Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel)
Summary: From an early age, Maria Montessori challenged the norm, studying science at an all-boys school. As an adult, she became the first female doctor in her country, specializing in the care of children. She went on to make important discoveries that completely changed the course of traditional education, setting up Montessori schools around the world. This inspiring story of the revolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MONGandhi, Arun.
Summary: "At Grandfather Gandhi’s service village, each day is filled, from sunrise to sunset, with work that is done for the good of all. The villagers vow to live simply and non-violently. Arun Gandhi tries very hard to follow these vows, but he struggles with one of the most important rules: not to waste." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANLandis, Paul
Summary: "Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 LANLand, Stephanie
Summary: Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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Summary: This book introduces the youngest readers to Harriet Tubman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUBMara, Wil.
Summary: When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the fir st African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBRockliff, Mara
Summary: "A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is one of the most extraordinary human beings to have ever lived. One of Americas greatest statesman, Franklin was also a scientist, an inventor, and a printera man who always worked to make life better for his fellow citizens. The well-organized chapters help students identify key details while the photographs, timelines and other text features encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: Introduces the children to Rosa Parks who is a true American hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARMara, Wil.
Summary: This book is a brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War, and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINWilson, Mara
Summary: ""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight."--Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together." --Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy A former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILSON WILHinojosa, Maria
Summary: "María Hinojosa es una periodista galardonada que ha colaborado con las cadenas más respetadas y se ha distinguido por realizar reportajes con un toque humano. En estas memorias escritas con gran belleza, nos relata la historia de la política de inmigración de los EE.UU. que nos ha llevado al punto en que estamos hoy, al mismo tiempo que nos comparte su historia profundamente personal. Durante...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2020
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Summary: Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood from two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.734 GRECarmon, Irin
Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CarSkeers, Linda
Summary: Profiles fifty-two women in history who who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017