The controversial first–person account of a 25–year–old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12–year–old boy. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped–up on drugs and wielding AK–47s. Paperback. 230 pages Extended Description
ALIVE IN THE DEATH ZONE: Mount Everest Survival, Lincoln Hall's story of climbing the world's highest mountain, being left for dead near the summit and his subsequent return to life and safety, is an incredible and exciting adventure that will inspire anyone who reads it. It's a story of survival against all odds using Shortlisted for 2009 CBCA Book of the Year Award - Eve Pownall Award for Information Books . Paperback Extended Description
The life story of Anne Frank set chronologically against the significant events of the Holocaust, e.g. Kristallnacht, the Kindertransports and D-Day. Spanning Anne's short life from 1929 to 1945, and the early rise of Hitler to the liberation of the concentration camps, this highly moving account examines both the fate of the Frank family and the wider picture of the Holocaust. Extended Description
The Definitive Edition. 352 Pages
Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Extended Description
THE OBAMAS - FIRST FAMILY OF HOPE series
~ Barack is the story of a man of humble beginnings, the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, Africa, and the extraordinary journey he took on his way to the presidency.
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A British perspective on Barack Obama
With every page bursting with facts and photos, read about Barack Obama's childhood days, his rise to the top job in the world and how he plans to change America and the world, for the better.
Your students have read about historical U.S. figures in school textbooks. But right now they're living in the midst of history in the making as they watch a man with an unlikely story become one of the most important people in American politics today. Paperback 142 pages Extended Description
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