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This history of Europe from the 2nd through the 9th centuries brings to life migrating Vandals, Goths, Huns, Vikings, Moslems,…
Mongols, Angles and Saxons, along with figures such as Genghis Khan, Alfred the Great, Mohammed and Attila the Hun. For junior and senior high readers. c1986.
Chronicles the disaster that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed for five years straight. Describes the heartbreaking plight…
of the peasants, who depended on potatoes for all their meals. A million died of starvation, and many more were forced to emigrate to America. Grades 5-8. Winner of Robert F. Sibert Award. 2001.
Inspired by a desire to learn about her grandfather's childhood in an English orphanage, the author researched the London Foundling…
Hospital. Founded in 1739, the institution took in babies whose desperate mothers might otherwise have abandoned them, and trained them to be useful citizens. With benefactors like the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, the facility cared for approximately 27,000 children for over 200 years. Grades 5-8. 2005.
The author was a young child when the massacre of September 26, 1941, left almost no survivors in her home…
of Eishyshok--one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Europe. Her recreation of the shtetl's history describes community life, which centred around the homes, schools, and synagogues. 1998.
An account of how young people in England lived and were trained for adulthood in the 1270's. Describes the everyday…
lives of children from different social classes. For junior and senior high readers. 1962.
Tracing the history of England from Boadicea to the present through verse, this anthology contains work by many of the…
greatest English poets and is divided into historical periods. Each section includes background information on the period and a running narrative to set the poetry in context. For junior and senior high students.
Recounts the events that led Jordana Lebowitz, a young Canadian college student, to travel to Germany to attend the war…
criminal trial of Oskar Groening in 2015. Lebowitz was accompanied by three Holocaust survivors who planned to testify. For senior high and older readers. 2017
Recounts the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who started a church in Germany that opposed Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.…
Describes Bonhoeffer's alliance with conspirators who sought to kill Hitler, his imprisonment, and his execution just weeks before Germany's surrender. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018
An account of the Cold War spies and their carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help…
avert global nuclear war. Includes a Cold War glossary and a glossary of key espionage techniques. For senior high and older readers. 2019
Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil…
War and documented the fight against fascism. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2017
Recounts the discovery of artificial radiation by Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie in 1934. Their groundbreaking advancement in physics led physicist…
Lise Meitner to unlock the secrets of fission. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2016
Recounts the true story of Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. Once members of the Hitler Youth, the siblings questioned…
Hitler's regime and became members of White Rose, a leaflet campaign of active resistance to the Nazis. Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2016
Collection of Greek myths, introducing the most prominent beings in the ancient Greek pantheon. Includes tales of the king of…
gods, Zeus; the god of the underworld, Hades; and the goddess of wisdom, Athena. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2011
Examines the French Revolution and discusses the events leading up to it; the impact of major uprisings, participants, and actions;…
and its lasting effect on France and around the world. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2016
Collection of Norse myths, describing the gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters of ancient Scandinavia. Includes tales of the thunder god…
Thor, the one-eyed god and Allfather Odin, and the trickster god Loki. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2015
Recounts the actions of young resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi occupation during WWII. Led by fourteen-year-old Knud Pedersen,…
the group named the Churchill Club committed acts of sabotage that led to their imprisonment and sparked a national resistance movement. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2015
Recounts the events following the Nazi occupation of Denmark on April 9, 1940, which led to the Danish resistance and…
the rescue of more than seven thousand Jews during WWII. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2015
Ferreiro recounts the story of the Geodesic Mission to the Equator. A team of Enlightenment-era scientists and naval officers set…
out on an expedition to measure the Earth, using precise astronomical measurements along the equator. 2011