"Discusses children and teens on the run during the Holocaust in Europe, including the different ways young people escaped the Nazis, places of refuge in Europe, and hiding and resistance"--Provided by publisher.
Discusses the social conditions of the decade during which prohibition was in effect, the results of the legislation, and its failure to preserve traditional values.
"Examines the Warsaw ghetto uprising, including the roots of the resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, stories from the participants in the uprising, how the battle ended, and how the small group of fighters became heroes during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
Describes the atrocities committed against Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, and other minorities in the German concentration camps, and the many trials which brought to justice some of those who were responsible.
Describes the characteristics and behavior of small dogs in general, also discussing the physical appearance and place in history of some specific breeds.
Nine-year-old Tamika uses photographs, school yearbooks, movie ticket stubs, and other mementos to try to restore the memory of her grandmother, who has Alzeheimer's disease.
During the California Gold Rush Rosabel, an African American, and Sophie, a Jew, team up and search for gold to buy Rosabel's mother her freedom from a slave catcher.
Many groups of people, such as Poles, Russians, Gypsies, and homosexuals, were persecuted and killed by the Nazis because of Adolf Hitler's hatred for them and his attempt to create a "master race."
Traces the battles that societies have waged against infectious diseases from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Ebola virus of more recent times.
Examines how geothermal energy, the force underlying hot springs, geysers, and mudpots, is being used as an alternative energy source in various parts of the world.
