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Fleeing the discrimination of the south, the Dixon family heads to Chicago whereupon Frances Dixon finds a job as the caretaker to an Italian family, in this latest addition to The Century Kids series.

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9780761316022 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: In 1927 the Dixons move from rural Georgia to Chicago, where African Americans have more opportunities, and there Lorraine meets a famous movie actress, and her little brother Marcus finds that his artistic talents are useful.

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Rocco's son, Tony, runs off to experience the events of the Great Depression firsthand, while Molly--who is competing in the Berlin Olympics--pays a visit to her cousin Jack who has married a Jewish girl.

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9780761316039 | Millbrook Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: In the summer of 1936, Tony runs away from his home above his family's Italian restaurant in Chicago, while in Berlin David is present at the Olympics and prepares to move to America.

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When his cousin Peggy is labeled a Communist sympathizer and her son's radio program is removed from the air, Matthew feels obliged to help her and so sets into motion a rock-and-roll plan to make things right once again.

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9780761316053 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: In the 1950s Matthew befriends a Negro boy who introduces him to the new music, and together they start a rock-and-roll band.

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While Chuck struggles to find a place to call his own amidst his family and dull boarding school, Sojie becomes involved in sit-ins in Alabama to actively show her beliefs on the racial issues of the times.

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9780761316060 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Inspired after meeting John F.

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America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.

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9780761316077 | Millbrook Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.

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The new inventions and gadgets of 1983, such as the personal computer, Swatch watch, and Rubik's Cube, don't distract Suzanne and her friends from confronting the owner of a factory that is dumping toxic chemicals into a nearby lake.

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9780761316084 | Millbrook Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: The new inventions and gadgets of 1983, such as the personal computer, Swatch watch, and Rubik's Cube, don't distract Suzanne and her friends from confronting the owner of a factory that is dumping toxic chemicals into a nearby lake.

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The Aldrich, Vivanti, and Dixon families gather to celebrate Nell and Rocco's one hundredth birthdays as the new century dawns and the specter of the Y2K bug threatens.

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9780761316091 | Millbrook Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: The Aldrich, Vivanti, and Dixon families gather to celebrate Nell and Rocco's one hundredth birthdays as the new century dawns and the specter of the Y2K bug threatens.

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A history of African Americans in the United States chronicles the experiences of many generations, from slavery through eras of struggle, and contributions to American culture

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9780195094602 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 20, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A history of African Americans in the United States chronicles the experiences of many generations, from slavery through eras of struggle, and contributions to American culture
9780195081282 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 20, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A history of African Americans in the United States chronicles the experiences of many generations, from slavery through eras of struggle, and contributions to American culture

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9780195124194 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 28, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A history of African Americans in the United States chronicles the experiences of many generations, from slavery through eras of struggle, and contributions to American culture
9789990055603 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $0.02

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9780613848251, titled "African American Family Album" | Turtleback Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: A history of African Americans in the United States chronicles the experiences of many generations, from slavery through eras of struggle, and contributions to American culture

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Presents biographies of some prominent sub-Saharan African people throughout history, including Piankhy, Ahmed Baba, Ann Nzinga, Cinque, Kip Keino, and Wole Soyinka

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9780811463782 | Heinemann/Raintree, January 1, 1993, cover price $27.11 | About this edition: Presents biographies of some prominent sub-Saharan African people throughout history, including Piankhy, Ahmed Baba, Ann Nzinga, Cinque, Kip Keino, and Wole Soyinka

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Highlights the notable events and personalities of the 1970s.

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9780531043226 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 1981, cover price $12.90 | About this edition: A graphic look at the Kent State shootings, the end of the Vietnam War, inflation, the women's movement, detente, movies, music, and the theater of the 1970s

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An account of World War I including its causes, campaigns and battles, outcome, peace treaty, and effects

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9780531011690 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1976, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: An account of World War I including its causes, campaigns and battles, outcome, peace treaty, and effects

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The global nature of World War II is described and illustrated with photographs and maps.

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9780531029114 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 1977, cover price $13.90 | About this edition: Text and photographs provide an account of the causes, major events, and leading military and political figures of the war

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Laura joins her Navy father in Hawaii in 1941, where an atmosphere of war runs high
By Cathie Bleck (illustrator), Carey-Greenberg Associates (corporate author), Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler

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9780382241567 | Silver Burdett Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Laura and her mother join her Navy father in Hawaii in 1941, where suspicion against the Japanese American residents runs high in an atmosphere of expectation that the United States and Japan will go to war.

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9780382243493 | Silver Burdett Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: Laura and her mother join her Navy father in Hawaii in 1941, where suspicion against the Japanese American residents runs high in an atmosphere of expectation that the United States and Japan will go to war.

