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Aleutian sparrow
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Karen Hesse,Evon Zerbetz |
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese. |
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The cats in Krasinski Square
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Karen Hesse |
Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall. |
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Come on, rain
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Karen Hesse,Karen Hesse,Jon J. Muth |
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat. |
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Lavender
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Karen Hesse,Andrew Glass |
When Codie's favorite aunt is having a baby, Codie has lots of worries: Will the baby and her aunt be all right, will Codie's baby quilt be done on time, and will her aunt still have time for her? |
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The stone lamp
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Karen Hesse |
A collection of eight poems, each taking place on a different night of Hanukkah and following the history of Jews from twelfth-century England to twentieth-century Israel. |
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Stowaway
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Karen Hesse |
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. |
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Witness
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Karen Hesse |
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltra… |
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Night job
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Karen Hesse |
When the sun sets, Dad s job as a school custodian is just beginning. What is it like to work on a Friday night while the rest of the city is asleep? There s the smell of lilacs in the night air, the… |
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My thumb
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Karen Hesse |
I love my thumb, I truly do, it tastes of pears and carrot stew. It's like a hug, an "I love you." My mom hoped in a year or two there'd be some things that I outgrew, and some I have, but never you. |
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Letters from Rifka
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Karen Hesse |
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to Ameri… |
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