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(0)Carla Killough McClafferty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
120 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Veteran children's author McClafferty takes a look at the life of George Washington by chronicling the fascinating process of creating life-sized statues of Washington using the latest modeling techniques.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1150L
Physical Desc
x, 158 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. The life of the first president has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people of color he owned--the people who sustained his plantation and were buried in unmarked graves there--have not. Using fascinating primary source material and photographs of historical artifacts, author Carla Killough McClafferty sheds light on the lives of several of the men and women enslaved...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in the rescue of more than 2,000 refugees, including novelist Heinrich Mann and artist Marc Chagall.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
