Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> History - United States - 20th Century

Once upon a time, American children couldn t borrow library books. Reading wasn t all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the first children s room at the New York Public Library, a bright, warm room filled with artwork, window seats, and most important of all, borrowing privileges to the world s best children s books in many different languages."

The Silent Sentinels tells the story of the National Woman's Party, a group of suffragists that began an ongoing protest outside of the gates of the White House back in 1917. Refusing to leave until the President of the United States agreed to support the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, thereby granting women the right to vote, these women endured torrential rains, freezing temperatures, and repeated attacks by mobs of angry men. When the government began arresting the suffragists en masse - forcing them into filthy cells and feeding them rotten food - the women went on...

To Dare to Tell the Truth follows the life of Daniel Ellsberg, a government analyst who, when confronted by the growing horrors and immorality of the Vietnam conflict, decides to risk his own freedom to bring the truth to the American people. From the jungles of Vietnam, where Dan witnesses first-hand the brutality of modern warfare, to the streets of the United States, where the antiwar movement is challenging the authority of the American government, the story follows Dan on his personal journey from being a top secret military analyst to being a fervent anti-war activist. When...

El 15 de agosto de 1914, cuatrocientos un aNos desde que Balboa y sus hombres cortaran un pasaje por el DariEn, el S.S. AncOn cruzO el Istmo de PanamA del ocEano AtlAntico al PacIfico. El viaje tomO un poco mAs de nueve horas con cuarenta minutos y todo marchO viento en popa. AquI estAn los detalles de ese viaje histOrico. Relato bilingUe en espaNol e inglEs. Aprobado por el Ministerio de PanamA como texto complementario para el uso en el salOn de clases. On August 15, 1914, four hundred one years since Balboa and his men cut their way through the Darien, the S.S. Ancon crossed the Isthmus...

On August 15, 1914, four hundred one years since Balboa and his men cut their way through the Darien, the S.S. Ancon crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The trip took just over nine hours and forty minutes, and she did it without a hitch. Here are the details of that historic voyage. Trilingual story in French, Spanish and English. Approved by Panama's Ministry of Education as a complementary text for use in the classroom.

Embarque sur le S.S. Ancon pour la premiEre traversEe officielle par le Canal de Panama Conte trilingue en franCais, espagnol...