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A vivid historical fiction account of the community activism behind San Diego's Chicano Park—home to the largest outdoor mural collection in the U.S.—and just one example of the Mexican American community’s rich history of resistance and resilience. Barrio Logan, one of San Diego’s...

The McNaughton family is living during the influenza pandemic of 1918. The family sees how the disease affects other families in their neighborhoods and community until their own family begins to fall ill. As each family member comes down with the flu, they all must take care of one another and fight to stay alive. One child, Anna, takes comfort in her father’s arms one night after she takes a turn for the worse.

Helen and her father are collecting the rent from their family's rental properties so they will have money for the month. As Helen and her father visit each apartment, she learns how the Depression is affecting other families. When the pair meets the Katz family, Helen learns how generosity and kindness is always the right choice at the end of the day.

Christy Dooley is on a famine ship headed to America from Ireland. Just before the St. John reaches Massachusetts, though, it wrecks. He wants to make sure his mother knows what happened to him, so he puts a message and his St. Christopher medal in a bottle and tosses it overboard.

Despite the Great Depression leaving many students poverty-stricken, Delores’s elementary school class participates in a Secret Santa gift exchange at Christmastime. She is disappointed to find out the poorest girl in class drew her name and learns a lesson in humility when the day of the exchange finally comes.

In this story, Resolved White remembers his mother Susanna White, one of the first European “founding mothers” to sail from England to America in 1620. Resolved remembers their journey to America and the new community that they built in Plymouth.

Ju-Lin is a young Chinese girl living in poverty with her family. When her family must sell her to make ends meet, a traditional Chinese matchmaker buys her to serve as her apprentice. In a time when customs like foot-binding and keeping girls uneducated are prevalent, what will Ju-Lin’s future hold?

Sue Ann Hutchins misses her brother Ben, who has left to fight in the Civil War. Ben always kept Sue Ann's spirits up whenever she felt down about an accident that left her blind in one eye. When a chance encounter with General Robert E. Lee arises, Sue Ann asks the General if he can help locate her beloved brother.

During the War of 1812, Rebecca’s father leaves her and her sister to watch their family’s lighthouse while he’s in town. As luck would have it, a ship full of British Redcoats drops anchor nearby and threatens to raid their town! All Rebecca has at her disposal are a fife, a drum, and her cleverness. How can she use them to protect her home?

In December 1955, Shirley, a fictional 9-year-old black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, might have written these letters to her cousin Elizabeth in Detroit, Michigan.

Hyun Mi travels with her family to witness a miracle of nature—a land pass between islands!

In 1889, a wealthy Jane Addams saw people in her hometown who did not live as comfortably as she did and opened a settlement house to help them.

Mill girl Harriet Jane Hanson worked in the booming textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s.

In this fifth and final book in The Girls Who Changed the World series, Ming Qong discovers who she is, and that she, too, will change the world. Ming has travelled through history to meet girls who have changed the world. However, this time is different as Herstory, History's sister, promises...

Den originale historie om Tudemarie og hendes liv som barn i en fattig familie i 1880ernes København. Tudemarie kommer altid galt afsted og laerer tidligt at hjaelpe til. Hun og hendes mange søskende må hente gammelt brød hos bageren og spise levninger fra de riges bord og de kommer tidligt ud at tjene. De vokser op med hårdt arbejde, lange arbejdsdage og store sociale uretfaerdigheder.

Som nykonfirmeret ung pige er Marie nødt til at forlade sin fattige familie, så hun kan tjene i et andet hus. Men det er ikke lige let at falde til i en ny familie for den følsomme pige, som altid blot er blevet Tudemarie, fordi hun har så let til tårer. Efter at have vaeret hos adskillige familier, kommer Marie til sidst til den noget anderledes familien Tønnesen. Her passer hun tilsyneladende godt ind, men det er kun til familien pludselig bliver ramt af ulykke Bogen er skrevet i tidens sprog og ud fra datidens retskrivning.

10-årige Gajus vågner en morgen i sit hjem i Pompeji og opdager, at hans mor og far er gået fra hinanden. Hans mor er flyttet sammen med en anden mand, men Gajus beslutter sig for at finde hende. På vejen møder han slavedrengen Kalos, der er stukket af fra sine ejere, og de to slår følge. De møder også pigen Diana, der er slave i en rig familie og glad for sin opgave med at passe på den nyfødte Julia.

Copo de Algodón, hija de la princesa de Tacuba y del señor de Tenochtitlan, y esposa del señor de Iztapalapa, nació en la era del Quinto Sol, en una ciudad que un pueblo fiero y guerrero levantó en una laguna de reflejos color turquesa. Creía en Tláloc y Huitzilopochtli, y amaba las flores y los cantos. Un día su mundo se agitó, como las aguas al lanzar una piedra....

Ein neues Abenteuer für Lukios, den kleinen Römer! Wir befinden uns im Jahr 175 n. Chr., teils in Rom, teils in Pergamon, und werden Zeugen eines aufregenden Abenteuers. Der junge Lukios, kurz für Lucius Ceionius Commodus, ist der Neffe des um wenige Jahre älteren Lucius Aurelius Commodus, der eines Tages Kaiser werden soll. Neffe und Onkel haben aber nicht nur fast den gleichen Namen, sie sehen auch gleich aus! Ständig wird Lukios für Commodus gehalten und letztendlich sogar an seiner Stelle von Löwenfängern entführt. Wird Lukios entkommen können?

Demetrio è stato incarcerato con la gravissima accusa di far parte di una congiura contro l'Imperatore Nerone, ma per proteggere la sua amica Clelia ha deciso di rinunciare alla propria difesa. La ragazza, infatti, nasconde un segreto che mette in pericolo non solo la sua vita, ma anche quella di molte altre persone.