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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Language
English
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"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic....
3) Rainwater
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In 1934, Ella Barron struggles to keep her Texas boardinghouse afloat despite the financial hardships her neighbors are facing, which leads her to rent a room to the soft-spoken David Rainwater, who shows Ella and her ten-year-old son the true meaning of trust and compassion.
Author
Publisher
Viking, Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's 1943, and the White House is busy with the war effort. Diana Hopkins only wants to help, but doesn't know what a ten-year-old can do - until the Roosevelts come up with the idea of Victory Gardens, and Diana suddenly has the important job of Victory Gardener for the White House"--
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1989
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the story of the Manhattan Project, following General Leslie Groves, J. Robet Oppenheimer, and others as they rush to produce Fat Boy and Little Boy, the first two atomic bombs built by the United States for, use in World War II.
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