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Wanda Petronski is different from all the other girls in Room 13. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress to school, and every day she tells about her hundred dresses at home. Her classmates joke about her imaginary clothes - until they learn the wonderful secret of the dresses.

The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller. When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and failed. But now Candice has another chance.

World War II was raging, with thousands of American soldiers fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans was playing out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men were segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morris’s men served as guards at The Parachute School while the white soldiers prepared to be paratroopers.

When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Deja can't help but feel confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with new friends Ben and Sabeen by her side. But just as she gets closer to answering big questions about who she is, what America means, and how communities can grow (and heal), she uncovers new questions, too.

Ogni volta che va a prenderlo a scuola in ritardo, il nonno di Andonis tira fuori le scuse più strampalate, come essersi unito a un corteo di studenti ed essere finito manganellato dalla polizia. Il nipote gli crede poco, eppure un po' alla volta scoprirà che il nonno, ex attore di teatro esiliato durante la dittatura, non si inventa nulla e ha davvero vissuto una vita straordinaria. Così come straordinario è il segreto che la sua famiglia nasconde: perché, infatti, nessuno parla mai della nonna?

It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi demonstration, Georg is smuggled out of Germany to war-torn London and then across enemy seas to Australia where he must forget his past and who he is in order to survive. Hatred is contagious, but Georg finds that kindness can be, too.

At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that made him feel socially awkward. But with a talent for basketball and an unmatched team of supporters, Lew Alcindor was able to transform and to become Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Two friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African-Americans.

Eighth-grader Linc Mendoza has moved from a dusty San Francisco barrio to a well-groomed suburb and a new junior high school. Suddenly he's in the minority, a Mexican-American in a mostly white school. The basketball coach is tough on him. Classes are even tougher. And his best friend is back in the old neighborhood. To make things worse, the basketball team is scheduled to play against Linc's old school in a league game. How can Linc play his best when he's shooting against his former teammates?

Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath. Packed with photographs, primary documents, and firsthand accounts, Crash shines a spotlight on pivotal moments and figures across ethnic, gender, racial, social, and geographic divides, reflecting many different experiences of one of the most turbulent decades in American history.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.

Uno dei capolavori della letteratura americana, che riesce a coniugare il gusto per l'avventura a un'esilarante (e nostalgica) vena umoristica...

This third title in the Blackwater Novel Series by Allen Johnson Jr, is a 2014 Moonbean Children's Book Awards Silver Medal recipient. The twins, while sleeping in their tree-house, overhear a plot. Later, they return to the Blackwater River to connect with Rad Fox and help Linc and Sheriff Clyde who are in danger from the Ku Klux Klan. Once again, good people join together to confront racial hatred.

An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.

Le avventure di Mowgli, il ragazzino cresciuto nella giungla in mezzo ai lupi, del simpatico orso Baloo, della temibile tigre Shere Khan e di altri animali, continuano ad affascinare grandi e piccini. Un classico della letteratura che racconta con grande poesia un mondo selvaggio e allo stesso tempo tenerissimo, dove si diventa grandi apprendendo i valori dell'amicizia, del coraggio e della lealtà.

La Bella e la Bestia' è una tra le fiabe più conosciute e amate. a storia narra dell'incontro tra una bellissima fanciulla e una orribile bestia...

Nella metà del sedicesimo secolo, in Inghilterra un piccolo straccione si ferma davanti al cancello della residenza reale per spiare la vita dei grandi signori...

Qui si narrano le vicissitudini di Ciuchinetto: un ciuchino dall'animo gentile, costretto a sopportare le vessazioni di un fattore cattivo. La contrapposizione tra la Bontà e la Cattiveria rappresenta la materia descrittiva entro cui si snoda il romanzo.

Leon è un bambino di 6 anni che inizia la prima elementare in una scuola collocata in un vecchio edificio, ma con un'attenzione tutta nuova alla realtà multietnica in cui si incontrano culture, lingue e abilità diverse. L'emozione del primo giorno di scuola, lo stupore di molteplici diversità linguistiche, somatiche e culturali tra i bambini, episodi di solidarietà e di bullismo sono gli ingredienti principali di questo racconto in cui un inaspettato colpo di scena contribuisce a trasformare anche la situazione più difficile in un lieto fine pieno di speranza.

Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn' (1884) è uno dei più famosi romanzi di Mark Twain e uno dei più importanti di tutta la letteratura americana...

L'ultimo nato della covata era tanto, tanto diverso dai suoi fratelli. Tutti lo maltrattavano, e alla fine rimase solo. Ma dopo un lungo, terribile inverno le cose cambiarono per sempre...

Novela realista sobre la violencia en los colegios, la intolerancia, el racismo y la amistad. Rubén tiene problemas en casa y en el instituto. Su hermano está enganchado a las drogas y eso complica la vida familiar. Por otra parte, los matones del instituto van a por él y a por su amigo Wilson, al que Rubén ayuda y quiere defender de las agresiones racistas.

A Daniel, que tiene diez años, no le están yendo bien las cosas. Sobre todo porque además de que está harto de estudiar, en su verdadera pasión, que es el fútbol, no tiene ni suerte ni talento. Sus amigos "pasan" de él a la hora de jugar los partidos, pero Daniel no está dispuesto a seguir así. Cuando conoce a Maxama, un inmigrante ilegal africano, su vida cambiará. Su nuevo amigo no sólo le enseñará muchos trucos para convertirse en un buen futbolista, sino que también le mostrará cómo es la vida en realidad.

Nuestro protagonista es un soldado que se ha quedado sin trabajo, pues ha terminado la guerra. Vendrá a visitarle el Diablo... que le va a proponer un negocio un tanto raro.

Como siempre, los hermanos mayores se creen que el hermano pequeño es tonto... Me parece a mí que se equivocan; y si no, escuchad lo que le pasa al hermano menor que es el protagonista de nuestra historia.¿Cómo créeis que es el gnomo de nuestro cuento?

Cuentos en los que la imaginación del autor lleva al extremo los problemas que tienen los niños en la vida diaria: la exclusión social, el miedo a lo desconocido y la falta de cooperación en las labores del hogar. Esta dramatización producida por Sonolibro, contiene los siguientes cuentos: El niño que se volvió del revés: Evaristo es un niño con alergia al que, de un estornudo, se le vuelve la cara del revés. Pero sus amigos son como los tres mosqueteros y no van a dejar que Evaristo se sienta distinto.

Gegen Mitternacht in London passiert es: Ein seltsamer Brief flattert ins Haus und kurz darauf sind Emilys Eltern verschwunden! Doch Emily ist mutig und hat eine große Klappe. Mit ihrem neuen Freund, einem geheimnisvollen Igel, macht sie sich auf die Suche - und stolpert in eine andere Welt. Eingefroren in Nacht und Zeit, voller Magie, Fabelwesen und Monster! Eine böse Macht hat es auf ihre Familie abgesehen und jetzt liegt es an Emily, alle zu retten.

Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes she forgets to do what her mom or abuela asks. But she remembers what matters: a time when her family was whole and home made sense. When Dad returns from deployment, Emilia expects that her life will get back to normal. Instead, it unravels. Dad shuts himself in the back stall of their family's auto shop to work on an old car. Emilia peeks in on him daily, mesmerized by his welder. One day, Dad calls Emilia over.

Twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet has lived with her beloved grandfather Jeremiah in Huntsville, Alabama ever since she was little. As one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA, Jeremiah has nurtured Ebony-Grace’s love for all things outer space and science fiction - especially Star Wars and Star Trek. But in the summer of 1984, when trouble arises with Jeremiah, it’s decided she’ll spend a few weeks with her father in Harlem.

Virginia Laydon, an infant at the end of Blood on the River, has now grown up in a colony that is teetering dangerously on the precipice of conflict with the native Algonquins. Virginia has the gift, or the curse, of the knowing - an ability that could help save the colony and is equally likely to land her at the burning stake as an accused witch.