A biography of Bruce Lee focusing on his early years in Hong Kong, where he discovered martial arts and began developing the physical and mental skills that led to his career as a legendary martial artist and film star.
Biography – Autobiography- Memoir
Julia
A story of a girl, Julia Burgos, born into a humble Puerto Rican family in 1914. With beautiful illustrations, it re-creates the time in which she grew up, and narrates how Julia Burgos became one of Puerto Rico’s and Latin America’s most beloved poets.
Fireflies In The Dark
The story of Friedl Dicker-Brandies and the children of Terezin covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslavakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Child Of The Warsaw Ghetto
A story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through the eyes of Froim Baum who was born in Warsaw on April 15, 1936 and managed to survive until he was liberated at Dachau at the end of the war.
The Other Victims
First-person stories of non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis. Personal narratives of Christians, Roma people, deaf people, homosexuals, and Blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.
Anne Frank And The Children Of The Holocaust
The journey of the Franks after Anne’s diary stops and afterwards story of the millions of other children throughout Europe who faced Nazi persecution.
Surviving Hitler
Caught up in Hitler’s Final Solution to annihilate Europe’s Jews, 15-year-old Jack is torn from his family and thrown into the nightmarish world of the concentration camps. Jack forges friendships with other prisoners, and together they struggle to make it one more days.
Who Was King Tut?
Explains the life and times of King Tutankhamen, an ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of his tomb’s discovery by Howard Carter in 1922 as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up In Siberia
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the next five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
No Words To Say Goodbye
Forced to leave her native Soviet Union because of anti-Semitism, a young girl journeys to the United States where she records her experiences in a journal, as she adjusts to a new way of life. Also written by Kelli Pryor.