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| 1.The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book) by: Peter Sis August 21, 2007 |
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| We in the West often cannot believe,or rufuse to believe what it must have been like to live behind 'The Iron Curtain'.Surely we are told,those tales of repression are merely 'Mc Carthyite propaganda' and 'cold war nonsense'.For some strange reason the idea of a socio political system that murdered more than one hundred million of it's own people while enslaving over a billion more is just too much to face.Leave it to a 'mere childrens book' to show us a slice of life behind the iron curtain.Peter ... Read More: |
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| 2.Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin (Minimus) by: Barbara Bell January 28, 2000 |
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| I spent years studying Latin and wanted to introduce my children, who are 5 and 7, to the language. Minimus (book and cd) has my children talking to each other in Latin in less time than it took me to learn those first two declensions and first two conjugations all those years ago by the more traditional methods!!! -Another benefit of the book is that it illustrates parts of speech in a clear, simple,and fun manner. |
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| 3.Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by: Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun March 01, 2005 |
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| It is a good book, the stories are cruel, but not so detailed. Kids need to know about what happened, and this is a good way, but definitely not for kids under sixth grade.
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| 4.Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by: Carl E. Schorske December 12, 1980 |
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| We are drawn to Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century because of Adolf Hitler, as much as or more than by its own curious modes of art, music, architecture, science, literature, city design and medicine. What a strange brew it was!
Cultural historian Schorske has nothing to say about science or medicine or Hitler, and little enough about the setting of his chosen few subjects, despite the word "politics" in the subtitle. The Germans and German Jews of Wien were a small fraction of the ... Read More: |
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| 5.Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti April 01, 2005 |
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| I cannot say enough about how impressed I was by this book. For students in Jr High and up, this is an incredible resource on teenage life in Nazi Germany. This book will bring WWII to life for them in a dramatic and immediate way.
The book follows many different "normal" teens through these years, discussing which options were available to each of them and what the results were of the decisions they made. The pictures and first hand accounts bring to life a period of time that could otherwise ... Read More: |
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| 6.Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by: Ronald Spector October 12, 1985 |
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Anyone seeking a thorough, well-written and objective account of the U.S. war against Japan should add Ronald Spector's "Eagle Against the Sun'' to their reading list. Spector tackles with obvious verve a difficult task - compressing a four-year war that stretched from the Aleutians to India into 560 pages. You have to admire a historian who uses exclamation marks out of sheer enthusiasm. As someone who is more or less a novice on the Pacific War, several things struck me: I was surprised by the speed with which ... Read More: |
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| 7.The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome by: Peter Connolly, Hazel Dodge May 18, 2000 |
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| Most books with really good illustrations are usually a little weak in the next. Not The Ancient City. The excellent text in this book is completmented by beautiful illustrations of what is being told. |
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| 8.Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? by: Jean Fritz September 09, 1996 |
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| Great little book. Both the writing and illustrations work really well. Humerous and informative. My kids(10 and 8) really enjoyed this book. As did I. An intelligent way to make history fun for younger readers. |
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| 9.Viking Tales (Yesterday's Classics) by: Jennie Hall November 17, 2005 |
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| This book has been an interesting read for us because it has given rise to many discussions about the Vikings and their values/beliefs. It is full of tales about their lifestyle, which was often violent and full of hardship. To give a few specifics....Harald (the king) has a "thrall" which is essentially a slave/servant with an iron collar banded around his neck, and there is much talk of the Viking Gods and their view of "heaven." I find it a fascinating book in many regards, but not always the easiest or most captivating reading for my seven ... Read More: |
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| 10.The Story of Europe from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation (Yesterday's Classics) by: H. E. Marshall August 16, 2006 |
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| This book has been an interesting read for us because it has given rise to many discussions about the Vikings and their values/beliefs. It is full of tales about their lifestyle, which was often violent and full of hardship. To give a few specifics....Harald (the king) has a "thrall" which is essentially a slave/servant with an iron collar banded around his neck, and there is much talk of the Viking Gods and their view of "heaven." I find it a fascinating book in many regards, but not always the easiest or most captivating reading for my seven ... Read More: |
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