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Whatever Happened to The Pony Express
by Kay, Verla
A family's cross-country communication changes during the development and demise of the Pony Express. Told in rhyme.
- Topic 19th-Century History
- Age Groups Preschool, Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010, New York, NY
Pueblo Boy Growing up in Two Worlds
by Keegan, Marcia
A young boy learns the ways of his Native American family as well as growing up with the traditions of a typical American child.
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Topics
Native American History,
20th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Clear Light Publishers, 2000, Sante Fe, NM
Pueblo Girls: Growing up in Two Worlds
by Keegan, Marcia
Two sisters are raised between different worlds and they must balance between two languages and religions.
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Topics
Native American History,
Women's History,
20th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Treasure Chest Books, 1999, Tucson, AZ
Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki
Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps more bearable for many Japanese Americans. This first-person narrative candidly exposes the hardships that Japanese Americans experienced before, during, and after internment.
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Topics
Asian Pacific American History,
20th-Century History - Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Fiction
- Award Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
- Publisher Lee & Low Books, Inc., 1993, New York, NY
Walt Whitman: Words for America
by Kerley, Barbara
A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
- Topic 19th-Century History
- Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Scholastic, 2004, New York, NY
Award Key
- Caldecott Medal
- Most distinguished American picture book for children (annually).
- Newberry Medal
- Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children (annually).
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Distinguished books by authors and illustrators of African descent which promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream (annually).
- Golden Kite Award
- Outstanding examples of text, illustration, fiction and nonfiction (four awards annually).
- Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
- Outstanding work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher set in the New World.
