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Summary: A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J979.4 FREFreedman, Russell
Summary: Describes the building of the mighty Swedish warship the Vasa, how it sank not even a mile out of the harbor, the subsequent investigation, and how it was brought to the surface and restored more than three hundred years later.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 948.5 FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J948.5 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CRAZYHORS FREFreedman, Russell
Summary: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FREFreedman, Russell
Summary: An account of the Vietnam War describes how it began, why it was so difficult to end, and how its tragic legacy endures today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Recounts the colonists' stand to control their own destinies, detailing the protest meetings at Old South Church, the defiant act of dumping the tea into the harbor, and the reaction from the British.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3115 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1987
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Summary: "Examines World War I, the first global war in which modern weapons inflicted mass slaughter and an estimated 20 million people were killed."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But when the harsh winter ended, the soldiers had survived, and marched away from Valley Forge more determined than ever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3341 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1988
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Summary: Describes, in text and illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1985
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Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1997
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Summary: A physical description of sharks and a discussion of their methods of hunting, details of birth, and their usefulness to humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1985
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Summary: Examines the role of the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution, discussing how the nineteen-year-old defied the king of France to join the fight for liberty in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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Summary: Recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of the race relations and politics of the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Summary: Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.313 FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.3 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.7 FREFreedman, Russell.
Summary: In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who had been applauded by European royalty and welcomed at the White House. But, because of her race, she was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. This is the story of her resulting involvement in the civil rights movement of the time. "A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 ANDFreedman, Russell.
Contents: Murder in Sarajevo -- Armed to the teeth -- To Berlin! To Paris! -- "The most terrible August in the history of the world" -- Stalemate -- The technology of death and destruction -- Life and death in the trenches -- Over the top -- The Battle of Verdun -- The Battle of the Somme -- The war at sea -- Mutiny, revolution, and the collapse of armies -- "Lafayette, we are here!" America joins the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010