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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions that gave rise to efforts to secure better working conditions for the women working in the garment industry in early twentieth-century New York and led to the formation of the Women's Trade Union League and the first women's strike in 1909.
64) Prophecy Rock
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.
66) Want a ride?
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A series of smaller and smaller animals play tricks on each other but it is ant, the very smallest animal, that plays the best trick of all.
68) To race a dream
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In 1906, fifteen-year-old Theodora disguises herself as a boy to pursue her dream of becoming a race horse driver.
70) Abuela's weave
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A young Guatemalan girl and her grandmother grow closer as they weave some special creations and then make a trip to the market in hopes of selling them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
79) The ice horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
While harvesting ice on the Hudson River with his uncle one winter, a boy uses quick thinking to save his uncle's horse.