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""When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You
can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not
right.'"--Claudette Colvin"
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily
injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a
white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of
being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later,
fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her
classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year
later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff
in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the
segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal
underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews
with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the
first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil
rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the
fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that
would change the course of American history.
Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and
houses keep us warm; agriculture feeds us; medicine fights our
diseases. It all works-most of the time. But key resources lie in
the most hazardous places, so we choose to live on river flood
plains, on the slopes of volcanoes, at the edge of the sea, above
seismic faults. We pack ourselves into cities, Petri dishes for
germs. Civilization thrives on the edge of disaster. And what
happens when natural forces meet molasses holding tanks,
insecticides, deepwater oil rigs, nuclear power plants? We learn
the hard way how to avoid the last disaster-and maybe how to create
the next one. What we don't know can, indeed, hurt us. This book's
white-knuckled journey from antiquity to the present leads us to
wonder at times how humankind has survived. And yet, as Author Gale
Eaton makes clear, civilization has advanced not just in spite of
disasters but in part because of them. Hats off to human
resilience, ingenuity, and perseverance! They've carried us this
far; may they continue to do so into our ever-hazardous future. The
History in 50 series explores history by telling thematically
linked stories. Each book includes 50 illustrated narrative
accounts of people and events-some well-known, others often
overlooked-that, together, build a rich connect the-dots mosaic and
challenge conventional assumptions about how history unfolds.
Dedicated to the premise that history is the greatest story ever
told. Includes a mix of "greatest hits" with quirky, surprising,
provocative accounts. Challenges readers to think and engage.
Includes a glossary of technical terms; sources by chapter;
teaching resources as jumping-off points for student research; and
endnotes. Fountas & Pinnell Level Z+
From the first foot migration out of Africa to the Model T Ford,
hot air balloons, submarines, rickshaws, and moon rockets, humans
have combined imagination, daring, and scientific and technical
knowledge to improve existing vehicles or create new ones.
Geography, culture, and available technologies have all influenced
the development and use of vehicles in different parts of the
world, and human travel has, in turn, often had a profound
influence on society and the environment.
The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions-making
money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding fame, trading an
ordinary life for a glamorous one-but they all chose the lowest,
fastest road to get there. Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it
is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see
what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can
short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people
what they want to hear. Most scams operate on a personal scale, but
some have shaped the balance of world power, inspired explorers to
sail uncharted seas, derailed scientific progress, or caused
terrible massacres. A HISTORY OF AMBITION IN 50 HOAXES guides us
through a rogue's gallery of hustlers, liars, swindlers, imposters,
scammers, pretenders, and cheats. In Gale Eaton's wide-ranging
synthesis, the history of deception is a colorful tour, with
surprising insights behind every curtain. Fountas & Pinnell
Level Z+
Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team
that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana,
masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose. By
winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten
teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of
racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of
their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an
unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised
in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future
college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in
history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the
first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open
championship tournament--an integration they had forced with their
on-court prowess. From native Hoosier and award-winning author
Phillip Hoose comes this true story of a team up against impossible
odds, making a difference when it mattered most. An ALA Notable
Book of 2019 NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018 A 2018 Booklist Youth
Editors' Choice A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's
Literature Best Book of 2018 A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction
Book of 2018 An ALSC Notable Children's Book of 2019 A YALSA
Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee This title has Common Core
connections.
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German
occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders,
fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a
handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the
adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British
leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed
countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually
had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not
in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark
a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with
the recollections of Knud himself, here is Phil Hoose's inspiring
story of these young war heroes.
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Hey, Little Ant (Hardcover)
Phillip Hoose, Hannah Hoose; Illustrated by Debbie Tilley
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A song in which an ant pleads with the kid who is tempted to squish it.
The 5,000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have
treated his gallstones, Lyme disease, and hardening of the arteries
with the 61 tattoos that covered his body-most of which matched
acupuncture points-and the walnut-sized pieces of fungus he carried
on his belt. The herbal medicines chamomile and yarrow have been
found on 50,000-year-old teeth, and neatly bored holes in
prehistoric skulls show that Neolithic surgeons relieved pressure
on the brain (or attempted to release evil spirits) at least 10,000
years ago. From Mesopotamian pharmaceuticals and Ancient Greek
sleep therapy through midwifery, amputation, bloodletting,
Renaissance anatomy, bubonic plague, and cholera to the discovery
of germs, X-rays, DNA-based treatments and modern prosthetics, the
history of medicine is a wild ride through the history of
humankind.
The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions-making
money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding fame, trading an
ordinary life for a glamorous one-but they all chose the lowest,
fastest road to get there. Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it
is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see
what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can
short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people
what they want to hear. Most scams operate on a personal scale, but
some have shaped the balance of world power, inspired explorers to
sail uncharted seas, derailed scientific progress, or caused
terrible massacres. A HISTORY OF AMBITION IN 50 HOAXES guides us
through a rogue's gallery of hustlers, liars, swindlers, imposters,
scammers, pretenders, and cheats. In Gale Eaton's wide-ranging
synthesis, the history of deception is a colorful tour, with
surprising insights behind every curtain. Fountas & Pinnell
Level Z+
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