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Historical Suggestions
How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
Set in Spain, Estrella tells how she uncovered who she and her family truly were: Jews hiding as Christians in Spain in the 1500s. More powerful than religion, Estrella finds that her friendships have been fractured by secrecy, but that ...
This accessible nonfiction story of the Freedom Marches beginning in 1963 was amazing with the stark black and white photographs of important figures in the marches, personal stories, and a basic timeline of events. The heavy-hitters lik...
A beautifully weaved story of the Civil Rights movement. Sticks and Sam are brothers living in a household of nonviolence. Their father is a well-respected lawyer who marches and dines with Martin Luther King Jr. while Sticks is planning...
Is there an option for ten stars? Is there a better rating than "it was amazing"? Something like, it would not be humanly possible to write a better book. Seriously, the beauty of the story and the language made me think Septys was a sea...
I am at a loss to describe the beauty and information in this book. I'm at a loss why it was only a finalist for the Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction as opposed to the winner! Or, maybe it's just because the way the information was p...
Alex Krutov grew up a war of the Soviet Union after his mother, at eighteen, signed away her parental rights after leaving him in a dumpster. Thus begins a tragic life of trying to grow up before finding hope, joy, and religion with miss...
Jorja explains what her adult life has been like since leaving academia in pursuit of more authentic voices of gang culture and violence. After being in Bosnia doing crisis intervention, she taught at UCLA, did gang studies, then married...
For whatever reason, I am making a comparison to O'Brien's Things and Joan Bauer's chicklit YA novels, why? Because I get a warm feeling when reading it because of the one-liners or reflections that are important to remember in life, yet...
A snapshot of the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon which is almost too short! It profiles certain people in the journey of over 400,000 people who helped in some way to get the men there (Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armst...
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