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  1. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: Book 2

    Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

    by Kimberly Kirberger

    Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II offers more inspiring stories to help you master the game we call life. Today's teens have ever more issues and social pressures to juggle than young adults just 20 years ago. This book, like its predecessor, can be your guide - a beacon in the darkness, a... (learn more about this book)

  2. Chicken Soup for the Soul

    Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul

    by Jack Canfield

    A collection of short stories, anecdotes, poems, and cartoons which present apositive outlook on life.

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  3. Kids at Work

    by Russell Freedman

    Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines's photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.

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  4. Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?

    by Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson

    A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favorite bands, personal stories, subcultures, or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews, and stories. They can be by one person or many, found in stores, traded at comic conventions, exchanged with... (learn more about this book)

  5. Children of the Great Depression

    by Russell Freedman

    As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose... (learn more about this book)

  6. Eyewitness Books: Book 101

    Mythology

    by Neil Philip

    Enter a world of myth and magic. Follow the adventures of Mighty Aphrodite, Heroic Hercules and Awesome Apollo - super-heroes of long ago! This book contains everything you need to know about anything to do with Mythology and great for project work.

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  7. Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History Of Burial

    by Penny Colman

    Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and... (learn more about this book)

  8. September 12th: We Knew Everything Would Be All Right

    by Masterson Elementary Students

    On September 11th horrific events occurred, yet through the simple text and vibrant art of first graders, we are reminded that the world continued the next day. On each page, children experience the comforts of ordinary routines, such as their teacher reading books to them, having homework and... (learn more about this book)

  9. Coming to America

    by Betsy Maestro

    Combining warm prose with child-friendly watercolor illustrations, an introduction to the history of immigration to the United States offers young readers a perspective on the heritage that all Americans share.

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  10. When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS

    by James Cross Giblin

    Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history—the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS—chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have... (learn more about this book)

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