Bausum, Ann

Summary: How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.09 Bau

Bausum, Ann

Summary: Documents the heroic wartime achievements of a World War I mascot who was adopted by a soldier as an orphaned pup and who gained military honors and a display in the Smithsonian Institution for his brave service behind enemy lines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 BAU

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, Penguin Group 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362 BAU

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "The unlikely true story of why we know the name William Shakespeare today, and the four-hundred-year-old book that made it possible. Four hundred years ago, no one bothered to write down the exact words of stage plays. Characters' lines were scribbled on small rolls of paper (as in, an actor's role) and passed around, but no master script was saved for the future. The main reason we've heard...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Bausum, Ann

Summary: Explores the March Against Fear, a protest started by James Meredith and taken up by other civil rights leaders after Meredith was shot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 BAU

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.086 BAU

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "Revised and updated to include the winner of the 2020 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely reference. Key features include: Information about the 2021 president-elect and the 2020 election results, a brand-new thematic spread on the impeachment process and its history, revised terminology around the language of slavery and analysis of early presidents who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 BAU