Author: Jefferson Morley
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307477487
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and threatened his owner, respected socialite Anna Thornton. Despite no blood being shed, Bowen was eventually arrested and tried for attempted murder by district attorney Francis Scott Key, but not before news of the incident spread like wildfire. Within days Washington’s first race riot exploded as whites, fearing a slave rebellion, attacked the property of free blacks. One of their victims was gregarious former slave and successful restaurateur Beverly Snow, who became the target of the mob’s rage. With Snow-Storm in August, Jefferson Morley delivers readers into an unknown chapter in history with an absorbing account of this uniquely American battle for justice.
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1466887834
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter – cold and unkind. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means "family" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country. Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author: Francis Scott Key
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972676205
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A collection of 8 patriotic photos -- most of them include pre-school age children and the flag -- accompany the text of the Star Spangle Banner.
Author: Peter Marx
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500220372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Book Three of Land of the Free, Home of the Brave continues the saga of the DeVito family as they attempt to reconcile their Italian heritage with the opportunities and demands presented by the dominant American culture. Mary DeVito was born in America but found herself trying to live between two different worlds: the one belonging to her Italian-American parents, and the other belonging to the American culture of the thirties, forties and fifties. Throughout high school, Mary learns to meet the challenges placed upon her by the beginning of World War II. Later, she decides to go to college and to become a teacher. Unfortunately, she finds that prejudice and discrimination, fear and paranoia, all silently continue to coexist in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
Author: Eliot Clarke
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.
ISBN: 9780805960563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Land of the Free and Home of the Brave explains why the United States has created a society that is unique because it provides greater liberty and more freedom for more people to find self-fulfillment than any other nation in history. Eliot Channing Clarke establishes why when these rights have been threatened Americans have always united as one to defend them. Land of the Free and hOme of the Brave is essential reading for those who would like to understand how Americans became the people they are today.
Author: MR Gunter
Publisher: Children's Books on Life and Behavior
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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America Children's Book is a readable history book that honors the families, foundation, and heritage of America. Bring kids to rightly understand, value, and serve a nation for the glory of God. BOOK DESCRIPTION: (also book back cover) A readable children's history book told from a young boy's experience from his grandpa's military funeral and ends with the national anthem on July 4th. Discover his transformation from careless and impressionable by his peers to deeply valuing what generations have so greatly lost. Build your children's library with a children's book that honors the families, foundation, and heritage of America. Bring kids to rightly understand, value, and serve a nation for the glory of God. Let truth and examples train up fearless men and women, prepared for the future. May the next generation be raised to bravely serve others with their freedom. EBOOK: Free eBook with purchase of paperback or hardback in certain retailers. After purchase, come back to the eBook edition to download. DETAILS: 1. Pages: 44 2. Series number: 14 3. Series type: Children's Books on Life and Behavior 4. Series category: America 5. Series genre: Fiction 6. Children reading ages: Average age 8-12 years 7. Children reading grade level: Average 4th-6th grade 8. Children illustration ages: Average 2-12 years 9. Reading crowd: Children to adult 10. Reading length: Average 15-30 minutes (with dynamic expression and pauses) 11. Reading style: Illustrated narration. 12. Story tellers: Kids to Adults (parents, guardians, grandparents, teachers, pastors) 13. Historical setting: 17th-21st century 14. Purpose: Honor, respect, history, maturity, Christianity, Bible, bravery, freedom 15. Contextual Use: Family, home, school, church, neighborhoods, outreach, kid's club, plays, teaching 16. Story time suggestion: Nighttime, class time, vacation 17. Holiday/annual event: Memorial Day, Independence Day, July 4th, Veteran's Day
Author: Francis Scott Key
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National songs
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Allen Say
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054734595X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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In dreamlike sequences, a man symbolically confronts the trauma of his family’s incarceration in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. This infamous event is made emotionally clear through his meeting a group of children all with strange name tags pinned to their coats. The man feels the helplessness of the children. Finally, desperately he releases the name tags like birds into the air to find their way home with the hope for a time when Americans will be seen as one people—not judged, mistrusted, or segregated because of their individual heritage. Sixty years after thousands of Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned, the cogent prose and haunting paintings of renowned author and illustrator Allen Say remind readers of a dark chapter in America’s history.
Author: Yochi Dreazen
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385347855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic. Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark's career took them to bases around the world. When Kevin and Jeff die within nine months of each other—Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq—Mark and Carol are astonished by the drastically different responses their sons’ deaths receive from the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero, Kevin’s death is met with silence, evidence of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different battles, Mark and Carol commit themselves to transforming the institution that is the cornerstone of their lives. The Invisible Front is the story of how one family tries to set aside their grief and find purpose in almost unimaginable loss. The Grahams work to change how the Army treats those with PTSD and to erase the stigma that prevents suicidal troops from getting the help they need before making the darkest of choices. Their fight offers a window into the military’s institutional shortcomings and its resistance to change – failures that have allowed more than 3,000 troops to take their own lives since 2001. Yochi Dreazen, an award-winning journalist who has covered the military since 2003, has been granted remarkable access to the Graham family and tells their story in the full context of two of America’s longest wars. Dreazen places Mark and Carol’s personal journey, which begins when they fall in love in college and continues through the end of Mark's thirty-four year career in the Army, against the backdrop of the military’s ongoing suicide spike, which shows no signs of slowing. With great sympathy and profound insight, The Invisible Front details America's problematic treatment of the troops who return from war far different than when they'd left and uses the Graham family’s work as a new way of understanding the human cost of war and its lingering effects off the battlefield.
Author: James W. Muller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courage
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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