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Susan Campbell Bartoletti

21
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3.8
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4
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Harrisburg, United States
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This morning I scraped the hairy backs of our pigs and collected a good crop of long, black bristles.

— from Dear America

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#2

Growing Up in Coal Country

1996

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Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

#1

Dear America

4.0 (1)

Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings us the first new Dear America diary in years, taking readers through the attack on Pearl Harbor, the start of World War II, and the Japanese incarceration. With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II home front, Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear America series. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, America is finally unable to ignore the wars raging in Europe and Asia any longer. And one girl's entire life is about to change when everything she knows is turned on its head. After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, where her brother, a navy sailor, is stationed, Piper Davis begins chronicling her compelling journey through one of history's most tragic and unforgettable eras.

#3

Terrible Typhoid Mary

3.5 (2)

With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, provides a biography of Mary Mallon that goes beyond the typhoid scandal of her controversial life, and explores issues such as her treatment by medical and legal officials, human and constitutional rights, and the science of pathology. Discusses her later years, and her death in 1938.

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