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Freedman, Russell.Freedman, 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 Stacks, Call number: JB CRAZYHORS 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: 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: 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: 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.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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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: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN FREFreedman, Russell.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRAFreedman, 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: 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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 FREFreedman, Russell.
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: 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: "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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.3 FRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 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.
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
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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1985