Age: Biography

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Thanks To My Mother

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.

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Chingis Khan

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A biography of the Mongol leader and military strategist who, at the height of his power, was supreme master of the largest empire ever created in the lifetime of one man.

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Doctor on an Elephant

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Riding elephants, crossing flooded rivers, outrunning rogues, and avoiding tigers are not the things that most doctors face in an average workday, but then they don’t work in the province of Bengal. Dr. John Symington did. As the doctor for several tea plantations in a wild region along India’s northeastern border in the early part [...]

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Hoang Anh: A Vietnamese-American Boy

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In a photographic study of the immigrant experience in action today, a Vietnamese-American boy explains how he successfully lives astride two cultures, American and Vietnamese.

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Hilde And Eli, Children Of The Holocaust

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Providing a look at the pain and horror of the Holocaust, an illustrated book presents the story of two Jewish children–a German girl and Czechoslovakian boy–who were victims of Nazi rule.

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Hiding From The Nazis

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was separated from her parents and placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis.

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The Cat With The Yellow Star: Coming Of Age In Terezin

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A little cat pinned with a star, a Nazi concentration camp and an opera production–this is the story of Ela Weissberger’s coming of age in Terezin and the adults who helped the children to survive there.

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Canadian Childhoods

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A Tundra anthology in words and art showing children of many backgrounds growing up in many parts of Canada.

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Season Of Rage : Hugh Burnett And The Struggle For Civil Rights

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

The last place in North America where black people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the Deep South. It was in the small, sleepy Ontario town of Dresden, the site of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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She Dared: True Stories Of Heroines, Scoundrels, And Renegades

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Delves into the lives of twelve women who took up challenges that society felt could be met only by men, from a Civil War spy and World War II fighter pilot to a Wild West desperado and Yukon adventurer.

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