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Heather Morris’s Three Sisters tells a powerful, true story of survival, sisterhood, and courage during the Holocaust. Through the love between three sisters, readers witness the strength it takes to endure the darkest of times and find hope beyond the pain.
This fast paced and emotionally resonant novel follows a middle schooler discovering his strength on and off the track. A powerful and relatable story that keeps readers turning the pages.
Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language.
In 1965, an American rabbi travels to the Soviet Union to investigate reports of persecution of the Jewish community. Moscow welcomes him as a guest—but provides a strict schedule he and the rest of his group must follow. One afternoon, the rabbi slips away.
Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem to do much more than babble around his crush. Nothing too weird. Oh! Except, just yesterday, he used his spidey superpowers to save the world (no biggie) from an evil mastermind called The Warden.