Don Brown
68) The good lion
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
70) We the people!
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by Abigail Adams, We the People! explores how Athenian and Greek assemblies inspired our legislative and judiciary branches; how Enlightenment ideals of reason, toleration, and human progress shaped our founding fathers' thinking; how Mali's Manden Charter and England's Magna Carta influenced our Bill of Rights; and how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy directly shaped the US Constitution. Explaining the fundamentals of democracy--liberty,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust. From the Sibert Honor and YALSA Award--winning creator behind The Unwanted, Drowned City, and others.In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy...
72) All charged up!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Packed with illuminating facts, this graphic novel exploration of electricity sheds light on key inventors and breakthroughs, from the earliest discoveries to the Age of Electricity to today, breaking down concepts like atoms, current and electromagnetism in a kid-friendly, accessible way.
74) Mack made movies
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of rocket technology, from ancient Chinese rockets, the "bombs bursting in air" during the War of 1812, and Russia's Sputnik program.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Three real-life accounts of the struggles of American soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields to, in two cases, US military tribunals.
Legion Rising: Surviving Combat and the Scars It Left Behind by Jeff Morris
Follow Jeff through up-close, fast-paced accounts of the thrills and dangers of combat as a Platoon Leader in Iraq. Feel the weight of the gruesome and tragic loss of eight men whose lives were taken in the line of duty. Journey...
Author
Language
English
Description
Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known today for writing the Corps' Rifleman's Creed. Rupertus was one of the outstanding Marines of the twentieth century, but he died in 1945, so his story has never been told.
Rupertus "made his bones" in the USMC's "savage wars of peace" before World War II: Haiti for three years after World War I, China in 1929, and again in 1937.
In World War II, Rupertus commanded during four important battles: Tulagi...
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