People And Places category: 11583 books
Zachary Quinto
An Actor Reaching for the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Zachary Quinto is one of the great success stories of today, and once readers learn that he didn’t let his sexual orientation hold him back, they will be inspired to reach for the stars as well. Most people don’t know that Quinto hid his sexuality for many years. Only when he came out did his...
A Cave in the Clouds
A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
**Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. **
Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal...
We Are Displaced
My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
"A stirring and timely book." --New York Times Book Review
After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother.
Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war before landing in America. Her sister, Sabreen, survived a harrowing journey...
by William Sabin
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Mary Fields got up early. It was a big day.Today Mary would enter a race. It was a race to see how fast you could hitch up horses to a wagon. If Mary won the race, she would get a job.Mary needed a job. She had no money. It was hard for a woman to get a job. It was even harder for a black woman.Mary...
by Catherine Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
I am a Roman emperor, and my empire stretches from the sunny Mediterranean to northern Europe. I can tell that you're impressed. There are several rules I follow to keep everything under control: It is my right to banish traitors to freezing Britain. I will conquer lands to gain riches—and more...
Mountain Chef
How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The true story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people for ten days in the wilderness--and helped inspire the creation of the National Park Service.
Tie Sing was born in the mountains. The mountains were in his blood. But because he was of Chinese descent at a time in America...
by Brother Andrew, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Bestselling, Timeless Classic Now Abridged for Young Readers
With over 10 million sold, this classic work is now available in a new edition for young readers ages 9 to 12, complete with riveting illustrations. The exciting narrative follows the dangerous true-life mission of Brother Andrew,...
Passenger on the Pearl
The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
**NOW IN PAPERBACK!
The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history.**
In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy...
Paiute Princess
The Story of Sarah Winnemucca
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her grandfather's white friends. Sarah was smart and good at languages, so she was able to link the worlds. As she became older, this made her...
by Damian Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Christopher Columbus sailed the seas in search of the perfect trade route - find out how his life and explorations helped to change the world!
Discover the stories of people who have helped to shape history, ranging from early explorers such as Christopher Columbus to more modern figures like...
Horrors of History: People of the Plague
Philadelphia Flu Epidemic 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Well-researched and rich with ghastly details, this third historical fiction novel in the Horrors of History series is based on the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Actual and fictionalized victims and survivors, like the young, heroic Barium and the concerned, wise Doctor Wilmer Krusen, help weave together a gripping account of how Philadelphia coped with the outbreak.
Making it Home
The Story of Catharine Parr Traill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
As a pioneer in Canada in the early 1800s, Catharine Parr Traill was one of the first writers to record the Ontario wilderness in literary and scientific detail, and her stories for young people became part of a new focus on young people. Her books on emigration encouraged other pioneers who struggled...
by Tim J. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Stands-by-Herself lives with her grandmother in a buffalo-hide tipi on the Great Plains. Other children make fun of her because she is always by herself dreaming. One day she finds a strange egg-shaped rock and senses there is something special about it. Taking it home, she cares for it as if it were...
Susan B. Anthony
The Making of America #4
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony,* *Teri Kanefield examines the life of America’s famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his...