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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the fashion designer, from her early life of poverty, to her successes in the Paris fashion world, her collaboration with well-known artists of her day, and the influence of her innovative designs on later fashion.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1958, in Linz, Austria, demonstrators interrupted a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, claiming that Anne Frank never existed. Determined to prove otherwise, Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, set out to find the Gestapo officer who arrested the Franks years before.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Honors Mary Seacole's life, from her childhood in Kingston, Jamaica, and her encounters with racist Americans to her treatment of cholera patients in Panama and her bitter run-in with Florence Nightingale, who declined to work with her in Crimea becauseshe wasn't white. But Mary Seacole knew that the sick and wounded needed her compassion and care, and despite all obstacles, she answered the call to help them"--
The life of pioneering Jamaican nurse...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
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