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African American agriculturists Poetry Agriculturists Poetry American poetry Biographical poetry Carver, George Washington 1864?-1943 Poetry Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Kraków Personal narratives Leyson, Leon 1929-2013 Narewka (Poland) Biography Schindler, Oskar 1908-1974 World War, 1939-1945 Jews RescueNelson, Marilyn
Summary: The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 811 NELNelson, Marilyn
Summary: "A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SAVNelson, Marilyn
Summary: A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Front Street 2001
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1 available in We the People bookshelf, Call number: J 811.54 NELNelson, Marilyn
Summary: "One of America's most honored writers--a Newbery Honor medalist, Coretta Scott King Medalist, and a three-time National Book Award finalist--draws upon history, and her astonishing imagination, to revive the long lost community of Seneca Village."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Namelos 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 NELNelson, Marilyn
Summary: George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 811.54 NELNelson, Marilyn
Summary: Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE FIC NELAuerbach, Lera
Summary: "This deeply imaginative and entertaining poetry collection details the pleasures of the orchestra, from strong-willed A to satisfied Z"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE AUESummary: Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATLeyson, Leon
Summary: Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was the youngest child in his family and possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Leyson 2013Leyson, Leon
Summary: Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was the youngest child in his family and possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013