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bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. History. Nonfiction. Young adult literature.Hoose, Phillip
Summary: Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973 HOOHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: Chronicles a year in the life of rufa red knot B95, also called Moonbird, following him through his migration pattern and discussing the environmental problems that caused the rufa population to collapsed by nearly eighty percent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 HOOHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten black teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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Summary: "The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: A song in which an ant pleads with the kid who is tempted to squish it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOOHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melanie Kroupa Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB COLVIN HOOEaton, Gale
Summary: Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and houses keep us warm; agriculture feeds us; medicine fights our diseases. It all works—most of the time. But key resources lie in the most hazardous places, so we choose to live on river flood plains, on the slopes of volcanoes, at the edge of the sea, above seismic faults. We pack ourselves into cities, Petri dishes for germs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2019