Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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Eleven-year-old Ada's clubfoot has been fixed at last, and she knows now that she's not what her mother said she was - damaged and deranged. But soon Ada learns that she's not a daughter anymore either. Who is she now? World War II rages on, and Ada and her brother move with their guardian, Susan, into a cottage with the iron-face Lady Thorton and her daughter. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth moves in. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany....
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What does it mean when the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence is your father and also your slave master?
Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson’s children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father’s identity secret. They get special treatment—better work, better shoes, even violin lessons—but they are still slaves. Their father has promised to set them all...
Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson’s children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father’s identity secret. They get special treatment—better work, better shoes, even violin lessons—but they are still slaves. Their father has promised to set them all...
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Die zehnjährige Ada hat die Ein-Zimmer-Wohnung noch nie verlassen. Ihre Mutter ist von Adas Klumpfuß so angewidert, dass sie das Kind wegsperrt. Als ihr kleiner Bruder Jamie aus London evakuiert wird, um der Bombardierung der Stadt durch die deutsche Luftwaffe zu entkommen, entscheidet Ada, dass sie mit ihm fortgehen wird. So beginnt ein großes Abenteuer für Ada wie auch für Susan Smith, die Frau, die gezwungen ist, die beiden Kinder auf dem...
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In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
13) Ballerino Nate
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After seeing a ballet performance, Nate decides he wants to learn ballet but he has doubts when his brother Ben tells him that only girls can be ballerinas.
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"Rosalind Franklin loved science, but when she was young, there weren't many woman scientists. Still, she persisted in pursuing her dreams, becoming a scientist and playing a key role in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA (what we're all made up of). Though her male colleagues took credit for her work at the time, we now know just how important her discoveries were to figuring out what our DNA looks like and how it works!" -- Amazon.com....
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A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901. Ethel is 10 years old in 1901 when her family's life changed forever. Suddenly, Father is not only a famous cowboy, war hero, and politician, but also President Theodore Roosevelt, leader of the United States, and Ethel has a new place to call home. The White House is older and stuffier than...