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Materials from United States of America

I Love Saturdays y Domingos

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Saturdays and Sundays are very special days for the child in this story. On Saturdays, she visits Grandma and Grandpa, who come from a European-American background, and on Sundays — los domingos — she visits Abuelito y Abuelita, who are Mexican-American. While the two sets of grandparents are different in many ways, they also have [...]

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Cocoa Ice

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A girl in Santo Domingo tells how cocoa is harvested during the late 1800s while at the same time her counterpart in Maine tells about the harvesting of ice.

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Mazes around the World

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

Puzzling and mysterious, mazes and labyrinths have fascinated people around the world for centuries. From England to Egypt, Greece to South Africa and beyond, travel on an exciting journey as you discover the secrets of these patterns.

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Letters from Rifka

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.

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Kiki Strike : Inside The Shadow City

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she too wants to explore the subterranean world.

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City Within A City: How Kids Live In New York’s Chinatown

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

Describes the lives of two young Chinese Americans and their customs and conditions at home in New York City’s Chinatown.

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Taking Wing

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

With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents’ farm in Vermont.

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Bar Mitzvah: A Jewish Boy’s Coming Of Age

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

A resource for boys who are preparing for their own ceremonies or wondering what the ceremony feels like–provides the historic background of the bar mitzvah itself, describes its ceremonial objects and rituals, and recounts real-life stories.

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Copper Sun

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

Two fifteen-year-old girls — one a slave and the other an indentured servant — escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

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The Night Of Las Posadas

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

At the annual celebration of Las Posadas in old Santa Fe, the husband and wife slated to play Mary and Joseph are delayed by car trouble, but a mysterious couple seems perfect for the part.

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