A history of German immigrants in America draws on their own words, as recorded in diary entries, letters, and interviews, about the land they left and their experiences in America (view table of contents)

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9780195101720 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 27, 1997, cover price $250.00 | About this edition: A history of German immigrants in America draws on their own words, as recorded in diary entries, letters, and interviews, about the land they left and their experiences in America

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Product Description: Turn the pages of your family scrapbook or picture album and faces and memories leap out at you. Even if you never knew or don't remember some of your relatives, the snapshots and keepsakes make them familiar, and the old family stories never fail to bring a laugh and a warm memory...read more

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9780195124163 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 14, 1998, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Turn the pages of your family scrapbook or picture album and faces and memories leap out at you.

In Overton, Ohio, in the 1920s, Fran Parker and her family adjust to such modern inventions as the radio and the airplane, and Fran enters a radio contest.

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9780382241468 | Silver Burdett Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fran Parker enters a radio contest and wins a chance to fly in an airplane

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Drawing from many primary sources including John Smith's own writings and those of other colonists, gives an account of his life, first in England, then as one of the founders of the Jamestown colony, as well as when he was charged with mutiny on the ship to America.

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9780471485841 | Turner Pub Co, November 4, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Drawing from many primary sources including John Smith's own writings and those of other colonists, gives an account of his life, first in England, then as one of the founders of the Jamestown colony, as well as when he was charged with mutiny on the ship to America.

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9780470128206 | Turner Pub Co, April 20, 2007, cover price $15.95

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Provides a look at the experiences of Chinese immigrants, relating stories of their journey to America and their integration into a new society

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9780195091236 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 14, 1994, cover price $19.95 | also contains Dx/Rx: Lymphoma | About this edition: Provides a look at the experiences of Chinese immigrants, relating stories of their journey to America and their integration into a new society
9780195081305, titled "The Chinese-American Family Album" | Oxford Univ Pr, April 14, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides a look at the experiences of Chinese immigrants, relating stories of their journey to America and their integration into a new society

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9780195124217 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 28, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a look at the experiences of Chinese immigrants, relating stories of their journey to America and their integration into a new society

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9780613074780 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: Provides a look at the experiences of Chinese immigrants, relating stories of their journey to America and their integration into a new society

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Portraits of people prominent in Chinese civilization over a 3000-year period including Confucius, the Ban family, Empress Wu, Li Bo and Du Fu, Ma Yuan, Zheng He, Yuan Mei, Lin Xezu, and the Soong family

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9780811463751 | Heinemann/Raintree, January 1, 1993, cover price $27.11 | About this edition: Portraits of people prominent in Chinese civilization over a 3000-year period including Confucius, the Ban family, Empress Wu, Li Bo and Du Fu, Ma Yuan, Zheng He, Yuan Mei, Lin Xezu, and the Soong family

A biography of the Egyptian queen who gained and maintained power over her kingdom through her alliance with Julius Caesar and later Marc Antony.

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9780791010570 | Subsequent edition (Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 1989), cover price $9.95

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9780877545897 | Revised edition (Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 1986), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Egyptian queen who gained and maintained power over her kingdom through her alliance with Julius Caesar and later Marc Antony.

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Discusses how the teachings of Confucius evolved from a social order to a religion, describing its origins, beliefs, rituals, and its role in China and around the world.

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9780816057283 | Updated edition (Facts on File, July 1, 2004), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses how the teachings of Confucius evolved from a social order to a religion, describing its origins, beliefs, rituals, and its role in China and around the world.
9780816024452 | Facts on File, January 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Describes how the teachings of Confucius evolved from a social order to a religion, infusing all phases of Chinese life for 2000 years

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9781604131079 | 3 edition (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 2009), cover price $40.00

Product Description: "When you ask my sons where they are from they will answer, 'I'm Cuban, but I was born in McAllen, Texas.'"--Maria Luisa Salcines, born in Guantánamo, Cuba, who came to the United States in 1963. Between 1960 and 1995 over one million Cubans arrived in the United States--almost 10 percent of the island's population...read more

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9780195103403 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 10, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Interviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the Cuban American experience
9780195081329, titled "The Cuban American Family Album" | Oxford Univ Pr, October 10, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Interviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the Cuban American experience

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9780195124255, titled "The Cuban American Family Album" | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "When you ask my sons where they are from they will answer, 'I'm Cuban, but I was born in McAllen, Texas.

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9780613075701 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: "When you ask my sons where they are from they will answer, 'I'm Cuban, but I was born in McAllen, Texas.

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Through the experiences of the Aldriches, a famous family in American theatre, young readers can gain an understanding of what life was like during the first decade of the twentieth century.

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9780761316008 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: In the early years of the twentieth century, Peggy and her cousins experience the excitement of belonging to a family of famous actors as they prepare to open a new theater with a family production of an original play.

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

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9780613603843 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $14.45 | About this edition: In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

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