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Lexile Measure
1340L
Summary
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from...
2) White Indian
Author
Series
White Indian volume 1
Summary
Renno, an English baby, is reared by the Senecas to become a great warrior. His destiny lies in bridging the world between the mighty Seneca nation and the struggling English colonists.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Summary
Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation.
Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the 14th century. This message not only succeeded in uniting...
Pub. Date
c2012
Summary
A uniquely unscripted, insider account of Kennedy and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Features extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings and a foreword by Caroline Kennedy.
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Series
Rounder kids CD volume 8001
Pub. Date
p1996
Summary
Peggy and Mike Seeger sing this set of traditional tunes for kids which were taken from their mother's collection of 94 songs in the 1940's.
10) Goodnight songs
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Summary
A collection of twelve lullabies, illustrated by contemporary, award-winning artists including Jonathan Bean, Sophie Blackall, Renata Liwska, and Dan Yaccarino.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Summary
At three years of age Vinh Chung and his family of ten fled communist Vietnam. As legendary 'boat people' they were attacked twice by Thai pirates and left for dead. A World Vision mercy ship stumbled across them and rescued them, relocating them to the tough frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they faced poverty, ethnic discrimination, and a language barrier. The Chung family's inspirational story, as told by Vinh Chung, offers fascinating...