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Ashes of Roses
Ashes of Roses is a very interesting book. It has lots of historical reference to the Ellis Island immigration period, and is very well written.
Ashes Of Roses is one of the greatest books out there
Rose is the main Character of Ashes Of Rose.Rose is the oldest of 4 kids in her family Maureen, Bridget, and the Baby boy Joseph. Yes of course sense she's the oldest she had to take care of the all of the kids when her parents are gone or even there but and busy. When they get into America they have to go to through test and the baby Joseph has a dieses called Trachoma and Pa has to take him back to Ireland to live with the grandma and when he's better that they can come back and bring him to live in America. Pa and Joseph come back a moth later. Rose is 16 and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. She has to have a job to help keep the house and everything they had by getting the money and the family needs. Rose hasn't been living in America for a little while now but still misses everything from Ireland. Just to add on to missing everything and wanting to go back the Triangle Factory catches on fire and everything inside is gone. Rose is strong enough to realize that she couldn't have done anything about it and that she has to go on with her life and just remember all the good things that happened in the time of her life. So Rose goes out and try's to find a new job. Rose and her family are getting back together because her baby brother and dad are back in the United States and back to see them, because when they came to America Joseph couldn't get in because he had a dieses called Trachoma. Realizing it has only been a month they can't wait to see Joseph and Pa. Now knowing that the family can come back together Rose is happy again and is glad to still be living in America. If you want to read a great book and feel like you have gone through and the stuff Rose has then I would recommend the book Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch.
Ashes OF Roses
A 16 yr old girl, Rose, faces chalenges in her life, starting with a long jouney to america, then learning to let go of her little brother, who has an eye infection. after a terible time in her uncle's flat, her mother goes back to irland, while Rose and her sister stay behind in america.many other things come up, also.read the book to find out why her only friends in america died. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Fiction - History    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Fiction    5. Girls & Women    6. Historical - United States - 20th Century    7. Historical Fiction (Young Adult)    8. Immigrants    9. Irish Americans    10. Juvenile Fiction    11. New York    12. New York (State)    13. People & Places - United States - Other    14. Social Issues - Emigration & Immigration    15. Social Situations - Emigration & Immigration    16. Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century   

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Subjects:  1. Children: Grades 4-6    2. History - General    3. Juvenile Nonfiction   

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Subjects:  1. Audio - Children's Education / Activity    2. Children: Grades 3-4    3. History - Modern    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Modern   

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growing strong
how you can feel with a little boy's hardship in a boarding school and how you hope for his stamina and how you love his intense friendships that bring him on his way.
A powerful story of courage and change
If Bryce Courtenay's The Power Of One sounds familiar, it's because this represents a young reader's condensed edition of a prior hard-hitter which became both an adult classic and an acclaimed movie of the same name. It's great to see such a powerful novel condensed with youth in mind: grades 8-12 will find compelling the story of 1930s South Africa and a boy who faces apartheid and prejudice in a country where his childhood is marked by loneliness and dreams of changing lives. A powerful story of courage and change evolves.

Great Novel - but CONDENSED
I have read the Power of One, the unedited version and it is brilliant, inspiring, and brutal - one of the best books I've read. However, this edition that is being sold here, is the Young Reader's edition, which isn't immediately obvious from Amazon's description or the picture. It does say so on the cover, but it's very small unless you enlarge the picture. So, my review gives it a 2 as it may be an unpleasant surprise for those who want to read the actual novel. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Boxing    2. Conduct of life    3. Fiction    4. Fiction - Historical    5. Historical - Africa    6. Historical - General    7. Historical Fiction (Young Adult)    8. History    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Self-confidence    11. Social Issues - Abandonment    12. Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings    13. Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism    14. Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance    15. South Africa    16. Sports & Recreation - General   

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Good Starter Book For Learning About Columbus.
Hi!:) This book is nice and informative without being too long and boring. It will most likely appeal to children around 5 or 6 through about 9 or 10. After that, they may want to read another, more in depth biography about this remarkable and fearless sailor and explorer.Read more

Subjects:  1. America    2. Biography & Autobiography - General    3. Children's 4-8 - History - General    4. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 1-2    6. Columbus, Christopher    7. Discovery and exploration    8. Explorers    9. History - General    10. Juvenile Nonfiction    11. Juvenile literature    12. Readers - Beginner    13. Spanish    14. English    15. English language: specific skills    16. Juvenile Fiction / Biographical / General    17. North America    18. South America   

