Chronological Period/1930's
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The Water Horse
$7.99 Read moreDick King-Smith’s classic story about a very unusual pet–a water horse –returns with a charming new cover to win over a new generation of readers
When eight-year-old Kirstie finds a strange egg nea- Author: King-Smith, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0375842314
- Language: English
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The Story of the Second World War for Children
$14.95 Add to cartPublished in association with Imperial War Museums, The Story of the Second World War for Children sensitively teaches kids about history’s deadliest conflict.
Packed with photographs, maps, and detail
- Series: Y
- Author: Chrisp, Peter
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1783124504
- Language: English
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The Mighty Miss Malone
$15.99 Add to cartIn the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story.
“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonder- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2012
- ISBN10: 385734913
- Language: English
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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)
$18.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. An NCTE Orbis Pictus recomme
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 133825572X
- Language: English
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Old Neb and The Lighthouse Treasure
$10.95 Add to cartIn Old Neb and The Lighthouse Treasure, it is the 1930s and we meet Neb, a horse who belongs to himself, and two families living on a white-beached island jewel set in the blue water of the Gulf of Me
- Series: Old NEB
- Author: Swoboda, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 125
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 156164787X
- Language: English
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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)
$10.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. An NCTE Orbis Pictus recomme… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1338255754
- Language: English
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The Cage: A Holocaust Memoir
$12.99 Add to cartA testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this “vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is a … [more below]
- Author: Sender, Ruth Minsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1481457225
- Language: English
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Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)
$19.99 Add to cartAcclaimed author Karen Hesse’s Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.
“Dust piles up like snow across the prairi… [more below]
- Author: Hesse, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0590360809
- Language: English
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Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece
$21.99 Add to cartIn Bear Run, Pennsylvania, a home unlike any other perches atop a waterfall. The water’s tune plays differently in each of its sunlight-dappled rooms; the structure itself blends effortlessly into the
- Author: Harshman, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1596437189
- Language: English
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe: A Hero of the Holocaust
$12.95 Read moreMaximilian Kolbe’s decision to take the place of a condemned man in the Auschwitz concentration camp is one of the greatest stories of heroism to emerge from the Holocaust. This book brings to life fo
- Series: Vision Books
- Author: De Maria, Fiorella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643220
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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The Great Hurricane: 1938
$16.00 Add to cartOn the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color i… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142540
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Five, 1936-1941
$32.50 Add to cartVirginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941. Edited… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #5
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0156260409
- Language: English
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The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic
$29.99 Read moreCommunism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability…. [more below]
- Author: O’Neill, John E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1684512549
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
$22.95 Read moreBetween 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees,
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209043
- Language: English
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Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
$25.99 Add to cartAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had … [more below]
- Author: Pedersen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190619120
- Language: English
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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945
$19.99 Add to cartLisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to… [more below]
- Author: Lochery, Neill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391888
- Language: English
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Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect
$38.99 Add to cartSt. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town s illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang,… [more below]
- Author: Waugh, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1540204715
- Language: English
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartDorothea Lange’s depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer docume… [more below]
- Author: Meltzer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606222
- Language: English
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$35.00 Add to cartA masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the p- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Jenkins, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: November 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069593
- Language: English
