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Rose under fire
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrèuck, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
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My Grandmother, the Horn Book, and Me
Wein shares her inspiration of becoming a children's author. When she was seven years old, her Pennsylvanian grandmother sent her a new book every month. When Beverly Cleary's Ellen Tebbits arrived, she read it in a single afternoon. When she headed to Yale at seventeen, she's already working on what would become her first published novel, The Winter Prince. Outside classes, eager to explore the hottest new children's books, she read The Horn Book Magazine in the New Haven Free Public Library. She had seen Horn Book reviews and accolades on the backs of her own favorites, and she considered the Magazine to be the first and last word in children's literature.
Trade Publication Article
Code name Verity
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the \"night witches\"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war. This is the story of Raskova's three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky. Packed with black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the inspiring true story of a group of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed even amid the destruction of war.
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Mystery in a House
While there are few stories of the \"haunted house\" that appear as folktale types (with the exception of Aarne/Thompson 307B, \"The Conquered Ghost,\" and 1160, \"The Ogre in the Haunted Castle\"), nevertheless the haunted house and its inhabitants generate motifs that occur throughout folklore and children's literature. If the reader will accept that a recurring story about a house, usually haunted, operating as a link to a character's past and family, is a type by this definition (though not necessarily a folk-tale type), it is possible to see that specific works of literature for children echo and emphasize their ancestral folk legends and fairy tales.
Journal Article
The pearl thief
Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime.
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Stateless
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
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The Heart-Stopping, Nerve-Shredding Race to Be America’s Deadliest Combat Pilot
“Race of Aces,” John Bruning’s action-fueled World War II narrative, follows the elite fighter pilots who competed to shoot down the most enemy planes.
Newspaper Article