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      Russell Freedman

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      Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America

      Russell Freedman

      To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the…

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      Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

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      Newbery Medal winner Russell Freedman recounts Abraham Lincoln’s brief friendship with African American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of race relations and…

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      War to End All Wars: World War I

      Russell Freedman

      In this clear and authoritative account, Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I, showing the ways in which the seeds of…

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      Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion

      Russell Freedman

      Russell Freedman’s stunning biography of an Olympic gold medalist and athlete extraordinaire who paved the way for female athletes worldwide.

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      Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain

      Russell Freedman

      From Newbery award winner Russell Freedman comes an account of the other Ellis Island –Angel Island, California, the entry point for one million Asian immigrants in the early 20th century.

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      The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

      Russell Freedman

      This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing on Anderson’s…

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      Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas

      Russell Freedman

      Many generations of American schoolchildren were taught that Columbus discovered America, and a holiday reminds us every October. But historical investigation in recent years has shown us otherwise. There is…

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      Give Me Liberty!: The Story of the Declaration of Independence

      Russell Freedman

      Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.

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      Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

      Russell Freedman

      In his signature prose, Freedman draws on personal stories and historical accounts to provide a dramatic overview of how the 381-day resistance to segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, spearheaded the…

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      Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America

      Russell Freedman

      For the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting right from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman has written a riveting account of this pivotal event in…

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      Vietnam: A History of the War

      Russell Freedman

      Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and controversial of America’s wars. Describing how a superpower caught up in the 1950s cold war politics…

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      Vietnam

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      A comprehensive overview of one of the most controversial wars in America’s history written by masterful children’s historian and Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman.

      With prose that is clear, concise, and…

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      Washington at Valley Forge

      Russell Freedman

      Washington’s army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army’s supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But…

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      Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

      Russell Freedman

      In 1723, Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless 17-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped…

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      Lafayette and the American Revolution

      Russell Freedman

      Examines the role of the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution, discussing how the nineteen-year-old defied the king of France to join the fight for liberty in the United…

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      Lincoln: A Photobiography

      Russell Freedman

      Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

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      Lincoln: A Photobiography

      Russell Freedman

      Winner of the 1988 John Newbery Medal, this is a study of the life of Abraham Lincoln in which the text is accompanied by an extensive collection of photographs. The…

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      Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      Russell Freedman

      Traces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, and presidency to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.

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      Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

      Russell Freedman

      The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt told by an award-winning author traces the life of the former first lady, from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White…

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      Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille

      Russell Freedman

      A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind…

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      Children of the Great Depression

      Russell Freedman

      Drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts, and richly illustrated with classic archival photographs, this book by one of the most celebrated authors of nonfiction for children places the…

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      Immigrant Kids

      Russell Freedman

      A refreshingly un-woeful introduction to the experience of being a young urban immigrant around the turn of the century… . photos make the scenes real and recollections of immigrant childhoods…

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      The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

      Russell Freedman

      The story of the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight, and the men behind it.

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      The Boston Tea Party

      Russell Freedman

      Recounts the colonists’ stand to control their own destinies, detailing the protest meetings at Old South Church, the defiant act of dumping the tea into the harbor, and the reaction…

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      The Boston Tea Party

      Russell Freedman

      An opulently illustrated depiction of the pivotal historical event, related in riveting prose by a Newberry Medalist. Includes source notes, bibliography, time line, afterword, historical map, and index.

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      The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

      Russell Freedman,Russell Freedman,Wilbur Wright

      Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

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      Holiday House: The First Sixty-Five Years

      Russell Freedman,Barbara Elleman

      The story of an independent publisher of children’s books. Illustrations, list of publications, bibliography, index.

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      The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

      The essential resource on strategy and the making of the modern world

      The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the…

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      Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor

      Russell Freedman

      Hine, an investigative reporter for the National Child Labor Committee, took photographs that provided dramatic visual evidence that the U.S. needed laws against child labor. Features Hines’ groundbreaking photos, along…

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      The Voice That Challenged a Nation Lib/E: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

      Russell Freedman

      2005 Sibert Medal Winner A 2005 Newbery Honor Book A voice like yours, celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, is heard once in a hundred years. This insightful…

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      We Will Not Be Silent

      Russell Freedman,Laura Williams McCaffrey

      Russell Freedman tells the story of Hans Scholl and his sister. They belonged to Hitler Youth as children. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White…

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      Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor

      Russell Freedman,Lewis Wickes Hine

      Hine, an investigative reporter for the National Child Labor Committee, took photographs that provided dramatic visual evidence that the U.S. needed laws against child labor. Features Hines’ groundbreaking photos, along…

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      Dynasty: Auerbach, Cousy, Havlicek, Russell, And The Rise Of The Boston Celtics

      Lew Freedman

      The behind-the-scenes story of one of professional basketball’s most respected and beloved teams.

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