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Family Entertainment
This collection of "Little House and the Prarie" episodes from the first season has brought back many happy childhood memories for me. Its like stepping back to atime when old fashioned values were appreciated.I am thrilled to be able to share this quality enterainment with my young children.Every episode teaches a lesson in kindness, love and understanding.The locations are so beautiful and and life so simple then.My four year old loves it now, especially the episodes where Nelly Olsen gets whats coming to her!If you're worried aboutmodern televisions negative influence in your childs behavior take control, go out and buy this.You will be very glad you did

Beautiful Illlustrations and Colors but...
in this set, which I gave to my daughter for Christmas, when she unwrapped it, the box was broken on two edges.We are reading book #3 and the pages have begun falling out.The quality of the set is the problem.The stories are wonderful.

A Classic, yet still exceedingly timely, collection
I do not remember the first time I real all the Laura books.They have, however, been on my list of comfort reading ever since.Was it because it was so easy to identify with her sibling rivalry in the first couple books, or because of the vivid descriptions that brought life in America over 100 years ago into my imagination, or because the chapters, so good for bedtime reading, encapsulated each vignette into a cohesive whole?It's hard to say exactly what it was about these stories, but Mrs. Wilder's voice creates a window into our country's past that no child should miss out upon.Where else would they find such a narrator of pioneer western America?Let alone one that is so easy to identify with.This collection is beautifully colored (the illustrations have always been wonderfully evocative) and the pages are a tad thicker than normal and shiny and feel good in the hand. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / Contemporary    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 4-6    4. Classics    5. Family - General    6. Historical - United States - 19th Century    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Juvenile Fiction / Classics   

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"Some people are so color struck. They think being light-skinned is better than being dark! Mama says that's nonsense and I think so, too."Read more

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Color Me Dark
In this book, Color Me Dark, the rising action is about how black and white people were separated back in the early 1900's. The main character of the story, Nellie, is trying to get used to the fact that her family will move from Tennessee all the way to Chicago because her father plans on opening a business. Because blacks and whites are together but segregated, she faces many trails.
Starts Too Slow
The author took too many pages to introduce the charactors. I really was intersted in the great mirgation North, but I just kept readind and READING and there was just no action. Not the best in the series.

Color doesn't count
My book is about this girl named Nellie Lee Love.She has a sister named Erma Jean Love.They live in Tennessee during segregation.She has a uncle Pace who was in the war, but when he comes home he gets hurt.The police say he got drunk and was run over by a train.Erma stops talking when uncle Pace dies.Nellie and her parents move to Chicago, but later find out it is almost the same.After a while Erma is able to talk.She tells everybody how uncle Pace died.
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Subjects:  1. African Americans    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 4-6    4. Family life    5. Fiction    6. Historical - United States - 20th Century    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Juvenile Historical Fiction    9. People & Places - United States - African-American    10. Prejudices    11. Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism    12. Ethnic groups    13. Historical figures    14. Illinois    15. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    16. Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General    17. Reading Group Guide   

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Christmas in the Trenches
A wonderful children's book filled with beautiful pictures, and a very moving tale about the WW1 Christmas truce.Book comes with the story and original song on CD. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    2. Children: Grades 1-2    3. Christmas Truce, 1914    4. Fiction    5. General    6. Historical - Military & Wars    7. Historical - United States - 20th Century    8. Holidays & Celebrations - Christmas    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Juvenile Historical Fiction    11. World War, 1914-1918   

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World Hisory in Brief
Exceeded my expectations.Book was on time and in very good condition. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. World - General    6. World history    7. History / General   

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    2. History - General    3. History - General History    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. World - General    6. History / World   

