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382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
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123 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches--and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration--and the complexity of documenting it--through the work of these three photographers."--
Series
Lumberjanes graphic novel volume 17
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jen and Rosie plan to take the Lumberjane scouts to see an amazing astronomical event. But their night of star-gazing is thrown off course when half of the Roanoke and Zodiac cabins sneak away into the night in search of aliens, leaving everyone else to deal with a gatecrashing goddess who throws the entire camp into a tizzy. Not to mention there's a nefarious kitten-napping and a super-secret crush to contend with!"
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Lumberjanes volume 13
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Séptima entrega de una serie demoledoramente divertida que prima la amistad por encima de todo y donde las risas están aseguradas en cada viñeta. Es bien sabido que los misteriosos bosques que rodean el Campamento Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet para Chicas Hardcore son siempre el punto de partida en el universo mágico de las Leñadoras. O eso creíamos, hasta que tuvieron que quedarse confinadas varios días debido a unas...
Physical Desc
144 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jo, Mal, Molly, April, Ripley and the scouts of Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types are running out of time to fight back against the mysterious force known as the Grey! And even if they succeed, they will have to deal with their biggest challenge yet -- saying goodbye as summer finally comes to an end." --
348) Dash
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English
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When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
349) Feet
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22 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brief rhyming text describes children at camp who use their feet to do a variety of things, from kicking a soccer ball to rollerblading.
Series
Lumberjanes volume 3
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqual Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types, being yourself has a long tradition of being celebrated, and no one knows that better than Ripley, who has spent a summer going where the wind takes her. But sometimes going against the grain is starting to feel like she's going against her friends, and Ripley's not sure if being unique is all it's cracked up to be. So when she meets a Zebracorn with the ability...
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189 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This girl-powered book about puberty is written in the voice of counselors in training at the fictional Camp Silver Moon. This fictionalized nonfiction diary-style guide follows nine 12-year-old girls at a summer camp is like having a best friend or older sister who shares everything there is to know about being comfortable in your chaning body so you can survive and thrive through puberty.
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Lumberjanes volume 16
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"DINOS, DANGER & DIMENSION-HOPPING! Mal wants to learn to be braver, but when she recruits Ripley to help her face her fears, she ends up somewhere she really should be afraid of--the Land of Lost Things, a pocket universe where dinosaurs still roam the earth, and time doesn't work the way it should. Stranded on her own in an alternate dimension, will Mal be able to find her way back home to camp? And back on the other side of the portal, will Molly,...
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English
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"This is the story of Kiyo Sato and her family and their experience in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps during WWII."--
1941. Kiyo Sato, her eight younger siblings and their parents on a small farm near Sacramento, California, where they grew strawberries, nuts, and other crops. The Satos were an ordinary American family -- until they weren't. The day Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, US president Franklin Roosevelt declared...
357) The Jersey brothers: a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
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xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
"They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the...
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103 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps of Europe: antisemitic terror spread through Vichy French imperial channels to France's colonies in North Africa,...
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Lumberjanes volume 14
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"X MARKS THE SPOT ... FOR TROUBLE! Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! What they end up finding is scattered pieces of an ancient Greek statue of a woman, who, when assembled, comes back to life as a vindictive ex-goddess!...
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xvi, 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison -- to freedom in South Korea.
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