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Time and Again

Jack Finney

Illustrator Si Morley steps out of his twentieth-century New York apartment one night--right into the winter of 1882.

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A Summer of Kings

Han Nolan

Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to li

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Monkey Town

Ronald Kidd

When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-y

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Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak, the engineer who developed the first true personal computer, and went on to co-found the Apple Computer company, shares the story of his life, discussing not only his accomplishments as

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Inside Delta Force

Eric L. Haney

Eric Haney, one of the founding members of Delta Force, provides an inside look at the elite counterterrorist unit, explaining the process by which men are selected for the unit, and telling of his pe

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Hiroshima

John Hersey

An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it.

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Freedom Walkers

Russell Freedman

Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott and the key persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.

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Eva Underground

Dandi Daley Mackall

In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.

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The Endless Steppe

Esther Rudomin Hautzig

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia.

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Desert Exile

Yoshiko Uchida

The author tells the story of her Japanese-American family's imprisonment in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.

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