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Balis, Andrea

Summary: "A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.9 BAL

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: "In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEW

Raum, Elizabeth.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of spies on both the British and American sides"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016

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Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: "Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Written by award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome, here is her story"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHI

Berkowitz, Leah Rachel

Summary: "A boy and his mom move to the city shortly before Sukkot and need to figure out where to build a sukkah and how to make new holiday traditions in an unfamiliar place"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BER

Smith, Sherri L.

Summary: "A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 629.13 SMI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 SMI

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