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Series
Ethnic chronology volume no. 9
Publisher
Oceana Publications
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Chronologically traces the history and accomplishments of Poles in the United States from 1608-1972. Includes reproductions of documents pertinent to Polish-American history.
8) Rodzina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
Author
Publisher
Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet northern England village, thirteen-year-old Iris moves into the household of a strict uncle following the illness and loss of her mother. Farther away across the English Channel, a mountainous storm is brewing. Fifteen-year-old Ian leaves home with his family on a horse-drawn carriage to escape impending Nazi invasion only to face yet more danger and peril from another invader. So begins a fascinating journey that leads Ian on a quest...
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right ("Make America Great Again," after all, is a plea for the past), and associated with violent periods of our country's history when white supremacy was even more dominant than today. Can a liberal white woman still be sentimental about her childhood, her European immigrant family history, her working-class upbringing? In Dreadful Sorry, Jennifer...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It is May 2014, and forty-nine-year-old archaeology professor Klara Lieberman has just received a letter from her estranged mother that will dramatically change her life. Her long-ago-disappeared father, she learns--the man about whom she has been desperate for information since she was a child--is dead, and has been for a while. But now the Polish government is giving financial reparations for land it stole from its Jewish citizen during WWII, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
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