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All kids' books should be this good.
I thought my 4-year-old was only half listening as I read "The First Americans" to her sister (age 6).But the other evening at story time, her face lit up and she begged for "history"!I can give it no higher praise. The first volume in Joy Hakim's "A History of US"
A History of US is basically an attempt to write a juvenile history of the United States that will speak to a generation of young readers who get most of their information from computers and the Internet.That means Joy Hakim offers up lots of information with lots of illustrations, but it also means been very much aware of the mind set of her readers.When Hakim describes the scope "The First Americans: Prehistory-1600" we get a clear sense of this perspective: "This book begins in the Ice Age with some people who hiked and canoed from Asia to a New Land and, thousands of years later, got called Indians by Christopher Columbus, who didn't know where he was." This first volume begins with the first human beings crossing the land mass that once connected Asia and North America and ends with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the event that signaled the beginning of the end of Spain's empire in the New World and the start of English colonization of the land that would become the United States. The first volume in Joy Hakim's "A History of US"
A History of US is basically an attempt to write a juvenile history of the United States that will speak to a generation of young readers who get most of their information from computers and the Internet.That means Joy Hakim offers up lots of information with lots of illustrations, but it also means been very much aware of the mind set of her readers.When Hakim describes the scope "The First Americans: Prehistory-1600" we get a clear sense of this perspective: "This book begins in the Ice Age with some people who hiked and canoed from Asia to a New Land and, thousands of years later, got called Indians by Christopher Columbus, who didn't know where he was." This first volume begins with the first human beings crossing the land mass that once connected Asia and North America and ends with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the event that signaled the beginning of the end of Spain's empire in the New World and the start of English colonization of the land that would become the United States.Read more

Subjects:  1. America    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. Discovery and exploration    6. Exploration    7. History    8. History - United States/General    9. Indians of North America    10. Juvenile Nonfiction    11. Juvenile literature    12. People & Places - United States - Native American    13. History, American | Native American    14. Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / General   

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Not flat out amazing, but pretty decent
For once, a school related book that did not bore me out of my misery.
not...COMPLETE...torture
I love reading, especially historical fiction, but, I think this book would have been more interesting if it hadn't been first written so long ago. I found a lot of the dialog and wording very hard to understand, and I'm a straight "A" student. Most of the book was very dull and poorly written, but at least a third of it had some interesting "action" or something in it. I had to read this book for school, and it wasn't complete torture, but it was pretty bad. I wouldn't suggest buying this book or reading any other works of Conrad Richter.

A Beautiful Piece of American Literature
Okay, first of all, people like MeeMoo who think historical fiction is boring, shouldn't read or report on it. I don't report on video games, which I think are stupid, so why is MeeMoo on my turf? Secondly, teachers should not force kids to read & report on literature written for adults - it's not fair to the kids, who are not developmentally or intellectually ready for this kind of novel, and it's not fair to the novel. So teachers, get your acts together!
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Subjects:  1. Boys / Men    2. Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Classics    5. Delaware Indians    6. Fiction    7. Historical - United States - General    8. Indians of North America    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / General   

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A great scholarly introduction to the history of Asia
I read this textbook in a junior-level undergraduate course on the history of Asia.Rhoads Murphey's text certainly has a tall task in covering 4,000 years of history in severally culturally distinct regions in Asia, but I thought he succeeded.
Bias not based on simple ignorance
While it is understandable that every histrical account, treatise or even research based on available historical datatends to get subjective, it is hardly an excuse when blatant personal biases come through in a text book written by a so called scholar.
It's a Textbook
Let's not forget this fact: this is a college textbook.If you're looking for something that will be interesting reading or will keep you entertained when the television is off, you don't want this book.You will be overwhelmed by rafts of facts and will not be able to digest it all.Find another book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia    2. Asia - General    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: World    6. Asian / Middle Eastern history    7. History / General   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Juvenile literature    3. United States   

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Nothing but the Truth
The story was about a boy named Philip Malloy and he got suspended for humming during the Natinal Anthem.The teacher Mrs.Narwin had asked him to stop the first time but Philip Malloy refused.I think that Mrs. Narwin should have waited till the end to tell him to stop, but instead she was interupting to.She asked him to stop but he still would'nt do it and finally the third time she asked him she sent him out of the room.Then the principal said that he could either say sorry or get a 2 day suspention.And Philip refused to say sorry so he got a 2 day suspention.They thought that that was a rule but the super adendent saod there was no rule agenst singing during the Natinal Anthem.Then the word got out and then philip got letters from other schools that said about how he could go to their scholl because they have nothing agenst singing.Then Mrs.Narwingot letters that were not true and quit her job and went to live with her sister.

Excellent Young Adult novel
A powerful topic and engaging format. A great read for any young adult.

