[PDF] Girls Survive eBook

Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496583922

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In the late summer and early fall of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother, and best friend, Miriam, must navigate the increasing pressure placed on the Jewish population in Frankfurt, Germany. Ruth grows more worried by the day. Her father's stationery store is shut down; she and Miriam are belittled on the street; their school is closed. Then one night in November, the family's apartment is broken into. Ruth's father is dragged into the square and arrested, along with hundreds of other Jewish men. Ruth, her family, her friends, and her community struggle to survive the fiery night and the terrifying, uncertain future ahead of them. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story takes readers to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, one of history's most important moments.

Author : Natasha Deen
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2021
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1515883329

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The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Author : Mayumi Shimose Poe
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496581938

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In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days are filled with swimming in the Hawaiian sea, going to school, and helping watch her younger siblings. But on December 7, everything changes when she experiences an act of warÑthe bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the United States enters World War II, Alice's father is sent to a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story takes readers to one of history's most important moments.

Author : Karen Bokram
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545202353

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Welcome to middle school. These few years can be full of surprises. Some of them may be awesome while others may be a bit scary, but not to worry: This book has answers to all of the questions every middle school girl wonders about. Full color.

Author : Nikki Shannon Smith
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496583841

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In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who are being moved from Richmond further south. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Author : Julie Gilbert
Publisher : Girls Survive
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1515883345

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In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a perilous journey to the New World. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Author : Nikki Shannon Smith
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496578554

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Thirteen-year-old Noelle feels like the luckiest girl in the world to be cruising the Atlantic aboard the famed Titanic. The trip is made even better by her new friend, Pauline, a girl who is traveling with her father to live in America. The girls spend the first days of the journey exploring, but on the fifth night, Noelle awakes to a sinking ship. Women and children will be rescued first, and Noelle realizes motherless Pauline will be left all alone. Despite her parents' wishes, Noelle breaks away from her family to find and help her friend. Nonfiction information, a gloassary, and reader response questions make up the back matter of this Girls Survive story.

Author : Andrea L. Rogers
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496587146

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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.

Author : Julie Gilbert
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 149658712X

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Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it is not certain who will survive.

Author : Julie Gilbert
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496596897

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In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.