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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 3rd Grade
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Children's Book Battles: 3rd Grade
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Description
This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right.
Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate
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Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
In this history of "Polonia"--The community of Polish immigrants and their descendants residing in America - James S. Pula defines what it has meant to be Polish in America since the first large groups of Poles left the Old Country - what they called Stary Kraj - for the New more than 150 years ago. The Polish American community has long been identified with three characteristics that the early immigrants brought with them to America, writes Pula:...
Author
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
In an appealing manner, Polish Immigrants describes early immigration, the terrible conditions in Poland, the effect of inducements from America, and the changing conditions in the United States and their effect on Polish Americans. The many problems new arrivals faced are explored and the group's history is then traced. Concluding with a look at Polish Americans in the present day, this book covers recent immigration numbers, census data on Americans...
7) Rodzina
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
9) Rodzina
Author
Publisher
EntreLIbros
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Después de sobrevivir unos meses en las calles de Chicago, Rodzina, una niña inmigrante de Polonia, se encuentra en el tren que la lleva junta con otros huérfanos hacia el oeste donde muchos trabaján sin pago.
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
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