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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIREggers, Dave
Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018Ernst, Kathleen
Summary: During the War of 1812, Caroline finds evidence that someone is smuggling precious supplies to the British and fears that the traitor may be her own uncle. Includes an "Inside Caroline's World" essay about smuggling during the War of 1812.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNErnst, Kathleen
Summary: A modern-day girl finds herself on the shore of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and as she and and Caroline Abbott experience life in this turbulent time, the reader is invited to choose how the twosome might help the Americans beat the British.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: In 1813, nine-year-old Caroline, a fast runner, helps the residents of Saint Michaels, Maryland, as they defend their town against the British.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCCErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNMinahan, John A.
Summary: During the War of 1812, when British soldiers threaten the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, young Rebecca Bates and her sister Abigail, daughters of the local lighthouse keeper, find a way to save both him and the town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pippin Press 1995
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MINWiley, Melissa.
Summary: An abridged version of the story of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as she feels the effects of the War of 1812 while living with her family near Boston.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILMilford, Kate
Summary: "A quest story to find the three pieces of a magical engine which can either win the War of 1812...or stop it altogether"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILHale, Nathan
Summary: "The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2023
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Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMErnst, Kathleen
Summary: Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNTarshis, Lauren
Summary: "It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet--and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Double Edge Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPURoberts, Kenneth Lewis
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 1997
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Summary: "Pearl Harbor features real stories of that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American Girl Nanea Mitchell shares her own experiences adjusting to the drastic changes to everyday life in Hawaii following the attack"--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SWABurling, Alexis
Summary: Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 BURPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: When two brothers visit a museum in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, with their grandmother, they find themselves in a very realistic Civil War setting where they see the Antietam battlefield and meet historical figures from the aftermath of that momentous battle. Includes author's note on the Battle of Antietam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2011Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHEErnst, Kathleen
Summary: Caroline and her mother make a dangerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNCalkhoven, Laurie
Summary: On a three-day stagecoach ride to the big city of Albany during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Caroline is fascinated by the other travelers, including a charming magician and a beautiful young woman with a sad past, and when Caroline's important package for her father disappears, she must unmask a thief.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022