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Finish the fight!: the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
Par Veronica Chambers, The Staff of The New York Times, The Staff The Staff of The New York Times. 2020
The Staff of The New York Times profiles the unsung heroines of the women's suffrage movement and includes women of…
different races and sexual orientations. Recounts their stories and trailblazing efforts that helped change the fabric of America. For grades 4-7. 2020
The burning: massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921
Par Tim Madigan. 2001
The author recounts the destruction suffered by the black community in Oklahoma during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and examines…
the difficulties of pinpointing its full extent. Explores the events leading up to the violence and documents the subsequent silence surrounding it. Violence and strong language. 2001
Blood and germs: the Civil War battle against wounds and disease (Medical Fiascoes)
Par Gail Jarrow. 2020
Explores the science and gruesome history of US Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers,…
doctors, and nurses. Jarrow reveals battlefield rescues, surgical techniques, treatments, and patient care, celebrating the men and women of both the North and South who volunteered to save lives. For grades 5-8. 2020
Vagina obscura: an anatomical voyage
Par Rachel E. Gross, Rachel E Gross. 2022
Examination of the historical and modern research into and care for female sexual anatomy. Topics are arranged around individual anatomical…
parts, including the glans clitoris, the internal clitoris, the vagina, vaginal microbiome, egg cells, ovaries, the uterus, and the neovagina. Addresses the impact of prejudicial views of female anatomy on the care of people with those anatomical parts. 2022
Places of protest (Travel to... (Rourke Educational Media))
Par Jen Breach. 2022
"Readers travel to places where people have used their power to demand change. By exploring locations in the U.S. and…
around the world, readers will use the page to stand in locations where people have put their lives and bodies on the line for a cause." -- Provided by publisher
A good day's work: an Iowa farm in the Great Depression
Par Dwight W Hoover, Dwight W. Hoover. 2007

Midnight assassin: a murder in America's heartland
Par Thomas Wolf, Patricia L. Bryan, Patricia L Bryan. 2005
In December 1900, a prosperous Iowa farmer was murdered in his bed--killed by two blows of an ax to his…
head. Four days later, the victim's wife, Margaret Hossack, was arrested and charged with the crime. The community was split by the trial which was covered by young journalist Susan Glaspell, later an acclaimed writer. Co-author is Thomas Wolf. Unrated. 2005
Sweet corn and sushi: the story of Iowa and Yamanashi
Par Lori Erickson, Will Thomson, Yasuo Ohdera, Shinji Yoda. 2004
In 1959 the prefecture of Yamanashi, Japan, was devastated by two typhoons. Richard Thomas, an Iowan who served in the…
U. S. military in Japan after World War II, helped organize an "Iowa Hog Lift" that sent 35 pigs to Yamanashi. That act led to America's first sister-state relationship with Japan. For kindergarten-grade 3. 2004. NOTE: the print edition included a translation of the story into Japanese. For grades K-3
Mount Rushmore: symbols of freedom (Symbols of freedom)
Par Lola M. Schaefer, Lola M Schaefer. 2002

The U.S. Capitol (Symbols of freedom)
Par Lola M. Schaefer, Lola M Schaefer. 2002
Where is the U.S. Capitol? What kind of money has a picture of the U.S. Capitol on it? How was…
the U.S. Capitol used during the Civil War? Find the answers to these questions and more when you read ?The U.S. Capitol?.
Dakota dreams: Fanny Sabra Howe's own story, 1881-1884
Par Janet Townsley, Janet Howe Townsley. 2003

The Washington Monument (Symbols of freedom)
Par Lola M. Schaefer, Lola M Schaefer. 2002
How tall is the Washington Monument? What is inside the Washington Monument? What are the memorial stones? Find the answers…
to these questions and more when you read ?The Washington Monument?.
Young Martin Luther King, Jr: "I have a dream" (Troll first-start biography)
Par Joanne Mattern, Allan Eitzen. 1992

Mammoths on the move
Par Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3
Women of the American Revolution
Par Sara McIntosh Wooten. 2007

West Coast journeys, 1865-1879: the travelogue of a remarkable woman
Par Caroline C Leighton, Caroline C. Leighton. 1995
A first-person account written by a gentlewoman traveling leisurely through post-Civil War America. In 1865, Caroline Leighton left New York…
for San Francisco and traveled throughout the Pacific Northwest with her husband for the next fourteen years. She describes such sights as the California missions, the Rocky Mountains, and Puget Sound, as well as her observations on other cultures, such as the Native Americans, the Chinese, and the Spanish
Bretz's flood: the remarkable story of a rebel geologist and the world's greatest flood
Par John Soennichsen, John Robert Soennichsen. 2008
At the end of the Ice Ages, repeated floods from Lake Missoula in Montana tore through North Idaho and Eastern…
Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific. The floods took much of the topsoil and left behind the channeled scablands and Grand Coulee. J. Harlen Breitz was the first geologist to realize what had happened. His reports were roundly criticized. It took aerial photography and field trips by his doubters to prove him right
Puget's Sound: a narrative of early Tacoma and the southern Sound (Columbia Northwest classics)
Par Murray Morgan, William L. Lang. 2003
A well-respected Pacific Northwest historian tells the story of Tacoma from the first time the city's site was seen by…
Europeans in 1792 to the creation of Fort Lewis in 1916. Lumberjacks and Chinese laborers, industrialists and speculators were among the people who built the city. Adult
The Statue of Liberty (Heinemann first library)
Par Tristan Boyer Binns. 2001

The Liberty Bell (Symbols of freedom)
Par Tristan Boyer Binns. 2001