them to work in the carpentry...
20) Bird rehearsal
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Told entirely in birdsong, this picture book peeks behind the curtain into the glorious musicality of birds. Includes information about birds in the cast.
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