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Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe

Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOM

Huahn, Traci

Summary: Based on the life of Chinese American student Mamie Tape and her fight to attend the all-white Spring Valley Primary School in her San Francisco neighborhood including her family's successful 1885 lawsuit before the California Supreme Court, one step in the long journey towards equality in education. Includes author's note with biographical and historical information.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUA

Chee, Traci

Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHE

Sem-Sandberg, Steve

Summary: "The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEM

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