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Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993 Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993 Juvenile literature Climatic changes Labor leaders Labor leaders United States Biography Juvenile literature Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers Migrant agricultural laborers Labor unions United Farm Workers History Juvenile literature United Farm Workers. United StatesBlas, Terry
Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHABrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROGrange, Emma
Summary: "Meet some very special Marvel Super Heroes. Captain Marvel is brave. Moon Girl has big dreams. Hawkeye likes new challenges, and Black Panther protects people. Super Heroes come from different worlds, but what unites them all is fighting for good. Find out what it takes to be a hero!" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing, a Division of Penguin Random House 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Rau, Dana Meachen
Summary: Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET CHAVEZO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5318 OREKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, inc. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHASummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHEZannos, Susan.
Summary: A biography of the Mexican American who spent most of his life working to organize the migrant farm workers in California and was instrumental in the founding of the United Farm Workers union.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Lane Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CHAVEZ ZANYoussef, Jagger
Summary: "The life story of Cesar Chavez, one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century resonates today. In this significant biography, readers will learn about the man who rose from migrant field worker to become a champion of the voiceless. The narrative interweaves Chavez's own powerful words throughout biographical text. Historic photographs bring the fascinating figure to life,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHASmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMICussler, Dirk
Summary: "In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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2 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSSummary: Charlie tries to catch a killer in "The secret service"; "The Chinese cat" has Charlie trailing diamond thieves; and "The jade mask" has Charlie at odds with the family of a murdered scientist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by TGG Direct 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Lee, Stephan
Summary: "In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEESummary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COCSummary: Learn the signs for shoe, sock, hat, coat, please, thank you, sorry, car, train, bus, bike, airplane, boat, ball, doll, bear, wash hands, soap, sleep, bath, brush teeth, book, pajamas, blanket. Uses singing, dancing, speaking, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are wondering if there are solutions beyond reducing emissions. Enter geoengineering. From sucking carbon straight out of the air to physically blocking out sunlight, the options may seem far-fetched. Can geoengineering really work? How much would it cost? And what are the risks of engineering Earth's climate?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CANHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this graphic version of the classic fairy tale, zombie children Hansel and Gretel disguise themselves as tourists and venture into the Magical Forest in search of brains to eat--where they encounter Mrs. Witch, who has her own plans for dinner.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HARVaillant, John
Summary: Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Proctor, Noble S.
Summary: Discusses how, why, and when birds choose to sing, offers advice on recognizing the song of individual birds, and presents specific information on one hundred songbirds commonly found in the countryside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1988
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.2 PROSmith, Jay M.
Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMIBeanland, Rachel
Summary: Richmond, Virginia, 1811. It's the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to...
Format: text
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction BeanlandSummary: Building an airplane: A jet airplane is one of the fastest machines on the planet. But have you ever seen one being made? It all goes together like a jigsaw puzzle! Once it's assembled, a test pilot takes the jet out for a flight. Will it pass the test? Soon the jet is ready to get to work flying people all over the world; Ride the mountain rails!: Work train is busy keeping the tracks in good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIGPotenza, Alessandra
Summary: "This book shows readers the awesome power of wildfires"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022