Fourth-grader Jillian LOVES math! It’s her favorite subject and she is good at it too. But it’s the early 1970’s in America. When Jillian goes to sign her name on the Math Club sign-up sheet, she is met with snickering and jeers. A girl in the boys’ club? Maybe she doesn’t belong.
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Gordy and his family live in Detroit, Michigan, the heart of the United States automobile industry. Every Friday night after coming home from work at one of the plants, Gordy’s father teaches him how to box. Their hero is the famous American boxer Joe Louis, who grew up in Detroit.
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In 1918, a deadly influenza pandemic was sweeping across America. But in the tenement apartments of New York City’s Lower East Side, one young girl is determined to keep her family safe.
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A touching story of a Lenni Lenape boy standing on the cusp of childhood and moving into manhood just before his people’s lives are changed forever.
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Gettysburg, July 1863: Union and Confederate troops arrive, ready to face off. The stage is set for what becomes one of the pivotal battles of the Civil War.
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In the fall of 1777, Philadelphia sat twitching like a nervous mouse. The British were going to attack, but no one knew where or when.
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The Battles contains three stories focusing on key American wars: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.
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