Not the whole truth
This story isn't really about truth as much as it's about communication and integrity. The problem is that all the characters make multiple unnecessary mistakes and compound the problem, demonstrating only the wrong way to do things and never the right way. I wonder if young readers will understand this? I was amazed to find no positive role models. Even the victimized "heroine," Ms. Narwin, was strangely ineffectual, as were the "heroic" Philip and his parents. And worse, Avi paints with a cynical brush all characters involved in education politics and media. There is nothing profound or thought-provoking in this story; the "good, bad, and ugly" are obvious. Some young readers may benefit from obvious points, and as such this might work as a cautionary tale. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Classics    5. Fiction    6. High schools    7. Historical - General    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. Schools    10. Social Issues - Values    11. Social Situations - Values    12. Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Values   

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GREAT TEXT
This is by far the best US History text.I'm a teacher and have tried many books, and this is the best. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    2. History - United States/General    3. Juvenile Nonfiction   

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Grandma Dowdel's back! She's just as feisty and terrifying andgoodhearted as she was in Richard Peck's Read more

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A Year Down Yonder
The Great Depression sounds like a dreary era to write a story about, but instead A Year Down Yonder, is packed full of exciting and funny adventures.Mary Alice is a fifteen year old girl from Chicago, in 1937, who goes to live with her Grandma Dowdel in a hick town in rural Illinois.Mary moves to her Grandma's house after her father lost his job during hard times due to the Depression. The move was challenging and uneasy at first. Amazing it's a Newbery Medal book
Ok, I usually find that Newberry Medal books are amazing children literature. But A Year Down Yonder sure wasn't. I thought it was boring, strange story that didn't make me laugh like I thought it would. I think Richard Peck could have made a really great, funny, enjoyable story out of the plot that he had. But unfortunately he didn't. Me and my friend read this for school and we both didn't like it. This is what we said about it on "The Books You Read for Reading Buddies" poster. "It was really hard to get into, and once we got into it, it was still boring."

Better than 5 Stars!
I'd give this book ten stars if I could! Like A Long Way from Chicago, the characters are vibrant, the description is believable and vivid, and you can't predict what's going to happen next.
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Subjects:  1. 1929    2. Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    4. Children: Grades 4-6    5. Country life    6. Depressions    7. Family - Multigenerational    8. Fiction    9. General    10. Girls & Women    11. Grandmothers    12. Illinois    13. Juvenile Fiction    14. Lifestyles - Country Life    15. Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century   

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Great African Americans by Taylor Oughton
Teachers are always searching for something interesting to use for Black History Month. This is it! Writers, doctors, artists, educators, politicians, sports figures, inventors and many more can be found in thisinteresting coloring book. Under each sketch is a paragraph telling aboutthe individual.My students will enjoy these next September. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - Coloring Books    2. Activity Books - General    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Children: Grades 3-4    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. People & Places - United States - African-American    7. History    8. Interactive & activity books & packs    9. Multiculturalism    10. Social Science / African-American Studies    11. USA   

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Best kids' church history book available
Very informative and wonderfully written stories of the heroes of the Christian faith.Riveting and inspiring!I've used this with my own children, in teaching Sunday School and in my 4th grade class.It's always the preferred book, even when reading from several other sources.Every Christian should read this book.

Very interesting and well written
We have used this book in our home school studies of the Middle Ages, and have loved it.The author makes the history come alive with his wonderful writing style and interesting information.We have used it alongside other books that sometimes discuss the same people in history, and this one is by far the most interesting narrative.I love it, as do my 5th and 2nd grader.We use it as a read aloud, but an older student could easily tackle it as a reader.

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It was very interesting and informative. It gave us a view of what people go through to stay faithful to their belief in God ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography - Historical    2. Biography & Autobiography - Religious    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. Christian biography    6. Church history    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Christianity    9. Juvenile literature    10. Religion - Christianity - General    11. Religion - General    12. Children's 9-12    13. Religion - Christianity   

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Perfect solution for daughter bringing home heavy book
It had been suggested by another mom to check out Amazon.com for a duplicate history book for student to have at home for two reasons.One to keep from having to carry the heavy book back and forth from school and second to have your own book you can make notes in margin, highlight, etc.So it was the perfect solution for my daughther!!

A Great Stepping Stone
Having being taught only the "Mr. Rogers" version of American history by my previous teachers (the Revolutionary War started with the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776), I found this book very disagree able.Then, of course, I realized that we had to hand a nice, happy, packaged to Americas young ones. i do learn from this book
most history books are pretty dry, but this one teaches me. i actually do learn the history of america from a concise text. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    2. History - United States/General    3. Juvenile Nonfiction