The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Title | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi PDF eBook |
Author | Neal Bascomb |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2013-08-27 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0545562392 |
A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. This Sydney Taylor Book Award- and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award-winning story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale! In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination. This is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened between these two events. Illustrated with powerful photos throughout, impeccably researched, and told with powerful precision, THE NAZI HUNTERS is a can't-miss work of narrative nonfiction for middle-grade and YA readers.
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Title | Outstanding Books for the College Bound PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Carstensen |
Publisher | American Library Association |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2011-05-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 083899315X |
More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.
Vincent and Theo
Title | Vincent and Theo PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Heiligman |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1250109698 |
Printz Honor Book • YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner • SCBWI Golden Kite Winner • Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award Winner From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love. The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend—Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a tale of two lives intertwined and the extraordinary love of the Van Gogh brothers.
Food-Related Stories
Title | Food-Related Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Gaby Melian |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0593223497 |
“Gaby Melian tells so many stories through her relationship with food—about love, about loss, about hard work, and about finding her passion. The pages are dripping with delicious smells and tastes, and will give you a new way to look at both cooking and what it means to have a plan.” —Molly Birnbaum, editor in chief, America’s Test Kitchen Kids In this moving, personal account, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her journey with food and how creating a relationship with food -- however simple or complicated -- is a form of activism in its own right. Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. This is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. "Food rescued me so many other times -- not only because I sold food to survive. I cook to entertain; I cook to be liked; I cook to be loved." In this installment, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food -- from growing up in Argentina to her time as a Jersey City street vendor and later, as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Powerful and full of heart, here, Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's healthy, sustainable, and thoughtful.
Cooler Than Fiction
Title | Cooler Than Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Jill S. Jarrell |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0786461837 |
Designed for public librarians, school media specialists, teachers, and anyone with an interest in supporting teen literacy, this book features 133 nonfiction booktalks to use with both voracious and reluctant teen readers. These booktalks cover a wide and varied range of nonfiction genres, including science, nature, history, biography, graphic novels, true crime, art, and much more. Each includes a set of discussion questions and sample project ideas which could be easily expanded into a classroom lesson plan or full library program. Also included are several guidelines for classroom integration, tips for making booktalks more interactive and interesting, and selections for further reading.
Four Streets and a Square: A History of Manhattan and the New York Idea
Title | Four Streets and a Square: A History of Manhattan and the New York Idea PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Aronson |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2021-11-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1536205931 |
From a Sibert Medalist comes the epic story of Manhattan—a magical, maddening island “for all” and a microcosm of America. A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year history of Manhattan to map the island’s unexpected intersections. Focusing on the evolution of four streets and a square (Wall Street, 42nd Street, West 4th Street, 125th Street, and Union Square) Marc Aronson explores how new ideas and forms of art evolved from social blending. Centuries of conflict—among original Americans and Europeans, slavers and the enslaved, rich and poor, immigrants and native-born—produced segregation, oppression, and violence, but also new ways of speaking, singing, and being American. From the Harlem Renaissance to Hammerstein, from gay pride in the Village to political clashes at Tammany Hall, this clear-eyed pageant of the island’s joys and struggles—enhanced with photos and drawings, multimedia links to music and film, and an extensive bibliography and source notes—is, above all, a love song to Manhattan’s triumphs.
And We Rise
Title | And We Rise PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Martin |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2022-02-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0593352521 |
A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement—from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal" ruling—and introduces lesser-known figures and moments that were just as crucial to the Movement and our nation's centuries-long fight for justice and equality. A poignant, powerful, all-too-timely collection that is both a vital history lesson and much-needed conversation starter in our modern world. Complete with historical photographs, author's note, chronology of events, research, and sources.