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"[Narrator Ilyana Kadushin] presents a perfectly paced narration and crafts just the right tones for the emotions this serious and inspiring memoir requires." — Booklist A Junior Library Guild selection Claiming My Place is the true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by...

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain.

Las inmortales aventuras de un nino. Los navegantes de los rios del sur de Estados Unidos gritaban Mark Twain para indicar que habia suficiente profundidad para que sus barcos no encallaran y Mark Twain fue el seudonimo escogido por Samuel Langhorne Clemens para sus cuentos y novelas que retratan con un humor unico la vida rural de fines del siglo XIX.

Through the alternating voices of 12-year-old Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinarily rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492, just as their paradise is about to be discovered and a new world order begins to take shape.

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war...

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers".

A tale of borders and beliefs shaped by the games people play 1947 New Delhi. Cyril Radcliffe's hands are clammy, partly from the heat but mostly from the enormity of the task assigned. Mopping the sweat off his brow, he picks up his pen, draws a deep breath--and a dark line. Rawalpindi. A...

Under anden verdenskrig kommer der masser af tyske soldater til Danmark. Lise på 16 bliver forelsket i den tyske soldat Gerd, og det får store konsekvenser for hende. Under besættelsen ser folk skævt til hende, og da krigen er slut, bliver hun stemplet som tyskertøs. Pludselig kan hun ikke blive i sin hjemby længere. Jens Aage Poulsen (f. 1953) er en dansk forfatter og lærer. Han har skrevet en lang række børne- og ungdomsbøger, hvoraf nogle foregår i nutiden, og andre fortæller om unges liv i 1800-tallet og under anden verdenskrig.

"Alkymisternes gade" er fjerde bind i den spændende serie om besætningen om bord på handelskompagniet Funk og Sønners største skib, Prinsesse Anne. Året er 1755. Det vældige skib, Prinsesse Anne, sejler mod Rouen for at bringe en guldlast til det krigshærgede og fattige Frankrig. Men to embedsmænd ser deres snit til selv at tjene penge på lasten, og de går i gang med en hemmelig mission for at forfalske guldet. \"Prinsesse Anne\" er både titlen på Ole E. Christiansens spændende børnebogsserie og navnet på det skib, der er centrum for historierne.

"Piraternes ø" er femte og sidste bind i den spændende serie om besætningen om bord på handelskompagniet Funk og Sønners største skib, Prinsesse Anne. Styrmand Bjørn fra Prinsesse Anne er kommet ud, hvor han ikke kan bunde. Han er den eneste mand blandt Piratøens kvinder, og det vækker franskmændenes mistænksomhed. Bjørn må nu bluffe sig væk og ender under tilfældige omstændigheder hos en flok engelske spioner. "Prinsesse Anne" er både titlen på Ole E. Christiansens spændende børnebogsserie og navnet på det skib, der er centrum for historierne.

En Lugares asombrosos. Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer el mundo podrás viajar -con Luisito como compañero y guía- a los lugares más recónditos de uno, dos y más continentes: a sitios abandonados que conservan la huella de un hecho inexplicable; espacios delineados por trazos y personajes místicos; habitáculos hechizados por almas que vagan entre dimensiones desconocidas; zonas marcadas por los errores de la historia y sus fantasmas, y pintorescas comisuras del orbe con el sello de una costumbre o un suceso perturbador.

Vivimos un momento en el que vemos por doquier muestras de rechazo a los migrantes, acciones duras para controlarlos, planes de construir muros cada vez más altos cuando desde siempre, desde que en algún lugar de África nuestra especie se puso sobre dos pies, hemos estado en movimiento. La migración de los seres humanos es tan antigua como nosotros mismos. Este libro incluye 51 historias de personas extraordinarias que cambiaron el mundo desde un país que no era el suyo. Y a pesar de las dificultades, todos ellos son un orgullo para los países donde encontraron la oportunidad de realizar sus sueños.

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Sophie Scholl. Der Historiker und Radiojournalist Hermann Vinke zeichnet das zutiefst anrührende Bild einer jungen Frau, die lieber starb, als sich dem NS-Regime unterzuordnen. Sophie Scholl, geboren im Mai 1921, wurde am 22.02.1943 mit dem Fallbeil hingerichtet. Sie war Mitglied der Widerstandsgruppe "Die weiße Rose".

April, 1945. Alle spüren, dass der Krieg und die fürchterliche Ideologie der Nationalsozialisten kurz vor dem Ende stehen. Doch in der Nacht vom 28. auf den 29. April 1945, zwei Tage vor Hitlers Selbstmord, ereignet sich das dunkelste Kapitel der damals noch jungen Stadt Penzberg in Bayern. Denn während der einst von den Nazis abgesetzte Bürgermeister zurück ins Rathaus zieht, erlässt die Wehrmacht den Befehl, alle Widerständler sofort hinzurichten. Und zwischen allen Fronten stehen die Jugendlichen Marie, Schorsch und Gustl.

An essential read for young adults seeking to understand a pivotal chapter in American LGBTQ history. “Enlightening, inspiring, and moving.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Bausum writes with the precision of a journalist . . . her observations and her conclusions about the persecution...

In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world. When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour...

An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament and world peace. It's 1986, and Jeff is an average fifteen-year-old: he thinks a lot...

From the author of Suitors and Sabotage comes a swoonworthy Christmas adventure, perfect for fans of Jane Austen and Downton Abbey. 1817. The happy chaos of the Yuletide season has descended upon the country estate of Shackleford Park in full force, but lady's maid Kate Darby barely has the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A critically acclaimed, multi-layered young adult romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates—and the hearts—of four mortals in their hands. “Pick an adjective—sweeping, sprawling, epic, Olympian—and yet none quite...

In this dazzling finale to the trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, the curtain closes on the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler 1785. New York, New York. As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth...