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This book seeks to educate and inspire, bringing to life iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash, relating their true stories of breaking boundaries and expectations.

Jabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom and tells a fact-filled history of African Americans through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more.

Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries--many never before published--Cokie Roberts brings war-torn Washington, DC, into focus through the lives of its formidable women.

Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family. Here he remembers that horrific time-and how an impulsive decision to steal an SS soldier's shirt altered the course of his life.

Jeremy Dauber tells the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.

In 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. An unforgettable narrative of the power of sisterhood in the most extreme circumstances, and of how a mother's love can overcome the most impossible odds, the Bucci sisters' memoir is a timely reminder that separating families is an inexcusable evil.

Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests.

Sabine Zuur, a young Dutch resistance fighter, spent over two years in three concentration camps during WWII. This true story is told by her daughter who used an archive of letters.

Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. In this study of five decades that changed the course of history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire's beginning to its defeat in World War I.

A Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places.