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Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Shea, Therese
Summary: American landmarks sometimes evoke more than their original intent. For example, the Statue of Liberty was a gift symbolizing the friendship between France and the United States, but it became a welcoming monument to millions of immigrants heading to Ellis Island. This beautifully designed book offers numerous intriguing facts about American landmarks, including the Washington Monument, Statue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SHEBelot, Robert
Summary: Timed to publish with the opening of the Statue of Liberty Museum, this is Lady Liberty's untold story of her building, restoration, and iconic place in the world as brought to life through the fascinating lens of archival images, ephemera from the museum's collection, and today's most compelling photography--restored and resplendent against the New York City skyline.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 BELSummary: "For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and a refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and provocative portrait of the statue, Ken Burns explores both the history of America's premier symbol and the meaning of liberty itself. Featuring rare archival photographs, paintings and drawings, readings from actual diaries, letters and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Schuh, Mari C.
Summary: "Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces the Statue of Liberty to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SCHBlanchet, Christian.
Summary: A history of the statue including its origins and the people who brought it to completion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.71 BLAKent, Deborah.
Summary: Examines the history of the famous statue, including its origin as a gift from France and its construction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 KENObomsawin, Robbin
Summary: "The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York are world famous for their camps built from the land, surrounded by some of the most inspiring, untamed and stunning landscape in the world. This rugged terrain gave birth to its own form of distinctive architecture that has stood the test of time and remains a classic. Although the original great camps of the 1900s were so talked about because of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.097 OBODeady, Kathleen W.
Summary: This book discusses the history of the Statue of Liberty, describing the statue's construction, its location, and its importance to the people of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.7 DEARajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 624 RAJShapiro, Mary J.
Summary: Panoramas, cross sections, and diagrams provide a detailed portrayal of the construction of the Statue of Liberty, one of the nineteenth century's greatest engineering feats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.71 SHASmilios, Maria
Summary: "During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.72 SMIFriddell, Claudia.
Summary: When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's head in Paris, he shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's dream of seeing France's gift of friendship stand in the New York harbor. Pulitzer loved words, and the word he loved best was liberty. Frustrated that many, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue's needed pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PULHolub, Joan.
Summary: Describes the history of the Statue of Liberty, including its origins as a gift from France and its construction, and explores the landmark's enduring symbolism of freedom, democracy, and friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HolubBauer, Marion Dane.
Summary: An introduction to the Statue of Liberty explains how it was built, what it is made of, and the symbolism behind it, and provides interesting facts pertaining to this wonder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JBR GREEN BAUERStiefel, Chana
Summary: "The true story of how schoolchildren helped fund the construction of the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York City."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 STILandau, Elaine.
Summary: Briefly tells the story of the Statue of Liberty, from when the idea was born, how the statue was built, and information about the creator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.71 LANManzano, Sonia
Summary: A coming-of-age memoir by the actress and writer offers a look into the daily lives of a loving, but troubled, Latino family and a girl kept afloat amid the turbulence of her life and times by the dream of becoming an actress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MANZANO, SONIA MANMann, Elizabeth
Summary: The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.71 MANSummary: Between 1961-1973, musicians in the Village banded together to sing about the radical social upheaval of the time, sparking everlasting political, social, and cultural changes. For the first time, the greatest singer-songwriters, authors, and performers from Greenwich Village reflect on how they collectively became the voice of a generation. Through poignant interviews, rare archival footage,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREGlaser, Linda.
Summary: The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROSummary: In 2020 the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its 150th anniversary. This three-part program looks at the uncertainty the Met faced at this time as it faced an indefinite closure due to COVID-19 and calls for social justice following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSBergen, Teunis G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Polyanthos 1973